Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump sat down for a live conversation with X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk, hours after returning to the platform for only the second time in three-and-a-half years.
The discussion began on X Spaces 42 minutes after its scheduled start time at 8:00 p.m. ET. Musk attributed the delay to a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on X’s servers which “saturated hundreds of gigabits of data.”
After the initial technical difficulties were finally resolved, the in-platform “Space” where the interview was held became by far the largest in the history of the website and the first to surpass a million live listeners.
Musk emphasized that his virtual sit-down with Trump was a conversation as opposed to an “adversarial interview.”
The billionaire businessman – who also heads Tesla and SpaceX – said that the conversation with the former president was “aimed at open-minded independent voters” who were “just trying to make up their minds.”
Widely considered to be part of the political center, Musk announced he was endorsing Trump in November’s election about a half-hour after the former president was injured in a failed assassination attempt on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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“Your actions after that assassination attempt were inspiring,” Musk told Trump at the beginning of their conversation. “The President of the United States represents America, and that is America. That is strength under fire. That is part of the reason why I was excited to endorse you.”
“You can’t fake bravery,” Musk later said.
Trump told the X owner that he “knew immediately” the object that hit him was a bullet, and it was a “miracle” that he turned his head away from the trajectory of the fire just at the moment when the shot rang out.
“For those people that don’t believe in God, I think we got to all to start thinking about that,” the 45th president said. “I’m a believer, now I’m more of a believer.”
Trump indicated that he will, as previously reported, return to Butler for a rally in October.
“We’re going back to Butler,” he told Musk. “I think I’ll probably start by saying, ‘As I was saying prior to being so horribly interrupted…’”
For more on the interview, click here.
LifeNews Note: Joshua Mercer writes for CatholicVote, where this column originally appeared.
