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Robert Tait in Washington

Giggling Elon Musk revisits ‘joke’ about Kamala Harris assassination

a man in a baseball cap gestures to a crowd
Elon Musk leaves Donald Trump’s rally at the Bulter Farm Show grounds for a rally on Saturday. Photograph: Archie Carpenter/UPI/Rex/Shutterstock

Elon Musk has said it would be “pointless” to try to kill Kamala Harris weeks after a pressure campaign led to him to delete a social media post expressing surprise that no one had tried to assassinate the vice-president or Joe Biden.

The Tesla and Space X entrepreneur re-entered the murky waters of political assassinations in a web video interview with the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson which Musk then posted on the X platform that he owns.

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