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Elon Musk accompanies Trump at the rally to commemorate the site of the first assassination attempt

Elon Musk accompanies Trump at the rally to commemorate the site of the first assassination attempt

Elon Musk will accompany Donald Trump at his rally on Saturday in Butler, the Pennsylvania town where the Republican presidential candidate survived an assassination attempt earlier this year.

“I will be there to support!” Musk wrote on his social platform X on Thursday in a retweet about Trump’s own promotion of the rally. The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla will be among the special guests, Trump’s campaign team confirmed Friday.

The event will be the first time the billionaire businessman has appeared publicly at a campaign rally for the former president since endorsing him. The July confirmation came immediately after the assassination attempt, with Musk writing on X: “I fully support President Trump and hope for his speedy recovery.”

Musk has increased his support for Trump in recent months and has become more personally involved in politics – even agreeing to lead a government efficiency commission if Trump is re-elected.

He also launched a super PAC to support the Republican candidate, who spent heavily on turnout efforts in the final months of the campaign.

Saturday’s rally is being held on the same property where a gunman’s bullets grazed Trump’s right ear and killed his supporter Corey Comperatore. Several other people were injured in the shooting.

The campaign said several members of Comperatore’s family, as well as other participants and first responders from the July rally, will join Trump at the farm show grounds on Saturday.

Also appearing with the former president will be his vice president, Ohio Republican Sen. JD Vance, his son Eric Trump, his daughter-in-law and RNC co-chair Lara Trump, and several Pennsylvania lawmakers and sheriffs, the campaign said.