Donald Trump’s criptocurrency initiative on the election trail: The case of the attempted murder of the US Secretary of State Arman Khan

Donald Trump spoke publicly about the attempt to kill the US Secret Service agent in a social media interview.

The interview focused on his sons’ new criptocurrency initiative and meandered to a number of Trump’s typical campaign trail talking points.

He explained that the agent from the Secret Service spotted the barrel of a gun in the bushes and started shooting. He went on to describe the apprehension of the alleged gunman, who authorities said didn’t fire his gun.

In June, Trump was the target of an assassination attempt. He said the attempt on Sunday was a better result, because there wasn’t a loss of life, unlike in June where one man died and two others were injured.

Trump said that Biden couldn’t have been nicer. Trump did heavily criticize the policies of the Biden administration, as well as Biden and Vice President Harris personally, as is typical in his campaign appearances.

The “Rhetoric” of Biden and Harris was blamed by Trump in an interview with Fox News. In a post on X, he called Harris “hateful.”

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His running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, repeated that on the campaign trail Monday night at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Georgia Victory dinner in Atlanta.

Two people tried to kill Donald trump in the last couple of months, but no one has tried to kill Ms. Harris in the last few months. “I would say that is enough evidence that the left needs to tone down the rhetoric, and cut this nonsense out.”

Musk’s role as a major contractor for the US Department of Defense and NASA gets more and more difficult. The National-republic Office, which oversees US spy satellites, has a $1.8 billion contract signed with the company, according to the report. The US Space Force also signed a $70 million contract late last year with SpaceX to build out military-grade low-earth-orbit satellite capabilities. The Starlink satellite internet wing is in communication with the US Navy.

The incident was the latest in a long line of increasingly incendiary political posts from Musk, whose substantial defense contracts with the US government may give him access to highly sensitive information even while he makes potential threats against the sitting commander in chief. The risk of Musk inspiring more political violence is a more pressing one that he has posed.

“In my experience, the Secret Service would take such a comment very seriously,” says Michael German, a former FBI special agent and a liberty and national security fellow at NYU School of Law’s Brennan Center for Justice. “Typically, agents would go out and interview the subject to ensure that there wasn’t an existing threat, and to make the subject aware that the agency takes such statements seriously.”

The United States Secret Service declined WIRED’s request to comment on Musk’s post. “We can say, however, that the Secret Service investigates all threats related to our protectees,” USSS spokesperson Nate Herring tells WIRED.