Elon Musk: National Security Risk

<![CDATA[Elon Musk has been called many things since his meteoric rise to fame and fortune in the late 1990s. Tech mogul, entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, and innovator would all fit comfortably on his business card. But when you look at Elon Musk today, would the phrase "national security risk" jump to mind? That was the case with Andrew Couts at Wired Magazine this week, but Couts isn't suggesting that Musk is selling our government's high-tech secrets to the Chinese or the Russians. Nor is he exporting weapons to our adversaries. Instead, Couts is declaring that Elon presents a risk to national security because of a joke that he made in the wake of the recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump's life in Florida. He wasn't making fun of Trump for being at risk, however. Someone on Twitter posed the question of why someone would want to kill Trump. Musk responded in a (now deleted) post by pointing out that nobody seems to be trying to kill Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. After being called out on his comment, Musk responded by describing it simply as a "joke that fell flat." That doesn't seem to be satisfying anyone thus far.]]>