Days after Elon Musk purchased Twitter and claimed it would not become a “free-for-all hellscape” under his watch, the World’s Richest Man/Tesla and SpaceX CEO/free-speech absolutist took to his new media toy to counter a tweet by Hillary Clinton that blasts the Republican Party for “creating a toxic environment that lays the groundwork for violence against politicians” (per theDaily Beast). The 2016 Democratic presidential candidate was commenting on last Friday’s attack of Paul Pelosi, 82, husband to the House speaker, at their San Francisco home. 

San Francisco Police Chief William Scott told reporters last Friday that Bay Area resident David DePape, 42, would be charged with attempted homicide, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, burglary and “several other additional felonies.” DePape, who has spread right-wing and QAnon conspiracy theories online according to the Daily Beast, allegedly shouted “Where is Nancy? Where is Nancy?” during the attack (Rep. Pelosi (D) was in Washington, DC at the time). 

But that didn’t stop Twitter’s new owner from tweeting a response to Clinton’s tweet: “There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye.” He then repeated a conspiracy theory completely devoid of any facts that involve Paul Pelosi and a male sex worker, which first appeared in a Santa Monica-based far-right “news” website whose name we won’t repeat here. 

Musk deleted his tweet “more than six hours” after it first appeared, according to Daily Beast, though not before it had been retweeted “thousands and thousands of times.” 

Threat to Both Parties: Congress members last week issued new warnings about their personal security last week. 

“Somebody is going to die,” Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) told Axios. But the threats, which have affected local election officials across the country as well as state and federal officials from both major parties. In 2017, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) suffered life-threatening injuries from a gunman during practice for a congressional softball game and last June an armed man was arrested near Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home in the Washington, D.C. metro area.

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