After the alleged attack on a Magdeburg Christmas market, tech billionaire Elon Musk On his platform X, Chancellor Scholz was verbally attacked. “Scholz should resign immediately,” Musk wrote on his online service X in a series of postings about what happened in Magdeburg. He added: “incompetent fool” (e.g.: incompetent fool). Musk also shared a user's comment that called the incident a direct result of unregulated “mass immigration.”
The Tesla founder and richest man in the world chose a completely different reaction than many politicians at home and abroad who had expressed their dismay and sympathy, including Vice President-elect JD Vance.
The alleged attack took place on Friday evening Magdeburg
According to authorities, at least two people were killed and at least 60 others were injured. The police said they arrested a doctor from Saudi Arabia who had been living in Germany since 2006 as the suspected perpetrator.
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The comment about Magdeburg came after Musk had already caused irritation in Berlin that morning when he posted that only the AfD could save Germany. The entrepreneur who was chosen by the future US President Donald Trump was made a government advisor, has been commenting on the policies of the US government and various governments in Europe via X for some time now.
Most recently, he pledged his support to the right-wing populist British party Reform UK and Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage. For his announcements, Musk mostly uses the online service that he bought two years ago to spread his anti-migrant messages and conspiracy stories worldwide.
Trump had commissioned Musk to act as an external advisor to the government to drastically cut government spending and personnel. The alliance between the future president and the head of the Tesla and SpaceX companies is causing criticism for the associated conflicts of interest.
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren recently called on Trump to be clearer about the controversial tech billionaire's role in the future US government. In a letter to Trump, the senator from the state of Massachusetts criticized Musk for de facto taking on the role of an “unofficial co-president.”
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