Billionaire X proprietor Elon Musk has turn out to be certainly one of former President Donald Trump’s most outstanding supporters. Since Musk endorsed Trump in July, he has gone out of his solution to help his candidacy. Musk has donated greater than $100 million to his Trump-supporting Americas PAC; crossed the swing state of Pennsylvania holding city halls; spoke at Trump rallies in Butler, Pennsylvania, and New York City; hosted Trump for an interview about X; and threw the complete weight of the social media platform he owned into help of Trump’s presidential candidacy.
But with simply days to go till the polls opened, Musk spent the weekend posting on X largely a couple of squirrel.
Specifically, Peanut, an orphaned pet squirrel adopted by New York resident Mark Longo. Longo’s movies with Peanut have garnered a whole bunch of hundreds of views on TikTook and Instagram. Longo had additionally adopted a pet raccoon named Fred. But on October 30, in accordance with the Associated pressLocal authorities officers responded to nameless complaints in regards to the animals, and each had been euthanized after the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) eliminated them from Longo’s dwelling.
“On October 30, DEC seized a raccoon and a squirrel that shared a residence with people, making a danger of human publicity to rabies. Additionally, one individual concerned within the investigation was bitten by the squirrel,” the DEC mentioned in a press release. “To take a look at for rabies, each animals had been euthanized.”
Longo posted the incident on Instagram and it gained traction on social media over the weekend. A GoFundMe marketing campaign for Longo titled “Demanding Justice for Peanut the Squirrel and NYSDEC Reform” has at present raised greater than $150,000.
Musk seized on the story, posting or reposting the incident on X at the least 20 occasions between Saturday and Sunday, calling it an instance of presidency overreach, significantly by Democratic-led governments.
“The authorities shouldn’t be allowed to interrupt into your private home and kill your pet! It’s a tousled factor,” Musk mentioned in a single article which garnered 23.7 million views. “Even whether it is unlawful to have a squirrel as a pet (which it should not be), why kill PNut as a substitute of simply releasing it into the forest!?” In one other, which has garnered greater than 35 million views, he asked“Why is the Democratic Party so merciless?”
