Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of a number of corporations, claims Donald Trump will win the 2024 presidential election if the previous president is indicted. The remark comes as Trump claims he will likely be arrested on Tuesday, a declare that hasn’t been verified by any of the workplaces at the moment investigating Trump for a protracted record of crimes he dedicated over the previous seven years.

“If this occurs, Trump will likely be re-elected in a landslide victory,” Musk wrote on Twitter on Saturday morning.

Musk was replying to a tweet that claimed Trump could possibly be handcuffed if he actually is arrested this coming week. Information first broke on Friday that Trump could possibly be indicted as quickly as early this week by Manhattan prosecutors over a hush cash cost the previous president allegedly made to grownup movie star Stormy Daniels as a candidate within the 2016 presidential election.

Trump, a continued risk to the protection and safety of the U.S., has denied any affair with Daniels, although his former “fixer” Michael Cohen pleaded responsible to creating the cost of $130,000 to Daniels in violation of marketing campaign finance guidelines. The examine even had Trump’s signature, and that wasn’t the one cost in weeks main as much as the 2016 election to has drawn the eye of investigators. Playboy mannequin Karen McDougal additionally obtained a cost of $150,000 from the Nationwide Enquirer to maintain an alleged affair with Trump from turning into public, in line with the Related Press. The cost was often called a “catch and kill” effort, allegedly to learn Trump, the place a writer pays for the unique on a narrative however doesn’t finally publish the story to maintain the underlying story quiet.

Musk and Trump have butted heads over a variety of points over time, and whereas Musk has lately supported conservative candidates within the 2022 midterm elections, the billionaire CEO of Tesla isn’t precisely a Trump fan—which is why it’s a little bit odd for Musk to so emphatically declare Trump might win once more. Trump’s help has hovered round 30% of People since his try and cease the certification of the 2020 election on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

For his half, Trump has been desperately attempting to get his supporters to “protest” what he says is a political witchhunt. Trump despatched a number of messages on his social media platform Reality Social on Saturday claiming any potential prosecution is simply politically motivated.

“OUR NATION IS NOW THIRD WORLD & DYING. THE AMERICAN DREAM IS DEAD! THE RADICAL LEFT ANARCHISTS HAVE STOLLEN [sic] OUR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, AND WITH IT, THE HEART OF OUR OUR COUNTRY. AMERICAN PATRIOTS ARE BEING ARRESTED & HELD IN CAPTIVITY LIKE ANIMALS, WHILE CRIMINALS & LEFTIST THUGS ARE ALLOWED TO ROAM THE STREETS, KILLING & BURNING WITH NO RETRIBUTION. MILLIONS ARE FLOODING THROUGH OUR OPEN BOARDERS [sic], MANY FROM PRISONS & MENTAL INSTITUTIONS. CRIME & INFLATION ARE DESTROYING OUR VERY WAY OF LIFE…” Trump wrote on Reality Social in simply one in all his weird screeds.

Trump’s all-caps messages included many misspellings and are available off as utterly unhinged, although solely time will inform in the event that they get his supporters to aim one other coup, simply as he directed a violent mob to storm the U.S. Capitol.