'Am I missing something or is he confessing to yet another (expletive) crime?!' she posted on X.
Donald Trump created a bit of a social media stir and even had a congresswoman asking exactly what he meant, with a comment he had about Elon Musk during his “Make America Great Again Victory Rally,” on Sunday.
On the eve of his inauguration, Trump praised Musk’s work with SpaceX before quickly moving into the work that he did on the campaign trail.
“And then he journeyed to Pennsylvania, where he spent like a month and a half campaigning for me in Pennsylvania,” Trump said. “And he’s a popular guy. And he was very effective. And he knows those computers better than anybody.”
The next couple of sentences … well, they are the ones that had folks talking.
“All those computers,” Trump continued. “Those vote counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide. So it was pretty good. It’s pretty good.”
Jasmine Crockett, a Democratic congresswoman from Texas, shared the clip from Trump’s speech and questioned just exactly the President-elect was getting at with the odd mention of Trump’s knowledge of vote counting computers.
“So, Trump is rambling on about he and Elon rigging the election?!” she wrote on X. “Am I missing something or is he confessing to yet another damn crime?!”
You can see the clip, here.
Musk responded to a clip of the comment with a salute emoji on X.
Crockett was not the only person on X to question just what Trump meant by the comment. Worse, it set off a whole new wave of election denying conspiracies again working to undermine elections.
Trump has not elaborated on the comment, but he will almost certainly be asked for clarification at some point. And, while it was a strange addition to his speech, there is no evidence of wide-spread cheating in this past election or in 2020.
Still, it will be interesting to see what Trump has to say about this one when he is asked.
