Donald Trump told Elon Musk that “illegal immigration saved my life,” in a highly anticipated verbal exchange that was delayed due to technical issues.
The site showed the page as “unavailable” a while after the scheduled start time of 8 p. m. Eastern Time (1 a. m. United Kingdom time) for some users, which more than 115,000 people seem to have controlled to sign up.
Musk then tweeted, “There appears to be a major DDOS attack on X. We are running to avoid it. “
A distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack is designed to force a website, computer, or service to go offline.
This is done by flooding the target with requests, consuming its capacity, and making it unable to satisfy valid requests.
The event was delayed by about 40 minutes and Musk opened the chat by talking about the attempted assassination of M. Trump.
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You might hear the tech billionaire laughing in giant sections, such as when Trump claimed that “illegal immigration saved my life. “
The Republican candidate recounted how he turned his head to read about an illegal immigration graphic at the July 13 rally, which meant shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks had missed.
He then criticized Democratic rival Kamala Harris’ record on immigration, saying she oversaw a massive backlog of unauthorized crossings after being named “in charge” of the U. S. -Mexico border. edge.
Harris coordinated with foreign countries to address the poverty and security issues that were pushing others into the United States, but she was not directly to blame for the border policy.
There was a moment in the verbal exchange with Musk when Trump said he saw Harris on the cover of Time magazine. “She looks like the most beautiful actress of all time,” she said. “It was a drawing and looked a lot like a wonderful first lady, Melania. She didn’t look like Kamala. But of course she’s a lovely woman. “
Trump has long complained about undocumented immigrants heading to the United States.
“Elon, what happened is incredible,” he told X’s 1. 2 million listeners during their conversation.
“They are from the Congo and recently 22 other people from the Congo have arrived and they are murderers. “
The two men also discussed government efficiency, nuclear force and tax cuts during the two-hour program.
These technical disorders will bring back bad memories of May 2023, when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had a chaotic start in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination due to disorders on the platform.
The one-hour screen lost sound for long periods of time and thousands of users were unable to register or were abandoned.
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At the time, Trump mocked DeSantis on his social media platform, Truth Social.
“My button is bigger, better, stronger and it works (TRUTH!),” Trump posted.
“That’s the case. “