ELON Musk’s dad fears that the world’s richest man could be assassinated for going up against the US government.
Retired electromechanical engineer Errol Musk, 77, says he has serious concerns for his firstborn son’s safety.
Musk, 52, is currently weathering a flurry of legal attacks from the Department of Justice and negative press.
It comes after President Joe Biden suggested in July that “there’s a lot of ways” of investigating the tech tycoon.
Musk has previously joked that he could “die in mysterious circumstances”.
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But Errol exclusively told The U.S. Sun that both he and Elon are worried about what could happen to him.
Reacting to a recent New Yorker piece by journalist Ronan Farrow titled “Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule,” Errol said: “It’s a hit job, a shadow government-sponsored opening salvo on Elon.
“The artillery-like softening up of the enemy before the actual attack and preparing of the ever-submissive people for the attack.”
Asked if he fears that the “shadow government” will try to assassinate Elon, he replied: “Yes.”
Errol, who has previously told The U.S. Sun that he warned his son to beef up his security, said Elon shares the same fear.
Farrow’s article claimed that Musk’s “influence is more brazen and expansive” than previous “meddling of oligarchs and other monied interests in the fate of nations.”
It was published just days before the Department of Justice sued Musk’s SpaceX for allegedly discriminating against asylum recipients and refugees in hiring.
On Wednesday, it emerged that federal prosecutors are also probing Tesla’s alleged use of company funds to build Musk a mansion in Texas.
The legal moves come after Joe Biden suggested in July that Musk could be investigated for buying X, formerly Twitter, with the help of a Saudi Arabian conglomerate.
Asked if Musk was a threat to national security, the president said: “Elon Musk’s cooperation and/or technical relationships with other countries is worthy of being looked at.
“Whether or not he is doing anything inappropriate, I’m not suggesting that.
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“I’m suggesting they’re worth being looked at and that’s all I’ll say.
“There’s a lot of ways.”
Musk has enraged critics since he took over Twitter in November last year.
He has been accused of allowing a rise in hate speech and disinformation on the social media platform, which he recently rebranded as X.
His supporters say that he has allowed greater freedom of speech following allegations of mass censorship on the platform under pressure from government agencies.
On Tuesday - the day before the DOJ announced its discrimination case against SpaceX - X said: “We’re currently expanding our safety and elections teams to focus on combating manipulation, surfacing inauthentic accounts and closely monitoring the platform for emerging threats.
“Our work is ongoing. These increased investments in people, policy and product will further ensure our communities have access to open, accurate and safe political discourse on X.”
Elon joked that he could be assassinated after the former Russian space agency boss Dmitry Rogozin made a veiled threat over Musk supplying his Starlink satellite internet service to Ukraine in May last year.
Musk appeared more serious when he said in December that there is “definitely some risk” that he could be killed.
He told an audio chat on Twitter Spaces: “Frankly, the risk of something bad happening to me, or even literally being shot, is quite significant.
"It's not that hard to kill somebody if you wanted to, so hopefully they don't, and fate smiles upon the situation with me, and it does not happen.”
Errol told The U.S. Sun in June that he believes Elon has put himself in a "no-win situation" with a proposed cage fight with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
He also said the “humiliation would be total” for Elon if he loses against Zuckerberg.
Errol also slammed an AI-generated pic of his son as “totally inaccurate” and shared childhood photos to prove his point.
In April, Errol revealed details about his claim to have once bought a share in an emerald business in Zambia, which Elon has disputed.
Earlier this year, Errol told The U.S. Sun that his son is a "force for good" who also believed that the internet would have been invented by the year 1900 if Napoleon Bonaparte hadn’t been defeated.
And in September last year, Errol admitted to shooting armed intruders in South Africa in 1998 while his then six-year-old daughter Ali clung to his leg.
Also last year, The U.S. Sun revealed Errol’s claim that he had fathered a child with his stepdaughter, Jana Bezuidenhout, and that he had been asked to donate sperm to impregnate high-class women in Colombia.
