The U.S. Marshals Service has deputized Elon Musk’s private security team, CBS News reported Friday.
The deputization followed after Musk — the Department of Government Efficiency chief — somewhat jokingly expressed concern that his security detail should be bigger.
“I’m open to ideas for improving security. I don’t actually have a death wish — I think,” Musk said at a Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.
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“President [Nayib] Bukele from El Salvador, who managed to put in prison like a hundred thousand murderous thugs, and called me: ‘I am worried about your security,’” Musk said Bukele told him.
“I’m like, ‘Dude, you are worried about my security?’”
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