Requesting a judge relocate the initial hearing in his case against Elon Musk over the $1 million lottery scam, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner filed a motion Wednesday seeking enhanced “security surrounding the hearing. Enhanced security is possible either at City Hall or at the Juanita Kidd Stout Center for Criminal Justice (CJC), which is more fully staffed with sheriffs than City Hall. The same day this Complaint was filed, Elon Musk posted to his 202.7 million followers on X, the social-media website he owns, his agreement with an attack on the integrity of the Court the statement that Larry Krasner ‘knows it’s not illegal but wants a leftist judge to stop it before Election Day.’ That retweet now has 8.9 million views. Id. It immediately triggered an avalanche of posts from Musk’s followers. Many made antisemitic attacks on Krasner. See, eg, Exhibit 1 at 2 (‘Krasner and Soros, both Jewish, both corrupt goons.’); Exhibit 1 at 3 (‘Shapiro PA Governor / Krasner Philly DA / soros money machinations / what’s the Jewish population of Pennsylvania? Weird how they end up in every position of consequence every single time.’)

“Even worse, one account responded to posts about the lawsuit at least 19 times by inviting political violence, posting Krasner family’s home address, including numerous posts also stating, ‘Krasner loves visitors. Mask up and leave all cellphones at home.’ The directives to ‘mask up’ and to ‘leave all cellphones at home’ are to prevent identification of illegal actors by video, by eyewitnesses, and by cellphone geolocation. These posts, which unquestionably are criminal, and remain posted on Musk’s X website,” Krasner continued in the motion, also asking the judge to require Musk be present.