I didn’t think you were trying to excuse this guy in some way.
That said, i don’t see a huge difference between planning to break an 80+ year old woman’s knee caps, and killing her. I guess it’s little better.
I do think it was, and probably is, premature to think that the increasingly violent rhetoric from some republicans contributed in some way to this guy’s motives. That’s probably beside the point though.
Personally, what troubles me isn’t so much that elon musk was play acting at being somebody who cares about the truth, or due process, with his tweet about not jumping to conclusions. It was his link to the nonsense publication with its (apparently) nonsense article about this being related to a bar. And the implication that somehow pelosi’s husband did something to deserve this.