Pro-Trump tech billionaire Elon Musk vowed on Fox News that the Trump administration is going to take down people organizing violent demonstrations against his Tesla dealerships as criminal racketeering enterprises, implying that these attacks have been worse for the country than the Jan. 6 attacks that sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
"It is remarkable that there is so much violence," said Musk. "People have burnt cars, they fired bullets into dealerships, they've scratched swastikas into Teslas of the innocent people that have — they're just going about their lives they've done nothing wrong, and Tesla has done nothing wrong as a company."
"I find it ironic and incredibly hypocritical that the same Democrat politicians who would want to throw someone in prison for 20 years simply for watching things at January 6 but not actually doing any violence have — you don't hear a single word from them about the actual violence happening against Tesla," Musk added. "What incredible hypocrites they are. It's outrageous."
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"I mean, really, this is fundamentally a case of terrorism," he continued. "It's widescale domestic terrorism with the purpose of intimidation, and it's harming innocent people. It's really terrible. And I think what we actually have to get to are the people who are organizing and paying for these attacks and protests. That's who we really need to go after because the people at the — who are actually throwing the Molotov cocktails, they are the footsoldiers, but we need to go after the generals. And we're going to do so. The president has made it very clear that we're going to go after those that are paying and organizing these violent attacks."
While many criminal acts against Tesla cars and dealerships have occurred, triggering arrests, Musk apparently wants to take things even further; he recently called for police action in response to a video of a woman simply shouting at a Cybertruck.
Meanwhile, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has suggested that federal agents will monitor even people who show up to Tesla dealerships for any reason, and the FBI has launched a task force to crack down on the incidents.
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