Earlier this week in Maryland, graffiti was found at a Tesla dealership a day after a protest that learn “No Musk” with an indication that resembles a swastika. Police in Massachusetts said on Tuesday that seven Tesla charging stations had been deliberately set on hearth, and the incident is being investigated as suspicious. On Thursday, regulation enforcement in Portland stated that at the least seven pictures had been fired at a Tesla dealership, damaging three vehicles and shattering home windows, according to the CBS affiliate KOIN.
Additionally on Thursday, a person in Boston was arrested for reportedly putting stickers of Musk on a number of Teslas, calling the transfer “free speech” in a video. (His pre-trial listening to for Randall is scheduled for Might.)
Musk replied to the video on X, his social media web site, writing, “Damaging the property of others, aka vandalism, just isn’t free speech!”
The Tesla CEO has additionally posted different occasions in regards to the protests this week on X, saying that he’s investigating teams he claims are behind the demonstrations and asking his followers for any intel they could have.
“An investigation has discovered 5 ActBlue-funded teams liable for Tesla “protests”: Troublemakers, Disruption Mission, Rise & Resist, Indivisible Mission and Democratic Socialists of America,” Musk posted on Saturday. “ActBlue funders embody George Soros, Reid Hoffman, Herbert Sandler, Patricia Bauman, and Leah Hunt-Hendrix.”
As Forbes reported, “there isn’t any different proof” in addition to Musk’s investigation “linking Soros or Hoffman to the Tesla protests” and “ActBlue doesn’t fund teams, however as an alternative is a platform by means of which donors may give cash to campaigns or organizations.”
In a press release from White Home spokesperson Harrison Fields final week, he stated that these “Protests is not going to deter President Trump and Elon Musk from delivering on the promise to ascertain DOGE and make our federal authorities extra environment friendly and extra accountable to the hardworking American taxpayers throughout the nation.”
Since Trump has been in workplace, Musk, his boss, and others on the Division of Authorities Effectivity have, partially, laid off scores of federal workers throughout the nation and threatened to fireplace extra authorities employees in the event that they didn’t reply to emails justifying their jobs.
