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Eugene

(64,753 posts)
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:12 PM Mar 28

"We're going after them": Musk promises Trump admin will target Tesla critics

Source: Salon

"We're going after them": Musk promises Trump admin will target Tesla critics

The world's richest man threatened those who attacked his companies in a new interview with Fox News

By Griffin Eckstein
Published March 27, 2025 10:21PM (EDT)

Tesla CEO and Trump advisor Elon Musk gave Fox News’s Bret Baier a rare look inside his Department of Government Efficiency on Thursday. While the conversation centered around supposed cost-cutting, talk of enemies of MAGA and Musk was never far off.

The X owner doubled down on promises from Attorney General Pam Bondi and President Donald Trump that those caught vandalizing Tesla dealerships would face harsh legal penalties. However, Musk took it a step further, promising punishment for Tesla’s critics.

“People are committing violence. They are firebombing Tesla dealerships. They are shooting guns into stores. They’re threatening people,” Musk said. “Why? What’s happening, it seems to me, is they’re being fed propaganda by the far left, and they believe it.”

“The ones pushing the lies and propaganda, we’re going after them,” Musk continued. “I think there’s some real evil out there. We have to overcome it.”

Musk wasn’t clear about what types of anti-Tesla speech could be subject to prosecution. ...

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Read more: https://www.salon.com/2025/03/27/were-going-after-them-musk-promises-admin-will-target-tesla-critics/

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"We're going after them": Musk promises Trump admin will target Tesla critics (Original Post) Eugene Mar 28 OP
Musk's lifeless body will be swinging from a light pole sooner than later. Basso8vb Mar 28 #1
From. His. Heels. hedda_foil Mar 28 #7
No longer a free speech country............ Lovie777 Mar 28 #2
I always heard UpInArms Mar 28 #3
Fascist Oligarchy! surfered Mar 28 #4
He'll probably OD on vitamin K before that happens Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 28 #5
Tesla critic right here. Come and get me mother f**kers. Autumn Mar 28 #6
Tesla saturday is tomorrow and every saturday, find a showroom and make some noise! clearly its working. Blues Heron Mar 28 #8
Methinks he's a bit too thin skinned for politics... HipChick Mar 29 #9

UpInArms

(52,718 posts)
3. I always heard
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:16 PM
Mar 28

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Eloonatic needs to figure out that wherever he goes, there he is … and he is making himself the object of hate

Blues Heron

(6,887 posts)
8. Tesla saturday is tomorrow and every saturday, find a showroom and make some noise! clearly its working.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 06:12 PM
Mar 28

For more info, contact your local AntiNa chapter

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