Elon Musk slams Tesla vandalism spree as ‘a great wrong’

Elon Musk expressed outrage Thursday over a spate of vandalism and assaults focusing on Tesla homeowners and dealerships, describing the violence in opposition to his electrical automotive firm as a “nice incorrect.” 

“I believe an excellent incorrect is being finished to the folks of Tesla and to our clients,” the DOGE chief informed Fox Information “Particular Report” host Bret Baier. 

“I imply, Tesla’s a peaceable firm that has made nice vehicles, nice merchandise — that’s all it’s finished,” Musk, 53, argued.

“It hasn’t harmed anybody, and but, individuals are committing violence.” 

Tesla vehicles, dealerships and charging stations have been focused throughout the nation in latest weeks by vandals and arsonists – in an obvious protest of Musk’s work main President Trump’s Division of Environmental Effectivity.

The assaults have ranged from automobiles being keyed and defaced with anti-Trump graffiti to being lit on fireplace and shot at, whereas charging stations have equally been torched with Molotov cocktails.

Tesla staff and Musk himself have additionally acquired dying threats, in keeping with the billionaire tech mogul, who struggled to understand why his firm has turn into a goal. 

“What are they doing this for? Why?” he mentioned. 

“What’s taking place, it appears to me, is that they’re being fed propaganda by the far left, they usually imagine it. It’s actually unlucky,” Musk informed Baier, arguing that the “actual drawback” isn’t “the loopy man that fireplace bombs a Tesla dealership” however reasonably “the folks pushing the propaganda that triggered that man to do it.

“These are the actual villains right here, and we’re going to go after them,” the Trump administration official warned.  

In his one-on-one with Baier — throughout which a younger baby, presumably Musk’s 4-year-old son, X, might be heard turning into stressed within the background — the DOGE chief was additionally requested to disclose one thing about Trump that most individuals wouldn’t know. 

“I believe the president is an efficient man. I believe he’s an trustworthy man. I’ve but to see him do something imply or something that’s incorrect, that I might say is morally incorrect,” he responded.

“Not even as soon as.”