Tesla Task Force: FBI launches Tesla threats task force: 'This is domestic terrorism'

[Eugene]

Source: CNBC

FBI launches Tesla threats task force: ‘This is domestic terrorism’

Published Mon, Mar 24 2025 3:24 PM EDT Updated Mon, Mar 24 2025 6:05 PM EDT
Dan Mangan
@_DanMangan

The FBI said on Monday that it has launched a task force to investigate scores of attacks in recent weeks targeting Tesla, the electric vehicle company headed by Trump administration DOGE chief Elon Musk.

The announcement of the task force, which is operating in conjunction with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, came hours after a bomb squad found multiple incendiary devices at a Tesla showroom in Austin, Texas, the same city where the company has its headquarters.

That incident is the latest in a series of attacks and vandalism on Tesla properties related to CEO Musk’s DOGE team.

DOGE, or the Department of Government Efficiency, is engaged in a wide-ranging effort to sharply cut federal government spending and staffing.

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Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/24/fbi-tesla-elon-musk-task-force-threats-trump-doge.html

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[RJ-MacReady]

1. To be perfectly honest

I do not care one single bit about any of this. Yes whoever did it should face charges. Both can be true.

[dchill]

4. Do you think that vandalizing Tesla properties is domestic terrorism?

Because I don't. But Kash Patel does. He's turning the FBI into a terrorist organization. To be perfectly honest.

[RJ-MacReady]

9. No I don't

But it is vandalism which is illegal. I also don't care about Tesla.

[dchill]

10. I don't care about Tesla, either. Never did.

I DO care about the government and its institutions. I'm very disturbed by the idea that these institutions and agencies have been staffed with Project 2025 Bizarro World political stooges. Like Kash Patel. I KNOW vandalism illegal - unless it's committed by lunatic MAGA Trump headliners. Like EVERYONE on the Signal Russian Chat Group.

[dutch777]

2. The inclination to target Tesla is understandable but I don't see property damage or violence as useful. March & chant

with signs in public right of ways near the store will be more than enough to make buyers stay away.

[stonecutter357]

5. The GOP is allabout violence !

See January 6 insurrection It helped them !

[dutch777]

6. I don't think it helps and we don't need to be adding fuel to that fire. No one wins that game really.

I think marching, blocking streets temporarily and just starting a rising level of noisy public protest and boycotting springing up everywhere will get us further than violence that gives the administration ammunition to attack and let's them paint us as just as bad as them giving them further excuse that their violence is ok.

[dchill]

12. So far, it kinda looks like they're winning.

[maxrandb]

14. I used to agree with you

but haven't Returdlicans sent the message to the American people that "violence and property damage are a winning political strategy"?

Maybe we should hold off on condemning violence, until America STOPS FUCKING REWARDING IT!

I fucking hate that I feel that way, but I do.

I am a peaceful man, but if even I am feeling that violence is being rewarded, we may be more fucked than I would care to acknowledge.

[stonecutter357]

3. LoL fuck Eloon !

[Turbineguy]

7. So then the taxpayer can make good the losses Musk suffers?

[Dem4life1970]

8. Yes the most important thing

that thr FBI should be focused on is protecting the President's biggest donor's company.

[Vinca]

11. Oh, the poor billionaire. We must devote the entire FBI to solving his self-created problem.

[dchill]

13. That's one reason Kash got the gig.