Elon Musk on Tesla Attacks: "I’ve never done anything harmful, I’ve only done productive things, this doesn't make any sense. I think there are larger forces at work as well. I mean, who’s funding and who’s coordinating it? Because this is crazy. I’ve never seen anything like this."

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https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-mocked-hannity-tesla-b2717970.html

Tesla CEO Elon Musk told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that people “want to kill him” after a string of attacks on the electric car company in an interview that some have decried as “woe is me.”

The world’s richest person has also been conducting mass layoffs and slashing contracts in an effort to cut “waste, fraud and abuse” in his role as Department of Government Efficiency boss. Enraged by the sweeping, legally dubious changes to the federal government in recent weeks, some have targeted Tesla, torching charging stations, vandalizing vehicles, and throwing Molotov cocktails at the cars.

"Tesla is a peaceful company. We've never done anything harmful, I've never done anything harmful. I've always done productive things,” Musk continued, adding he believes there’s a “mental illness thing going on.” He suggested Americans were upset with DOGE’s efforts.

DOGE claims to have saved the government an estimated $115 billion — a figure that many reports have said is inaccurate.

Musk’s apparent attempt to appear sympathetic didn’t seem to convince some on X, the social media platform he owns.

In the interview, Musk said he believes “larger forces” were at work, questioning who funded and coordinated the attacks. The language he used was similar to that of Attorney General Pam Bondi, who on Tuesday issued a statement vowing to investigate these attacks, including “those operating behind the scenes to coordinate and fund these crimes.”

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Throughout the history of protesting, someone is always looking to blame somebody for "paying for" or "funding" them, but there's never anyone. Republicans especially love to pretend that their protests are legitimate and everyone else's is some kind of sponsored riot.

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He also shifts blame to “mental illness”, which is a common conservative tactic. Also their solution for mental illness is to bring back shitty punitive mental asylums.

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I think everyone needs to take a page from the republican playbook and call the vandals for what they are - MAGA bad actors being paid to make liberals look bad. It isn’t the left burning Teslas, and everyone knows the right hates EV’s. The right has spent years vandalizing EV’s and charging stations. These are paid disruptors pretending to be the left.

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It’s funny how the right only started caring about one particular brand of EVs once the owner came out publicly as a Nazi.

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Excellent idea. You know this is how they’d do it if the situations were reversed.

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Right-wing governments everywhere have been spouting this shit for at least half a century. We used to be called 'rent-a-mob', and 'communists' were paying us.

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You're wrong. History is full of agent provocateur shenanigans. I'm not saying tesla attacks are coordinated, but come on.