Elon Musk shocked over nationwide Tesla vandalism as DOGE uncovers government waste: Some kind of mental illness

DOGE chief Elon Musk expressed shock Tuesday at the “hatred and violence from the left” over his government cost-cutting measures that have sparked arson attacks and vandalism against Tesla vehicles. “It’s really comes as quite a shock to me that there was this level of, really, hatred and violence from the left.I always thought the left, the Democrats, were supposed to be the party of empathy, the party of caring and yet they’re burning down cars, they’re firebombing dealerships, they’re firing bullets into dealerships, they’re just, you know, smashing up Teslas,” Musk told Fox News host Sean Hannity. The Tesla CEO argued that his electric car company has always been “peaceful” and that he’s personally never done anything so “harmful” or “awful” to warrant such a backlash. “I’ve only done productive things,” Musk said.

“So, I think we just have a deranged – there’s some kind of mental illness thing going on here because this doesn’t make any sense.”Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday called the recent spate of targeted attacks against Tesla vehicles “nothing short of domestic terrorism.”Bondi made the declaration after five Tesla vehicles were damaged after a fire broke out at a Tesla Collision Center in Las Vegas on Tuesday morning.Local authorities blamed an arsonist hurling Molotov cocktails for the fire, noting the word “RESIST” was spray-painted across the doors of the facility and that gunshots were fired at other Teslas. “I think there are larger forces at work here as well,” Musk said.

“I mean, I don’t know, who’s funding this and who’s coordinating this?” “This is crazy,” he added.“I’ve never seen anything like this.” Musk attributed the violence to his success in rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in federal government through his work leading the Department of Government Efficiency, which aims to slash $2 trillion in government spending. “It turns out when you t...