Elon Musk announced plans to scale back his involvement with the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) following a sharp 71% decline in Tesla's first-quarter profits.
A fiscal policy analyst for the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) will avoid jail time after allegedly vandalizing multiple Tesla vehicles in Minneapolis, causing more than $21,000 in damages. Dylan Bryan Adams, 33, was arrested on April 16 but quickly released and offered a diversion program instead of criminal prosecution.
In a disturbing example of left-wing hostility toward Elon Musk’s Tesla, a Minnesota state employee has been accused of vandalizing the very cars Democratic leaders have mocked in public.
A 19-year-old Missouri man has been arrested and charged with firebombing Tesla Cybertrucks at a dealership in Kansas City, in what federal officials are labeling a politically motivated act of domestic terrorism. Owen McIntire, a college student in Boston, was taken into FBI custody Friday and now faces serious federal charges after allegedly using Molotov cocktails to ignite multiple Tesla vehicles and charging stations.
A New Mexico man faces federal charges after allegedly launching politically and ideologically charged arson attacks against both a Tesla showroom and the Republican Party of New Mexico’s headquarters. Jamison Wagner, 40, of Albuquerque, has been charged with two counts of malicious damage or destruction of property by fire or explosives, each carrying a sentence of five to 20 years in prison.
The NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force is actively investigating a disturbing incident in Brooklyn after a woman allegedly left a brick marked with a swastika on a man's Tesla.
A radical legal group tied to the Antifa movement has partnered with anti-Tesla activists protesting CEO Elon Musk’s political alliances, particularly his ties to former President Donald Trump. The Civil Liberties Defense Center (CLDC), based in Oregon, has been providing online training and legal support to demonstrators engaged in what they’ve dubbed the “Tesla Takedown.”
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has labeled the recent surge in attacks on Tesla vehicles, dealerships, and charging stations as "wide-scale domestic terrorism" and is urging authorities to pursue those orchestrating these violent acts.