Leftist agitators are attacking Tesla owners, shooting up dealerships, and setting vehicles ablaze, a violent and dangerous situation they hope to pin on the world’s richest man.
At a “peaceful protest” outside of a Tesla dealership in Kentwood on Monday, organizer Elizabeth Jenkins told WZZM Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency, should accept responsibility for the domestic terrorism.
“No one elected anything like DOGE to happen,” Jenkins claimed. “And people don’t know what to do with their anger and absolute dismay about possibly losing their Social Security. Certainly, the Department of Education is now on its way out.”
“Elon Musk is fueling this rage and the protests,” according to Jenkins. “You know, this is his fault. If he wants to stop it, he can.”
The recent protest, as well as others in Troy and other states, coincide with attacks in Michigan and beyond that have resulted in criminal charges and an FBI task force with a mandate to “crack down on violent Tesla attacks,” according to an FBI announcement cited by CNN.
“This is domestic terrorism,” FBI Director Kash Patel said Monday. “Those responsible will be pursued, caught, and brought to justice.”
Musk himself agreed on Monday, noting on his X platform there’s “no doubt the that shooting bullets into Tesla stores and burning down Superchargers are acts of terrorism.”
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“Tesla just makes electric cars and has done nothing to deserve these evil attacks,” he wrote in a previous post.
In Michigan, the attacks included a Cybertruck owner who declined to be identified after his vehicle was targeted during an evening out last week.
The owner told WZZM “we were out with my friends having dinner and drinks and come out to the vehicle with a message on the window.”
“There were people around the truck taking photos and a lot of people laughing,” he said. “It was very disappointing and frustrating.”
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“F*** off NAZI,” the message read.
Police are now looking for a woman who was captured on video scrawling the profanity, though the owner said it’s not the first time he’s faced hate from the left over his vehicle.
“Daily, I do get a lot of middle fingers,” the Cybertruck owner said. “It does not bother me as much when I’m by myself but when we have kids inside the car it’s kind of disappointing, a little bit, and sad.”
“Everybody works hard for what they have and regardless of their political views, we should respect that,” he said.
Other attacks have been far more serious.
In January and February, a woman repeatedly attacked a Tesla dealership in Loveland, Colo., with Molotov cocktails and spray paint, defacing vehicles with the word “Nazi,” according to CNN.
In Washington, DC, Tesla vehicles were defaced by vandals with political hate speech on March 2, while seven Tesla charging stations were set on fire in Boston the next day.
Three cars were also damaged after at least seven gun shots were fired into a Tesla showroom in Portland, Ore., on March 6, shattering windows and damaging computer equipment, as well. Vandals fired another 10 to 15 shots at the same dealership on March 13.
On March 7, a 24-year-old man was arrested after police allege he threw five Molotov cocktails at a Tesla charging station in South Carolina. Witnesses told police a man also spray-painted an expletive against the 47th POTUS and “Long Live Ukraine” in red in the parking lot.
The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force is also investigating a shooting at a Las Vegas, Nev., Tesla repair shop, where the suspect attempted to ignite two vehicles with Molotov cocktails. First responders put out the fire before it reached the vehicle’s batteries.
“It’s absolutely domestic terrorism,” Bruce Hoffman, senior fellow for counterterrorism and homeland security at the Council on Foreign Relations, told WKAR.
“I know that may discomfort many people,” he said. “But vandalism is a crime that if it’s committed with a political motive, can certainly be defined as terrorism.”
The FBI defines domestic terrorism as “Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.”
While at least three individuals currently face federal charges in the attacks, agitators frustrated with DOGE cuts have no plans to stop any time soon.
Organizers of a “Tesla Takedown” are now calling for 500 protests at all 277 Tesla showrooms, as well as Supercharger stations, on March 29th to “send those techno-fascists, broligarchs and old fashioned Nazis a message loud and clear,” according to the group’s BlueSky page.
The overall goal: end Trump, Musk, and Tesla.
“I want to see Trump impeached and Elon taken out of our government,” Ferndale resident Andi Costantini told The Detroit News at a protest in Troy on Sunday as others toted signs that read “Impeach President Musk” and “Delete Musk.”
“I want to see their whole administration taken down,” she said.
“Investigative journalist” Micah Lee, an avid Tesla critic, told The Verge he hopes the effort ultimately will “drive Tesla’s stock into a death spiral.”
TSLA has fallen from a high of $449.86 on Dec. 16 to $275.97 on Tuesday, though it has jumped more than $50 since March 18.