FBI launches Tesla threats task force

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Source: CNBC

Published Mon, Mar 24 2025 3:24 PM EDT Updated 4 Min Ago


The FBI has launched a new task force to investigate attacks targeting Tesla, the electric vehicle company headed by Trump administration DOGE chief Elon Musk. The announcement of the task force on Monday 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.

The incident is the latest in a series of attacks and vandalism on Tesla properties related to CEO Musk’s DOGE team, which is engaged in a wide-ranging effort to sharply cut federal government spending and staffing.

“The FBI has been investigating the increase in violent activity toward Tesla, and over the last few days, we have taken additional steps to crack down and coordinate our response,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a post on X, the social media site owned by Musk. “This is domestic terrorism,” Patel wrote in that tweet. “Those responsible will be pursued, caught, and brought to justice.”

The New York Post first reported news of the task force. “Can confirm,” FBI spokesman Ben Williamson tweeted in response to The Post’s report. “The FBI has launched a Task Force in conjunction with ATF to coordinate investigative activity and crack down on violent Tesla attacks. More to come.”

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

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Published Mon, Mar 24 2025 3:24 PM EDT Updated 1 Min Ago


The FBI has launched a new task to investigate attacks targeting Tesla, the electric vehicle company headed by Trump administration DOGE chief Elon Musk.

The announcement of the task force came hours after multiple incendiary devices were found at a Tesla showroom in Austin, Texas, the city where the company has its headquarters.

The incident was the latest in a series of attacks and vandalism on Tesla properties.


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[CincyDem]

1. Broligarch police force swinging into action.

[underpants]

5. Broligarch is spot on.

[CincyDem]

6. Yep. Wish I could claim credit. I think someone else here used and it left an impression.

[GreenWave]

2. What about teslas that self drive and crash?

[Dave Bowman]

26. Lol! That's a hell of a good question.

[ck4829]

3. In before not buying a Tesla gets you the death penalty

[dflprincess]

4. What about shareholders

who sell their stock?

[JoseBalow]

8. Communists

[mdbl]

7. Maybe some day these companies will be held accountable for who they supported

but probably not in my lifetime. I hope everyone boycotts them.

[33taw]

9. I am surprised that Tesla does not have surveillance cameras on their lots. This should be a no-brainer

to catch the perpetrators.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. I think they do

There were arrests of suspects in 3 different states - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143422187

[Irish_Dem]

11. Does the FBI have a task force to protect school children from shootings?

[ck4829]

12. No. From white nationalist terrorism? Also no. From US guns going to cartels? Also also no

[Irish_Dem]

14. It's way more important to protect stupid ugly cars.

And the stupid ugly car salesman.

[mymomwasright]

13. Vandalizing a Tesla is a Federal crime why?

Has there been any evidence that it should be, other than yam tits and sissy claiming terrorism?

[Polybius]

22. I was hanging out with a young lady in 2001 that keyed my car

All because I decided to hang out with another woman. I guess she'd have been federally charged if this were today.

[SunSeeker]

15. Nobody has been hurt at Tesla dealerships. School shootings on the other hand...

[Bengus81]

19. Technically their not even dealerships. Their banned in 11 States from selling Tesla cars

in the "showroom" fashion that they do. Kansas is one of them.

[hadEnuf]

16. If Tesla was owned by Democrats Trump would be issuing free government Molotov cocktails.

This isn't government. It's a private corporation using government agencies as private investigators and security.

The real terrorists are the Trump administration and his supporters. Where the fuck was the FBI on that?

[DENVERPOPS]

17. The simplest definition

of FASCISM is the Merging of Corporations and Government......

[slightlv]

18. What else do you expect from the man (?) who is actually our true president,

the constitution be damned! trump is nothing but a golf whore. that's all he does, besides run his mouth when it'll do the most harm, and then let others do the work.

[Karasu]

20. What a fucking waste of time and money. Completely insane to create a task force just for the sake of protecting a

specific fucking company, least of all one that a private citizen in the government has ownership of.

So much small government.

[dalton99a]

23. Kash Patel's Tesla Brand Protection task force

[Martin68]

24. I thought Musk was going to save us money...

[chouchou]

25. How do you tell the difference between a Tesla Cybertruck and a Dumpster?

The Dumpster pushes easier.

[Dave Bowman]

29. Also, dumpsters don't spontaneously combust.

[chouchou]

31. Good one. ...and the dumpsters don't catch on fire so much.

[Frasier Balzov]

27. Find where Kash Patel is dining tonight

and go have a word with him.

If you want Bongino, go in numbers and go in heavy. He's an ugly badass.

[Dave Bowman]

30. I believe that he's eating at La Latrine Dore.

[Frasier Balzov]

34. Golden Toilet at the Trump International in Las Vegas.

Roger that.

[Dave Bowman]

28. Next thing you know, keying a Lada will get you the death penalty.

[usonian]

32. Coming soon. New York Stock Exchange arrested for allowing Tesla stock to fall.

I SAID BUY TESLA.

[IzzaNuDay]

33. Kash and the FBI can go pound sand

Teslas are just another electric automobile. In comparison:
school shootings are collateral damage.
Sexual assaults -- well boys are boys
Stealing from the poor, then they deserve it.

[Duncan Grant]

35. How 'bout the FBI investigate childhood hunger? A much larger crime.

The power of the state. Their priorities are clear.

[ImNotGod]

36. Musk's Gestapo has been unleashed. nt

[Captain Zero]

37. well since the Counter-Intel Unit needs work, might as well

nt

[LT Barclay]

38. Would it be possible to overwhelm the FBI by sending thousands of hate letters to Tesla dealerships?

Finally subversive action I can do from home!

[hunter]

39. Tip for the FBI: The greatest threat to Tesla's survival is is Elon Musk.

The brand is doomed so long as he controls it.

[twodogsbarking]

40. Y'all get it.

https://tenor.com/search/keystone-cops-gif-gifs

[mwb970]

41. The attacks will continue and accelerate as long as Musk's attacks on America continue.

This is a waste of FBI resources.

[Icanthinkformyself]

42. The mafia

often commits arson for insurance money. How many of the dealers, seeing their business tanking, decide it's time to move on as the flames rise behind them.

[travelingthrulife]

43. Of course they do.