Musk blames Tesla protests on Soros
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has accused ActBlue, a major Democratic fundraising platform bankrolled by several powerful figures, including billionaire George Soros, of staging a coordinated attack on his company.
Musk made the accusations against the platform and its backers in a post on X, urging users with knowledge on such activities to share more evidence online.
'An investigation has found 5 ActBlue-funded groups responsible for Tesla 'protests': Troublemakers, Disruption Project, Rise & Resist, Indivisible Project and Democratic Socialists of America,' Musk wrote.
'ActBlue funders include George Soros, Reid Hoffman, Herbert Sandler, Patricia Bauman, and Leah Hunt-Hendrix,' he added.
The Democratic fundraising platform is currently 'under investigation for allowing foreign and illegal donations in criminal violation of campaign finance regulations,' Musk said. Over the past week, seven senior officials, including its associate general counsel, have resigned from their posts, he added.
Tesla has been targeted by intensified protests over the past few weeks, with over 50 locations across the US hit by demonstrations. Protesters have urged Musk to 'go,' with the rallies using slogans like 'We need clean air, not another billionaire' and so on. Apart from that, multiple Tesla dealerships have been targeted by arson attacks.
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The latest incident occurred overnight in Seattle, where a number of Cybertrucks were torched at a local dealership. Before that, on Saturday in Loveland, Colorado, an unknown suspect attacked a local Tesla dealership, with several cars sustaining damage from what appeared to be thrown rocks and fire.
The same business was attacked by an arsonist last month, with the suspect spray painting 'Nazi cars' and hurling Molotov cocktails at them. The transgender suspect, Lucy Grace Nelson, who formerly identified as Justin Thomas Nelson, was booked on a $100,000 cash bond and released the next day. Local police bemoaned the release of the suspected attacker, warning that failures of the criminal system were bound to encourage similar attacks in the future.
'It's incredibly challenging to keep our citizens safe from copycat behavior when there are no repercussions to lawlessness,' Loveland police chief Tim Doran said in a statement.
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