{"id":405,"date":"2025-03-12T15:15:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/?p=405"},"modified":"2025-03-24T11:26:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T11:26:53","slug":"johnson-says-congress-will-investigate-attacks-against-tesla-owners-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/johnson-says-congress-will-investigate-attacks-against-tesla-owners-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson says Congress will investigate attacks against Tesla owners, vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Wednesday that Congress will investigate attacks against Tesla vehicles and their owners as Elon Musk\u2019s flagship electric vehicle company faces mounting backlash over its CEO\u2019s controversial role in the Trump administration\u2019s cost-cutting initiatives.<\/p>\n

Johnson described Musk\u2019s efforts as \u201cheroic\u201d in a post on social platform X, which is also owned by the tech billionaire, and claimed without evidence that the \u201cradical Left\u201d is behind the attacks against Tesla.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe heroic work of @elonmusk has so panicked the radical Left that they\u2019re now calling him \u2018racist\u2019(?!) and engaging in domestic terrorism to attack Tesla owners and their vehicles!\u201d Johnson wrote, sharing a clip of his appearance on Fox News’s “Outnumbered” defending Musk.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongress will investigate the sources of these attacks and help the DOJ [Department of Justice] & FBI ensure those responsible are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Musk responded to Johnson’s post with his own thanking him and including American flag and saluting emoji.<\/p>\n

The Hill has reached out to Johnson\u2019s office for more information. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The announcement comes a day after President Trump doubled down on his support for Musk<\/a>, announcing he would purchase his own Tesla vehicle to “make a statement.”<\/p>\n

Multiple Teslas were parked outside the White House on Tuesday, and the president surveyed the different vehicles after delivering remarks alongside Musk and his son.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to buy because number one, it\u2019s a great product. As good as it gets. Number two, because this man [Elon Musk] has devoted his energy and his life to doing this, and I think he has been treated unfairly,\u201d Trump told reporters outside the White House in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

Tesla\u2019s stock has plummeted more than 50 percent since late last year, and it suffered its largest drop in more than four years on Monday. It follows a string of protests at Tesla warehouses across the country from demonstrators calling out Musk\u2019s leadership of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the mass layoffs and spending cuts associated with it.<\/p>\n

Some Tesla vehicles have been vandalized on the streets, while some Tesla owners have put bumper stickers displaying messages like \u201cI bought it before Elon went nuts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump floated the idea of labeling violence at Tesla dealerships as domestic terrorism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will do that, I\u2019ll do it. I\u2019m going to stop them,\u201d Trump said Tuesday when asked about some of the suggestions that individuals carrying out violence should be labeled as domestic terrorists.<\/p>\n

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, echoed calls for an investigation into attacks on Tesla and suggested without offering evidence that Democrats could be behind the attacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cAttacks on Tesla must be investigated as domestic terrorism!\u201d Greene wrote Wednesday. \u201cToday, my @DOGECommittee colleagues and I sent a letter to @AGPamBondi and @FBIDirectorKash asking for an investigation into the wave of organized attacks targeting @elonmusk, @Tesla, and the @DOGE effort.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWho is behind it? Who is funding it? Is there a link with Democrat-leaning NGOs? We look forward to exposing these terrorists and bringing them to justice!\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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