Billionaire White House adviser Elon Musk suggested there is a vast conspiracy against him, the ultimate aim of which is his death and the end of Tesla Motors.
The Tesla CEO spent nearly $300 million to elect President Donald Trump and has steeped himself in far-right politics over the last couple of years. That includes his promotion of various conspiracy theories, including ones about Jews, the U.S. Agency for International Development, federal hurricane relief, the 2020 election, vaccines, Social Security, and many other topics. On Tuesday, he alleged another conspiracy is afoot – one that seeks his destruction.
Since Trump was inaugurated, Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” has engaged in a series of legally questionable firings and withholding of congressionally appropriated funds at several agencies. The ostensible aim of the outfit is to eradicate “waste, fraud, and abuse” in the bureaucracy. A report published by Politico last month showed that the group vastly overstated what it had found in this respect.
On Tuesday, Musk joined Hannity on Fox News after his rocket company SpaceX returned home two astronauts who had been stuck in the International Space Station for more than nine months. Host Sean Hannity asked for Musk’s reaction to the vandalization that has taken place at Tesla dealerships and against Tesla products. In recent weeks, Tesla dealerships have become ground zero for peaceful protests against Musk and his company, whose brand has taken a major hit in recent months.
“It’s really come as quite a shock to me that there is this level of, really, hatred and violence from the left,” Musk told Hannity. “I always thought that the left, you know, Democrats were supposed to be the party of empathy, the party of caring, and yet they’re burning down cars, firebombing dealerships, they’re firing bullets into dealerships, they’re smashing up Teslas. Tesla is a peaceful company. We’ve never done anything harmful.”
The billionaire alleged that the perpetrators have a “mental illness thing going on” and claimed the acts are all connected.
“I think there are larger forces at work as well,” he continued. “I mean, who’s funding and who’s coordinating it? Because this is crazy. I’ve never seen anything like this.”
Musk, whose companies have billions in government contracts, then claimed that certain people are receiving government money “fraudulently.”
“It turns out when you take away people’s, you know, the money that they’re receiving fraudulently, they get very upset,” he said. “And they basically wanna kill me because I’m stopping their fraud and they wanna hurt Tesla because we’re stopping the terrible waste and corruption in the government. And, well, I guess they’re bad people. Bad people do bad things.”
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