Electronic transport companies form fire. Lead and Molotov cocktails aim at Timing Showrooms.

The attacks on the property bearing the slogan Elon Musk An electric cars company that stands out throughout the United States And abroad. While no injuries were reported, TESLA showrooms, the maximum vehicles, shipping stations and private owned car were targeted.

There has been a clear rise since the presidentDonald TrumpHe took office and enables musk to supervise a new ministry of government competenceCuttingGovernment spending. Experts in local extremism say it is impossible to know if the incident chain will enjoy the color of a long -term pattern.

In Trump’s first period, his property in New York City, Washington, and other places became a natural place to protest. In the first days of his second term, Tesla fills this role.

“Tasala is an easy goal,” said Randy Plazac, the sociologist who studies political violence. “They rolled in our streets.

Musk critics systemsDozens of peaceful demonstrationsIn Tesla Wealerships and FactoriesRoughNorth America and Europe. Some owners of Tesla,Including US SenateThose who stumbled with musk, pledged to sell their cars.

But the attacks keep the application of the law busy.

General prosecutors in ColoradoShe accused a womanLast month, regarding a series of attacks on Tesla agents, includingMolotov cocktails were thrown into vehiclesAnd the words “Nazi Cars” are drawn on the building.

Last week, Federal agents at South Carolina were arrested a man saying he had set fire to Tesla shipping stations near Charleston. An agent from the alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives office wrote in a written certificate that the authorities found writings criticizing the government, Wajj in his bedroom and a wallet.

The agent wrote: “The statement was mentioned by sending a message based on these beliefs.”

A number of the most prominent accidents were reported in left -western cities in the northwest of the Pacific, such asPortland, OregonAnd Seattle, where the anti -Trump and anti -glowing feelings rise.

Oregon is facing charges after throwing many Molotov cocktails at the Tesla store in Salem, then returns on another day and shooting windows. In the Tigard suburb of Portland, more than ten bullets were fired in the Tesla showroom last week, which destroyed vehicles and windows, the second time in the week that the store was targeted.

It was four electronic companiesrakeIn a lot of TeslaIn SeattleEarlier this month. On Friday, witnesses reported a man who poured gasoline in the style of non -preoccupied Tesla and started a fire on Seattle Street.

In Las Vegas, many Tesla vehicles were formed early on Tuesday outside the Tesla Service Center, where the word “resistance” was drawn in red through the front doors of the building. The authorities said that at least one person threw the Molotov cocktails – raw gasoline bombs or another flammable liquid – and fired several rounds of weapons to vehicles.

“Was this terrorism?” Which of these factors was lost on us. “

Tesla becomes a goal for the left

Tesla was once my love. The company helped obtain a 465 million dollar federal loan during the Obama administration, and the company has proven, and, despite its early reputation, has proven that it should not be small, self, and limited in the range.

Recently, though, with MuskAlliedWith the right. Buy the social network twitterThe X was renamed and erased the restrictions that angered the conservatives. He spent an estimated $ 250 million to strengthen Trump’s 2024 campaign, becoming his largest donor.

Musk continues to run Tesla –As well as xandSpacex missile manufacturer– While the Trump counselor also works.

The value of Tesla has doubled in the weeks that followed the election of Trump, but it has made all these gains since then.

Trump gave a boost to the company when he isThe White House corridor turnedIn the electric vehicle display hall. The president promoted the vehicles and said that he would buy a $ 80,000 model, and avoid itFierce criticism of the pastFrom electric cars.

Tesla did not respond to a request for comment. Moses briefly addressed sabotage on Monday during his appearance on Senator Podcast Ted Cruz, saying, “At least some of them are organized and paid by” left “leftist organizations in America, funded by the left billionaires, mainly.”

“This level of violence is crazy and very wrong.”Tuesday wroteOn X, share a video of the burning of Teslas in Las Vegas. “Tesla makes electric cars and did nothing to deserve these evil attacks.”

“All its instructions are available to the public and” explicitly encourage peaceful protest and condemning any acts of violence or sabotage. “

Some Tesla owners have resorted to stigmatized stickers to remove themselves from the new shame of their car, and may deter potential saboteurs. They say things like “I bought this before we know that Elon was crazy,” or “I just wanted an electric car.

The prices of used electronic products, the most distinctive Tesla products, have decreased to nearly 8 % since Trump took office, according to Carburus, who uses the lists of auto cars used. The market as a whole remained constant during this period.

The White House undertakes the campaign

The White House threw its weight behind Musk, a prominent member of the administration and a major donor to the committees that enhance Trump’s political interests. Trump said that the sabotage of Tesla into “local terrorism”, and Trump threatened revenge, warning that those who target the company “will go to hell.”

Prosecutor Bam Bondi said she had opened an investigation “to find out how this is funded, from behind this.”

“If you are going to touch Tesla, then move to an agency, do anything, then you prefer to watch us because we are coming after you,” said Bondi on Friday Fox Business Network. In a statement on Tuesday, it pledged to “continue the investigations that impose severe consequences”, including “those who are behind the scenes to coordinate and fund these crimes.”

Kullen Clark, an oldest research colleague at the Sufan Center, said that left -wing political violence tends to target property instead of people. It looks at the rise of new Nazi groups as a greater security threat at this stage.

Clark said: “I am not a kind of action that I will do.” “Not now compared to all other threats there.”

Theresa Ramzel is the President of Tesla Malika in Washington State, a club for Tesla lovers, and her husband owns three of them.

She said, “I hate Elon and Trump everything you want – this is good and Dandi, it’s your choice.” “The destruction of a person’s property, sabotage, destroying it, and setting fire to it does not justify.

Someone recently slapped a “La Eleon” poster on the back door of Cybertruck, but she said she did not intend to stop driving her signs. She said that other club members took a similar view.

“I love my car.” I will not allow someone else to be in the car I drive. “

This story was originally shown on Fortune.com

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