Elon Musk has talked about an alleged conspiracy to kill him and destroy Tesla, the electric car company that made him the richest man in the world.
The head of the Department of Government Efficiency and informal adviser of President Donald Trump has had a difficult weeks because he continues his mission to drastically reduce the size of federal bureaucracy.
Musk spoke on FOX News on Tuesday evening, Sean Hannity said that his attempts to reduce waste and fraud is the reason why certain characters want to kill me. '
“It turns out that when you take people away, you know, the money they receive fraudulently, they are very upset,” he said.
“And they actually want to kill me because I stop their fraud and they want to hurt Tesla because we stop the terrible waste and corruption with the government. And now, I think they are bad people. Bad people do bad things. '
Musk repeated the claim of many conservative legislators, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, that there can be left-wing groups that coordinate the protests and attacks on Tesla vehicles and dealers.
“I think there are also greater forces at work,” said Musk. 'I mean, who is financing and who coordinates it? Because this is crazy. I've never seen anything like that.
'Tesla is a peaceful company, we have never done anything harmful. I have never done anything harmful, I have only done productive things, so I think we just have a disturbed … I think there is a kind of mental illness going on here, “he added.
Elon Musk came to Fox News at Fox News outside the White House on Tuesday evening. He claimed that there was a conspiracy to kill him and destroy Tesla
Shown: Two burned Tesla's are seen in the parking space attacked by the unknown perpetrator
The theory of Musk came hours after a fire founder Molotov cocktails used to dismiss BOM Five Teslas at a dealer in Las Vegas, Nevada
Large demonstrations have been performed in Tesla dealers throughout the country and in some more extreme incidents, Tesla vehicles that are owned by innocent people are set on fire.
The most recent example came on Tuesday morning, when a fire founder Molotov cocktails used to fire five Teslas before they shot rounds in the burning vehicles on a dealer in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Last week, around 250 activists gathered outside a showroom in New York City, with anti-sparrow magazines with 'Block Fascism Now and' Musk Must Go 'while they shouted:' Elon Musk is not chosen! Democracy must be protected! '
The chaos and anger focused on Musk and Tesla are swollen to the point that Trump came out and declared domestic terrorism.
“They harm a great American company,” said Trump in the White House, referring to the demonstrators. “Let me tell you, you do it to Tesla, and you do it with every company, we are going to catch yourself and … you are going to go through hell.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi seems to follow on Trump's promise, and also calls the attacks on Tesla -ownership 'Domestic Terrorism' in a statement Tuesday evening.
“The Ministry of Justice has already sued several perpetrators with that in mind, including in cases that entail costs with a mandatory minimum sentence of five years,” Bondi said.
“We will continue with investigations that impose serious consequences on those involved in these attacks, including those who operate behind the scenes to coordinate and finance these crimes.”
The word 'resistance' was seen sprayed outside the dealer of Las Vegas who was attacked on Tuesday
Large demonstrations have been performed in Tesla dealers throughout the country, starting the trend around the middle of February
But the deteriorating performance of Tesla shares have the protests about two months prior to the protests, with shares that start their steep fall in the mid-December
Long before the protests at Tesla dealers started in mid-February, Musk has a considerable pain in his wallet.
The Tesla shares have fallen more than 53 percent since the peak in mid -December, about a month before Trump took office. According to one estimate, SpaceX has now replaced Tesla as Musk's most valuable property.
Musk has seen his wealth shrinking with $ 130 billion since 1 January, according to the Bloomberg billionaire index.
Tesla almost doubled in value after Trump President Kamala defeated Harris Harris in the November elections, where investors hope that the unique access level of Musk to the incoming president would be a blessing for the company.
But the enormous cuts of Musk at various government agencies and job reduction initiatives within the federal government have not passed well with some.
For example, he led the closure of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Foreign Aid for the Government Aid for Food Aid, Disaster Relief and Diseases Programs in more than 100 countries with an annual $ 40 billion budget.
Musk has called USAID 'one of the greatest sources of fraud'.
On Tuesday, a federal court declared the Trump government and the dismantling of Musk of USAID probably violated the Constitution.
Musk's Doge has also helped to remove the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Department of Education, an agency that Trump reportedly wants to close through executive order.
An employee sees the sign for USAID outside the head office in Washington, DC removes after Musk's attacks on the program
Musk's decision to join the MAGA movement may have caused his company damage, because it reports the falling sale worldwide
The decision of Musk to join the Maga movement cordially cost him a once loyal customer base that leans on the left and also wants to control electric cars.
In general, politics are trying to stay in order to maintain most of the customers.
Anheuser-Busch, the company behind Bud Light, learned this lesson when it briefly collaborated with Trans-Influencer Dylan Mulvaney in April 2023. The company lost no less than $ 1.4 billion in sale after conservatives had boycot.
A similar situation could unfold for Tesla, because new registrations of its vehicles in the US in January fell by 11 percent a year earlier.
Abroad is even more dramatic on Teslas, especially in Europe.
From data released at the beginning of March, Tesla's turnover decreased by 24 percent year after year in the Netherlands, 42 percent in Sweden, 48 percent in both Norway and Denmark, 45 percent in France, 55 percent in Italy, 10 percent in Spain and 53 percent in Portugal.
However, the turnover fell from a cliff in Germany, where 76 percent less Tesla vehicles were sold in February compared to last year.
After the viral moment of Musk, Germany's rejection of Germany came to the inauguration where he was seen that made a controversial hand gesture.
