{"id":36969,"date":"2025-03-25T19:01:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T19:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/democrat-decries-fbi-task-force-to-crackdown-on-tesla-attacks-political-weaponization-of-the-doj\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T19:01:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T19:01:33","slug":"democrat-decries-fbi-task-force-to-crackdown-on-tesla-attacks-political-weaponization-of-the-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/democrat-decries-fbi-task-force-to-crackdown-on-tesla-attacks-political-weaponization-of-the-doj\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat decries FBI task force to crackdown on Tesla attacks: &#8216;Political weaponization of the DOJ&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Daniel Goldman, D-N.Y., suggested that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/fbi-launches-task-force-crack-down-violent-tesla-attacks-mitigate-threats?intcmp=tw_fnc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI&#8217;s launch<\/a> of a task force to crackdown on Tesla-related attacks represents &#8220;political weaponization&#8221; of the U.S. Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI\u2019s task force was created in conjunction with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) and will coordinate investigative activity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The FBI has been investigating the increase in violent activity toward Tesla, and over the last few days, we have taken additional steps to crack down and coordinate our response,&#8221; FBI Director Kash Patel noted Monday in a post on X. &#8220;This is domestic terrorism. Those responsible will be pursued, caught, and brought to justice.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/fbi-tells-tesla-owners-vigilant-authorities-pinpoint-focus-stop-violence-former-agent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>KASH PATEL SHARPENS WARNING MESSAGE FOR TESLA \u2018DOMESTIC TERRORISM\u2019 PERPETRATORS AHEAD OF \u2018DAY OF ACTION\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/auto\/make\/tesla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tesla vehicles<\/a> and facilities have been targeted with vandalism, arson, and even gunshots.<\/p>\n<p>But amid the onslaught of crime against the popular electric vehicle manufacturer and its customers, Rep. Goldman is suggesting that the formation of the task force represents a political maneuver.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/tesla-trouble-ontario-dozens-vehicles-damaged-one-location\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TESLA TROUBLE IN ONTARIO: DOZENS OF VEHICLES DAMAGED IN ONE LOCATION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the political weaponization of the DOJ. Trump uses his official authority to defend his benefactor Elon Musk. The FBI then creates a task force to use our law enforcement to \u2018crack down\u2019 on adversaries of Musk\u2019s,&#8221; he tweeted when sharing a Fox News Digital article about the task force launch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where are the Republicans so opposed to \u2018lawfare\u2019?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla co-founder and CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a>, who strongly supported now-President Donald Trump last year ahead of the presidential election, is spearheading an effort to expose waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>He is widely criticized and vilified by the political left.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/domestic-terrorism-hits-tesla-drivers-dealers-former-fbi-field-boss-warns-could-get-worse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SUSPECTED TESLA ARSONISTS HIT WITH FEDERAL CHARGES IN ACTS OF \u2018DOMESTIC TERRORISM\u2019: AG<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This level of violence is insane and deeply wrong. Tesla just makes electric cars and has done nothing to deserve these evil attacks,&#8221; Musk tweeted this month when sharing a post that featured footage of vehicles ablaze in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p><i>Fox News Digital&#8217;s Brooke Singman contributed to this report<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Daniel Goldman, D-N.Y., suggested that the FBI&#8217;s launch of a task force to crackdown on Tesla-related attacks represents &#8220;political weaponization&#8221; of the U.S. Justice Department. The FBI\u2019s task force was created in conjunction with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) and will coordinate investigative activity. &#8220;The FBI has been investigating the increase &#8230; <a title=\"Democrat decries FBI task force to crackdown on Tesla attacks: &#8216;Political weaponization of the DOJ&#8217;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/democrat-decries-fbi-task-force-to-crackdown-on-tesla-attacks-political-weaponization-of-the-doj\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democrat decries FBI task force to crackdown on Tesla attacks: &#8216;Political weaponization of the DOJ&#8217;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}