‘Stunning’: Marsha Blackburn Blasts Dem Leaders For Failing To Stand Against Tesla Attacks
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Morning Wire in an interview released on Thursday that she is stunned to see Democratic leaders fail to call out “acts of domestic terrorism” as Tesla dealerships and owners across the United States have been subjected to brazen acts of vandalism and violence.
Blackburn, who introduced a resolution in the Senate to condemn the attacks against Tesla, said that “Democratic leadership is not standing up and calling out these acts of domestic terrorism.” The American electric car company has faced an onslaught of violence as leftists take out their frustrations with Trump’s senior adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tesla owners and dealers.
The GOP senator said that it appears the attacks on Tesla are out of “hatred” for President Donald Trump and Musk’s efforts through the Department of Government Efficiency to “root out all waste, fraud, and abuse” within the federal government.
“The leftists have to have a big government structure to survive. That is their mother’s milk, if you will,” Blackburn told Morning Wire.
“It is stunning that we are seeing this take place, and that Democratic leadership is not standing up and calling out these acts of domestic terrorism,” she added. “We have lived through four years, where every time you turned around, they were talking about domestic terrorism, they were calling parents that went to school board meetings ‘domestic terrorists.’ They were calling individuals that would stand across the street from a Planned Parenthood and pray for the women and the unborn children, and they would call that ‘domestic terrorism.’”
Listen to Sen. Blackburn’s entire interview on Morning Wire below:
Last week, the FBI released a bulletin, warning against attacks on Teslas, which “have involved arson, gunfire, and vandalism, including graffiti expressing grievances against those the perpetrators perceive to be racists, fascists, or political opponents.”
Earlier this week, an incendiary device was found inside a Tesla showroom in Austin, Texas, and had to be promptly removed by a police bomb squad. Last week, a suspect allegedly lit two Tesla vehicles on fire and shot at them at a Las Vegas Tesla facility in what law enforcement officials described as a “targeted attack.” Numerous videos posted online have also shown perpetrators keying and damaging parked Tesla vehicles.
Blackburn is not alone in using the term “terrorism” to describe the attacks on Tesla. Last Friday, President Trump said that he “view[s] these people as terrorists.”
“These are, when I looked at those showrooms burning and those cars — not one or two, like seven, eight, ten, burning, exploding all over the place — these are terrorists,” Trump added.
Blackburn added that Senate Republicans believe the resolution condemning the attacks is “appropriate” and necessary as it will give members of each party “the opportunity to stand up and say, ‘We condemn these attacks.'”
