FBI Shoots Down Claims Tesla Attacks Are Coordinated

NBC News reports:

Law enforcement officials and domestic extremism experts say they have found no evidence that a series of attacks on Tesla vehicles and dealerships are coordinated despite such claims from Tesla CEO Elon Musk and President Donald Trump.

At least 10 Tesla dealerships, charging stations and facilities have been hit by vandals, many of whom have lit cars on fire, while a growing collection of videos posted to social media have shown people defacing and damaging Tesla vehicles.

Experts and law enforcement officials nationwide from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the two federal agencies investigating the attacks, all told NBC News they have found no evidence of any coordination around the attacks.

Read the full article. Musk and Trump have repeated claimed that a shadowy unnamed deep state entity is secretly funding and coordinating the vandalism of Tesla vehicles and charging stations. On Thursday, Trump ranted that signs held by Tesla protesters were “obviously professionally printed” – as if you can’t walk into a Staples and whip up a dozen signs in minutes. Below, he responds to GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt.