Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene accuses Rep. Jasmine Crockett of ‘terrorism’ | EUROtoday

MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has accused Rep. Jasmine Crockett of orchestrating “political violence and terrorism” and has made her considerations identified to Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel.

“A Member of Congress is organizing political violence and terrorism,” the controversial Georgia congresswoman wrote on X Thursday in response to a stay stream titled TeslaTakedown.

The stream included a number of audio system on Wednesday, together with Crockett, who mentioned plans for non-violent political protests towards Elon Musk’s billion-dollar Tesla enterprise.

Attacks towards Tesla autos have been escalating since President Donald Trump’s victory within the 2024 election. Musk aligned himself with the MAGA motion through the marketing campaign path and has grow to be a key determine within the administration.

Crockett mentioned within the livestream that she “was truly here for very selfish reasons.”

“On March 29, it’s my birthday, and all I want to see happen on my birthday is for Elon to be taken down – yes!” she mentioned.

The Democrat mentioned that the whole lot she promoted was non-violent however underscored that it was vital “to stand for freedom in this country and for the constitution.”

“The best way to show that we are American is by using our constitutional rights and deciding we are going to engage in protests,” she defined.

Taylor Greene beforehand verbally fought Crockett throughout a heated committee spat in 2024. Their following interactions, each on-line and in particular person, typically erupt into fiery debates.

The Tesla Takedown Movement, which declares itself a “peaceful protest,” has pledged that Americans scrap and promote their Tesla vehicles and dump any shares and shares they could have in Tesla Inc. in a bid to rally towards the world’s richest man.

Taylor Greene’s feedback thus seem to drill dwelling Trump’s message that any Tesla insurgents, and even those that have merely declared their disdain for Musk, had been additionally deserving of the “terrorist” label.

Attorney General Pam Bondi introduced individually on Thursday that the Justice Department would convey “severe” prices towards three people accused of focusing on Teslas with arson assaults, following Trump’s vow to clamp down on such incidents as “domestic terrorism.”

For his half, Musk has been courting controversy since he gave a weird salute at a Trump victory ball on Inauguration Day and lately reposted a message on social media that learn: “Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Public sector employees did.”

Trump has additionally made quite a few efforts to defend his Musk’s enterprise by entering into the trendy computerized car exterior of the White House and making quite a few threats to punish the “sick terrorist thugs” in a Truth Social submit early Friday.

The President added that these discovered responsible could be slapped with a 20-year jail sentence and typed a stark message a day earlier on Truth Social that boldly learn: “WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU!!!”

The Independent contacted Tesla and Marjorie Taylor Greene for remark.