AG Pam Bondi requires Jasmine Crockett to apologize to Texas and Tesla ‘shareholders’ for Elon Musk criticism | EUROtoday

Attorney General Pam Bondi known as on Texas congresswoman Jasmine Crockett to apologize for current feedback calling for Elon Musk to be “taken down,” claiming the feedback are driving violence and “insurrection.”

“She needs to unequivocally denounce the violence,” Bondi mentioned throughout an interview Monday night time on Fox News’s Hannity. “She must apologize immediately, not only to all Texans, but to our country, to the American shareholders of Tesla, because she is prompting violence.”

The feedback got here as Teslas and services tied to the EV model have confronted violence and threats, together with in Texas.

The Independent has contacted Rep. Crockett’s workplace for remark.

Last week, Crockett, a Democrat, mentioned she hoped to see Musk “taken down” as a part of a protest push calling itself the Tesla Takedown Movement, although mentioned moments later she meant that figuratively and asserted that “everything that I am promoting is non-violent.”

Nonetheless, the feedback have roiled the MAGA proper.

Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene accused Crockett of “organizing political violence and terrorism,” whereas Bondi has mentioned elsewhere that Crockett should “tread carefully,” given the administration’s bigger effort to crack down on these making violent threats towards Musk and Tesla.

Crockett has claimed it’s the Trump administration that’s offering political cowl for insurrectionists, fairly than critics of Tesla and Musk.

“I have never promoted violence whatsoever, yet I’ve also never made [an] excuse for those violent actors such as the ones on January 6,” she informed MSNBC final week, referring to President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons for insurrectionists charged with crimes throughout Capitol riots.

Tesla automobiles, dealerships, and charging stations have persistently been targets of protests and assaults since Donald Trump took workplace and made Musk a key accomplice overseeing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative that has led to mass layoffs, finances cuts, and makes an attempt to shutter a number of federal companies.

Anonymous people have additionally created an internet site purporting to indicate the areas of Tesla services and people tied to DOGE. The cursor on the web site is a Molotov cocktail.

Bondi introduced final week that the Justice Department is bringing “severe” expenses towards three people accused of concentrating on Teslas with arson assaults, following the White House’s vow to deal with such incidents as home terrorism.

Federal officers have additionally launched a terrorism taskforce to research the Tesla assaults.

Trump has taken issues a step additional, suggesting that those that goal Teslas may very well be despatched, in what would quantity to an unprecedented and doubtlessly unlawful transfer, to a infamous Salvadoran jail on the middle of the continuing Venezuelan deportation flights lawsuit.