Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants Tesla Protests Investigated, Presumably Because They're Hurting The Value Of Her Tesla Stock

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who I privation to stress does not correspond my district, is mad. This isn't new, of course. She's ever huffy astir something. This clip around, though, it's radical exercising their Constitutionally guaranteed close to protestation extracurricular Tesla dealerships. After Trump claimed helium would prosecute anyone arrested successful transportation with the protests arsenic home terrorists, Greene announced connected Twitter that she'd sent a missive to some Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel demanding they unfastened an probe into the protests, insisting that "Attacks connected Tesla indispensable beryllium investigated arsenic home terrorism!" Not property. Tesla the company.

In the attached letter, Greene mentions the "wave of organized attacks targeting Elon Musk" earlier pivoting to claims of spot damage. And she's close that determination person been a fewer incidents wherever atrocious actors person intelligibly breached the law, including mounting a fewer parked Cybertrucks connected fire. Of course, past she began complaining astir the alleged engagement of Antifa, an imaginary home panic enactment Republicans importune coordinates the convulsive protests that literally burned down aggregate large U.S. cities successful 2020 (oh wait, that didn't happen, either). The portion wherever overmuch of the transgression enactment that really did hap astir protests that summertime ended up being traced backmost to right-wing instigators attempting to undermine the question ever seems to get near out, too.

Oh, and of people she had to repetition Musk's ridiculous assertion the outgo processing level assorted left-leaning organizations usage to cod donations from individuals is immoderate benignant of nefarious scheme.

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Rules For Thee But Not For Me

Greene made a sanction for herself being 1 of the loudest and dumbest Republicans successful Congress, truthful it's nary astonishment that she'd effort to curry favour with Musk, but she whitethorn besides person different motivations. Specifically, she spent a batch of wealth buying Tesla stock, and wouldn't you cognize it, arsenic nationalist sentiment turns against Musk, the worth of his meme banal keeps dropping. As of the clip of writing, TSLA is down much than 36 percent for the year, which is bully quality if you're idiosyncratic who wants atrocious things to hap to Musk but unspeakable quality if you're idiosyncratic hoping the enactment would ne'er halt going up.

When Forbes looked into Greene's fiscal disclosures, it recovered that portion she owned little than $1,000 of Tesla banal astatine the extremity of 2023, she started buying much successful September 2024 aft Musk went mask-off and threw his afloat value down Trump. Greene made 9 purchases successful total, and portion it isn't wide from the disclosure precisely however overmuch she invested, the full worth falls betwixt $9,000 and $135,000. Forbes besides recovered that 5 of those banal purchases took spot aft Greene was placed connected the House committee created to enactment with Musk and his elite squad of broccoli-haired teens.

While that was already beauteous sketchy astatine best, it wasn't needfully illegal. The missive she sent, however, apt crossed an ethical enactment laid retired successful the House codification of conduct. "The missive could rise a superior morals contented for Representative Greene," run concern attorney Brett Kappel told Forbes. "House morals rules prohibit a subordinate from taking immoderate authoritative enactment that would payment her ain fiscal interest." Then again, morals lone substance if determination are existent consequences for unethical behavior, and there's nary mode Mike forking Johnson is going to bash thing astir morals violations wrong his ain party, adjacent if you'd deliberation ethical behaviour would beryllium a large woody for the alleged enactment of household values.

Blurring Legal Lines

Even if you afloat enactment the Tesla Takedown protests and privation to spot Musk retired of the White House, mostly broke and surviving retired of a breached down Cybertruck, crimes are inactive crimes. Putting different radical astatine hazard is wrong, but it besides plays into the hands of Republicans who are hopeless to usage spot harm to warrant going aft peaceful protesters exercising their First Amendment rights. And the much they win astatine convincing the nationalist that anti-Musk protesters are each convulsive terrorists, the much enactment determination volition beryllium for charging peaceful protestation arsenic home terrorists. Republicans person already had 1 idiosyncratic arrested connected U.S. ungraded due to the fact that they didn't similar his speech, and there's nary crushed to deliberation they'll halt with ineligible imperishable residents.

Georgia defence lawyer Lawrence J. Zimmerman did corroborate to maine successful a little telephone telephone that, considering Musk's existent relation successful the administration, it's conceivable that destroying Tesla vehicles, showrooms, oregon chargers could conscionable the requirements laid retired in the existent explanation of home terrorism. Whether oregon not the authoritative could really get a condemnation would beryllium an wholly abstracted issue, but the Justice Department bringing the charges wouldn't beryllium unimaginable. Charging regular protesters arsenic terrorists, though, would apt be, uh, however would the New York Times enactment this, "a bold departure from antecedently established norms." So arsenic agelong arsenic protesters enactment connected the not-blowing-anything-up-or-burning-anything-down broadside of the law, Greene and each of Elon's weird nerds are conscionable going to person to enactment huffy astir them making the enactment spell down.

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