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Tesla Attacks Investigated & Trump Battles Legal Injunctions | 3.20.25
Thu, 20 Mar 2025
Musk sits in the spotlight as he and Tesla weather attacks, a Daily Wire investigation takes you inside the now-shuttered Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and Trump is challenging the authority of judges standing between him and his agenda. Get the facts first with Morning Wire.Balance of Nature: Go to https://balanceofnature.com and use promo code WIRE for 35% off your first order as a preferred customer PLUS get a free bottle of Fiber and Spice.Beam: Head to https://shopbeam.com/WIRE and use code WIRE at checkout for up to 40% off.
Chapter 1: Why are Elon Musk and Tesla under attack?
Once the darling of the left, Elon Musk and Tesla are now under attack by Democrats.
They basically want to kill me because I'm stopping their fraud. And they want to hurt Tesla because we're stopping this terrible waste and corruption in the government.
I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Thursday, March 20th, and this is Morning Wire.
Chapter 2: What did the Daily Wire investigation uncover about federal agency corruption?
A new Daily Wire exclusive investigation reveals just how deep the corruption went at a now-shuttered federal agency.
And a handful of judges are halting a number of Trump's executive actions, setting up numerous legal showdowns.
Chapter 3: How is Trump responding to legal challenges against his executive actions?
We have judges who are acting as partisan activists from the bench.
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Chapter 4: What incidents are occurring at Tesla facilities nationwide?
Elon Musk remains in the spotlight this week with attacks on Tesla facilities continuing nationwide and the tech mogul working to bring home stranded astronauts.
Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips has the details. So Cabot, let's first start with the disturbing and growing trend of Tesla facilities being targeted. What's happening there?
Yeah, this week alone, we saw a Tesla facility attacked with Molotov cocktails and firearms in Las Vegas. In that incident, the perpetrator spray painted the word resist across walls and doors. The day before, we saw a similar case in a dealership in Kansas City with multiple cars being set ablaze.
There were separate attacks at dealerships and charging stations across Massachusetts, South Carolina, Washington. The list goes on and on. And it's not just Tesla dealerships being hit. Dozens, if not hundreds, of individual owners have also been targeted.
Social media has been flooded in recent days with security footage of Tesla owners finding their cars keyed, spray-painted, or with busted-out windows. And Musk himself has received numerous credible death threats as well in recent weeks. In one case, an Indiana man was arrested after threatening to kill him. Police found multiple guns and ballistic vests in his house.
Here's Musk talking with Sean Hannity about those attacks earlier this week.
Tesla is a peaceful company. We've never done anything harmful. I've never done anything harmful. I've only done productive things. So there's some kind of mental illness thing going on here because this doesn't make any sense.
This week, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a statement saying the DOJ is treating attacks on Tesla dealerships and owners as domestic terrorism because of their political nature. Bondi says perpetrators will be hit with five-year mandatory minimum sentences, and there will be severe consequences for, quote, those operating behind the scenes to coordinate and fund these crimes.
Here she is on Fox Tuesday.
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Chapter 5: How are recent events affecting Tesla's stock?
Yeah, since Musk took on a more prominent role in the Trump administration, Tesla has been just hammered on Wall Street with nine straight weeks of losses. They're now down 53% from their all-time high back in December. Many on the left have celebrated that news, saying not only should folks stop driving Teslas, but they should sell their stock in the company as well.
At that point, here's former VP candidate Tim Walz yesterday.
Saying on my phone, I know some of you know this on the iPhone, they've got that little stock app. I added Tesla to it to give me a little boost during the day. $2.25 and dropping.
White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt had this to say about Walz celebrating Tesla's stock fall.
I think that's quite sad, but I think Governor Walz unfortunately is living a sad existence after his devastating defeat on November 5th.
And it's worth noting, Fox reported that at latest count, Minnesota, where Walz is governor, held more than 1.6 million shares of Tesla stock in its state retirement fund.
Well, we did have some good news for Musk this week, though. Tell us about his role bringing home the astronauts stranded on the ISS.
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Chapter 6: How did Elon Musk help bring astronauts back from the ISS?
Definitely a wild story here. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were originally supposed to spend just eight days aboard the ISS, but they spent nine months trapped in space after their Boeing Starliner ship malfunctioned. Musk says that he immediately offered to rescue them with one of his SpaceX craft, but was rebuffed by the Biden administration.
However, he says Trump gave him the green light to bring them home and NASA partnered with SpaceX to go get them.
the pair along with two other astronauts on the rescue mission splashed down safely on tuesday ahead of their return one of those stranded astronauts butch wilmore had a message of thanks for musk and president trump all of us have the utmost respect for mr musk and obviously respect and admiration for our president of the united states uh donald trump we appreciate them we appreciate all that they do for us of our human space flight for our nation
Now, beyond the joy in bringing those two home safely, the saga marked a major victory for Musk as, again, it reaffirmed SpaceX's dominance in the field.
Well, and just a significant accomplishment by itself. Cabot, thanks for reporting.
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On Friday, President Trump signed an executive order eliminating or drastically shrinking seven small agencies and boards.
The agencies include the United States Agency for Global Media, which funds state media like Voice of America, the Minority Business Development Agency, and four smaller boards. The Daily Wire's government efficiency reporter, Luke Rosiak, spent a year investigating the final target, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and uncovered some remarkable things. Hey, Luke.
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Chapter 7: Which agencies did Trump eliminate with his executive order?
This is an agency that, prior to the pandemic, had a nine-story office tower in K Street for only 60 employees. Its hallways were lined with oil paintings of those employees and other artwork purchased from the boss's wife with government funds.
So a nine-story building for 60 people with their portraits on the wall. What did they use all that space for?
Good times, I guess. They built an in-house gym. They had a smoking lounge, showers in their office. This was an agency that was created to offer voluntary mediation services between businesses and unions. But plenty of private arbitrators already do that. So the main purpose of FMCS kind of became, as far as I could tell, just a slush fund for its employees. They had an office in Honolulu.
And basically, they would just commit what seemed like fraud in a way that was shocking. I mean, they listed the boss, Scott Beckenbaugh, as being on a six-year-long business trip to D.C. so that his rent and all of his meals would be paid for by the government just for showing up for work every day. He wouldn't have to dip into his $174,000 salary. They put relatives on the payroll.
They steered $1,500 a day contracts to friends. Well, a lot of this sounds pretty clearly like fraud. Have there been any complaints to that effect?
Yes, and any time a whistleblower or auditor, one of which actually I think wanted to make an FBI referral, raised issues, they would fire that person. One time they escorted a lady out of the building with armed guards for calling attention to the way they were using these purchase cards.
One accountant wrote an email to the General Services Administration warning about how they were abusing those cards, and then Director George Cohen forced her to write an email rescinding it. Now, FMCS employees actually did something called unblocking their government purchase cards, which removed restrictions against abuse, and then used them to buy whatever they wanted.
One leased a BMW, another paid for his wife's cell phone and cable TV at his vacation home, including an extra package for the golf channel. They had a recreation fund, they called it, that they used to buy champagne and $200 coasters for that champagne.
That sounds like a good time. I have to read this quote from your story because it seems like employees were
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