Bronson Winslow, a reporter with Restoration News, behind an eye-opening investigative report, joined Liz Collin to discuss the damage and the dark-money donors connected to the recent anti-Tesla campaign.
Winslow uncovered how the “coordinated attacks” have gone mostly unchecked—despite some concerning tactics and financial support.
As Collin pointed out, Minnesota and the Twin Cities have not been spared from Tesla-related protests and even made headlines in national news.
The unwanted attention—and damage to privately-owned Tesla vehicles—came after a state employee, Dylan Adams, was accused of keying at least six Teslas in Minneapolis. Despite causing more than $20,000 in damage, Adams was given diversion by Soros-backed prosecutor Mary Moriarty in Hennepin County.
Tesla attacks in the Twin Cities and beyond
Collin asked Winslow to provide a broader perspective on how widespread the damage and destruction has been.
Winslow explained how “the damage is very extensive. Just for personally-owned Teslas, over a hundred have been vandalized, whether that’s keyed or defecated upon, spray painted, burnt to the ground and that’s about $2 million of damages so far.”
In further adding up the destruction, Winslow said, “the numbers go up even further. There’s about 15 different (electric charging) stalls that have been vandalized and it’s estimated around $12 million worth of damage—and then the dealership damages are about $4.5 million.”
“So aside from the large market cap drop in the stock price with Tesla, you’re looking at about $20 million of personal damages that people on the ground are having to deal with because of the situation,” Winslow added.
Grassroots organizations with dark-money donors?
Collin and Winslow then discussed the financial support behind the anti-Tesla campaign.
Winslow explained that, “When you look into the funding, you start to realize, OK, these are corporate, polished, D.C. establishment-backed groups and the money comes from the same people. You’re looking at the Tides Foundation, you’re looking at Soros, you’re looking at Reid Hoffman and ActBlue. So as much as they like to paint this as a grassroots kind of formation, it’s simply a rendition of BLM. It’s just one more front of the left pushing their own money and puppeteering these ideas for people on the ground.”
In calling out some of the groups involved, Winslow mentioned The Disruption Project—which actually encourages sabotage right out in the open.
Collin pointed out another group, known as Indivisible, that was involved in some of the Tesla-related protests in Minnesota.
Winslow explained how they seem to be yet another group trying to appear like a “grassroots” organization. But like The Disruption Project, Indivisible also appears to have financial support from The Tides Foundation and George Soros.
Winslow provided more details that he uncovered and pointed out how the group Indivisible, since the beginning, was “backed by the Democratic Socialists of America, ACLU, Planned Parenthood, Working Families Party, as well as the Tides Foundation, just no surprise. That’s one connector with most of these groups is there’s Tides money that pours into it.”
The Tesla attacks: Manipulation and the mainstream media
However, one of the key points that Winslow touched upon was the manipulation involved with these groups. While supporters want to feel “connected,” Winslow cautioned how, “it’s all puppeteered, it’s all fabricated, and none of it’s truly representing what I believe most Americans would like to put forward as the ideals of America. And of course, that’s all because there’s litanies of money being pushed in from the left.”
Collin and Winslow also discussed some of the obvious connections between the Black Lives Matter movement, especially during the George Floyd riots, and the recent Tesla attacks.
Winslow explained that “Black Lives Matter was a larger movement and the damages and destruction were a lot more vast. But the same playbook has been applied to Tesla where you see the same groups, Tides, Soros, Hoffman, and all these main name players on the political left that are pushing money into groups that are representing the people and justice.”
The media also played a role, according to Winslow: “And then the aftermath is completely ignored by the media, painted as mostly peaceful. And we find we’ve had the cycle going now from BLM to now to Tesla, as well as there’s been campaigns against Supreme Court justices and they’re all backed by the same people.”
“It seems like they’re just working to destabilize any sense of normalcy in the country and when you follow the same people to the same money with the same goals and the same agendas it starts to line out and I think the American people are seeing that. It’s not about justice, it’s about chaos—and that chaos is beneficial to the donors on the left,” Winslow added.
