On Tuesday, Conservative political strategist Scott Jennings went OFF on former Biden administration official Neera Tanden on CNN NewsNight.
As the panel discussed the increasing vandalism and violence against Tesla dealerships and Tesla owners, Jennings argued that the acts are “domestic terrorism.”
“The other night, Donald Trump said these are domestic terrorists,” he declared. “I mean, it’s obviously an organized, coordinated effort – however people are communicating with each other to do this to people around the country who chose to buy a Tesla at some point in the past, many of whom I’m sure were Democrats who bought them in the first place – all because their entire political worldview is ruled by their emotions. And that’s the American left right now. It is one angry mob after another willing to take things into their own hands, up to and including keying, firebombing, and otherwise vandalizing cars and car dealerships and charging stations.”
Tanden shot back, “So, when they do it to a Tesla dealership, it’s really bad. But when they do it to the halls of Congress, we should pardon them? Is that your position?”
“No. I’ve never,” Jennings replied. “I know you haven’t been around for a while, so let me educate you about my position about January 6th.”
Tanden sneered, “I’m so sorry.”
“Let me educate. Let me educate you,” Jennings argued. “You don’t need to be condescending to me. So let me educate you about my position! You wanna attack me? Let me. Let me finish. Let me finish it.
There were fireworks on CNN last night between Scott Jennings and the Center for American Progress CEO Neera Tanden over the recent violence on Tesla cars and dealerships.
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Tanden said, “I’m sorry you’re getting emotional.”
Jennings retorted, “Yeah, I’m sorry you’re a condescending person who hasn’t been paying attention to what I do. So here’s the issue. I didn’t support what happened on January 6th and was one of the first Republicans to call it out. I don’t support the pardons. I have repeatedly, just like my friend Ashley here, said that no violence in our political system is acceptable. But this right here, what’s going on with a guy who helps our country, who runs successful companies, who doesn’t have to be doing this, and now one of his companies is under systematic terroristic threat and violence all over the country.”
He added, “And people seem to be laughing about it or fine with it. It’s outrageous. I’ve sat at this table and had people say we should cut Elon Musk from the government totally. He rescued our astronauts today. Is that what we want? The treatment of this guy is outrageous. These people who are doing this need to be found and put in jail and made an example of. That’s my point.”