Trump administration set to purchase $400 million worth of armored Teslas : NPR No conflict of interest though See?
What's worse, the corrupt arrangement of buying Teslas from Trump's biggest donor, or a civilian government department wanting armored vehicles? Its tough to choose!
Easy to afford if we just cut food stamps (SNAP) for 200,000 kids which is about the same amount. What's the big deal? They can work at McDonalds.
Nothing sketchy about that at all. I wonder what they have in mind to do with them? Crackdowns on US citizens if there are protests and civil unrest?
I kinda wonder how all the dorks that bought them thinking they were cool or anti-establishment feel about them being associated with being government / cop cars in the future.
The funny thing about this is they originally said Tesla’s and then edited to “EV’s” when they were caught.
At least we know if a state department employee wants to turn it into a car bomb with fireworks and gasoline it wont do too much damage
Yet I'm sure some of them are still bitching about Hunter, Burisma, and all the other " Biden crime family" bs.
This says it was done on 12.13.2024. Who was President in Dec? State Department removes mention of 'armored Teslas' from its 2025 procurement list, replaces it with 'armored electric vehicles' The document was titled "Department of State Procurement Forecast Year 2025 (Revised 12/23/2024)." The Tesla line item had last been revised on December 13.
Any government contract with a Musk company should receive extra scrutiny before being signed to make sure it is the best deal for the US.
Good feedback. Obviously a key date if true as all reported. Thank goodness. That would have been surprisingly brazen even for Dear Leader. That’s probably 3.5 - 4k vehicles with maint costs and charging stations. Still the question of why so many and how will they use them. Was Biden admin playing politics setting up a big “EV” buy for trump?
I wondered about the timeline on that as well. I didn't see any way this kind of purchase could make its way through the process in the 3+ weeks Trump has been in office.
