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War Against Musk - March 10th, Hour 1

Elon Musk has put a lot of his personal life on hold while he helps President Trump and America.  Sean shares stories from around the country where X and Tesla are under attack and there are literal death threats. What has this guy done besides help Americans?!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I want to start with something different here.
I cannot believe what is happening and the reaction that the left is having towards President Trump and Elon Musk.
And I just spent a lot of time thinking about this this weekend, and then I started doing some research.
And, you know, whether you like Elon Musk, don't like Elon Musk, it's irrelevant to me.
All I know is this, and I have not had long enough conversations.
He is saying that if this country continues to spend as it is spending, we will go broke.
This is the first time in our adult lives, and this goes back to the Reagan years and the Grace Commission, that anybody has ever seriously taken on the issue of waste, fraud, abuse, corruption.
And I think when all is said and done, we're going to have hundreds of billions, if not over a trillion dollars in taxpayer money saved.
It doesn't seem to be very well known that the average American makes $66,000 a year.
By the time you pay your rent, your mortgage, your car payment, your insurance, by the time you put groceries in your kitchen, most people, and clothes on your back, I mean, you don't have a lot left after that.
I mean, that is the cost of living.
That's what it costs these days.
And I see what they are doing to this man and understand why this is mostly happening.
Because, number one, he went out, he took a position, and you take a political position and you're in business, you definitely run a risk, but you don't expect to be treated this way.
And a lot of this is rooted in his support of Donald Trump.
He has with a, you know, he's been out there showing the country what is now over $100 billion in waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption.
I am grateful for that.
He has put a lot of his own life's business on hold to serve the country and to serve the president, and he's working for free.
When he was needed before the election, and people in the northwestern side of North Carolina, people in Tennessee, and then later people in the Pacific Palisades and people in California, when they had no communication with the outside world, he provided Starlink for all of these people.
He has been on the cutting edge of space technology with SpaceX and has successfully become the first company to ever launch rockets into orbit.
Now he's even figured out a way to retrieve them so that they could be reused again.
And he is going to, probably in the next three weeks or so, go up and rescue these astronauts that were abandoned in space.
He offered to do it for Biden and Harris, and they didn't want him to do it.
And I pray that he's successful in doing so.
Democrats, I guess, would celebrate any failure.
Not me.
I want these Americans brought home.
And he's been building amazing cars that I thought the left would like.
And this is the opposite of what the government's been trying to force other car companies to do.
They don't want to be in the electric car business, but he has found a way to do it, do it successfully, and make a huge profit in the process because he believed in it going back as early as 2002.
I am very pro-choice, and I believe in, I once owned a hybrid escalate at one point, and I wanted to try it.
I like new technology.
I thought it was actually a very, very well-built car.
And I just liked it.
I mean, there was nothing not to like about it.
And he's building amazing cars that are different, and he's been successful at it.
He is working on Neuralink that may one day help the blind to see.
I hope he's successful, which couples with artificial intelligence, and it would help people with spinal cord injuries be able to walk.
Over these years, I have never supported boycotts or cancellations, but I'm now watching what they're doing to him and his business.
By the way, it was breaking today.
Elon Musk posted there was and still is a massive cyber attack against X.
He reported this about 1.30, about an hour and a half ago.
We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources.
Either a large coordinated group or country is involved.
And he said that X has suffered periodic outages on Monday morning.
And then I went this weekend as I was thinking about this, and I'm looking at all the reports, and they're all recent.
March 8th, Molotov cocktails, arson, graffiti at Tesla facilities that are attacked in the wake.
Only this all has to do with the fact that he's identifying waste fraud and abuse and helping Donald Trump.
This is all that this is about.
And on January 29th through February 11th, North Carolina, North Colorado woman was arrested, causing between $5,000 and $20,000 in damage to a Tesla dealership.
And according to police, this was vandalized by spray painting Nazi under the dealership's entrance sign and starting small fires on the lot by igniting Molotov cocktails inside of vodka bottles.
She was charged with malicious destruction of property, remains in custody.
Then on March 3rd, in Maryland, graffiti was found at a Tesla dealership a day after demonstrators gathered to protest Musk.
The graffiti said no Musk with a sign that resembles a swastika.
Then I see in Massachusetts, they reported seven Tesla charging stations that they would just set on fire.
I mean, basically, like an act of terrorism.
A Massachusetts man was accused of vandalizing several Tesla vehicles with stickers of Musk in the Boston suburb of Brookline and calling it free speech.
No, that's not free speech when you vandalize somebody else's property.
In Portland, Oregon, the same day, seven shots were fired at a Tesla dealership, damaging three cars and shattering windows.
On March 7th, the day after, at the same Tesla dealership previously vandalized, Northern Colorado police reported an arson at that dealership.
Over 350 protesters gathered at a New York City showroom in New York City.
This was on Saturday as part of a nationwide Tesla takedown.
I see that Europe is now following suit and sales have gone down significantly.
And all because he supports Donald Trump.
And I actually did some research about Teslas this weekend.
Now, I've driven a Tesla thanks to a friend of mine that loves his Tesla, loves it.
And when you look at the Made in America Auto Index, six different Tesla models, six of them, are the most made in America cars.
I like Made in America.
How many years, Linda, have I said I prefer a car that is made in America?
I don't care if it's a Honda, as long as it's made in America and creating American jobs.
And if you have Made in America Auto Index and six of his models, this is the Tesla Model 3 performance, the Model Y long range, the Model Y, the Cybertruck, the Tesla Model S, and the Tesla Model X.
And they have, according to another Made in America index metric from Cars.com, the Tesla Model Y is the most American-made car that is out there.
These are cars made in America that create high-paying career jobs for Americans.
And it's pretty amazing.
Indiana State Police said that last month a 28-year-old is facing a felony count of intimidation after making threats over several months.
This guy posted on his ex-account: we're gunning for you Muskrat.
He has death threats.
On January 22nd, I've got enough bullets for his beep and all the rest of you man-children.
On February 3rd, you've broken the law.
You're on the hit list.
On February 3rd, you're robbing the American people.
We will gut you and parade your corpse through the streets.
On February 16th, I'm going to plant a bomb at Elon Musk's house.
He has children.
Representative Garcia was accused of making a threat against a public official in a letter.
Ed Martin, acting U.S. attorney for D.C., asked Garcia about an interview on fake news, CNN.
What the American public wants is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight.
This is an actual fight for democracy.
In the interview.
It took place the same day.
He held up a photo of Musk during a hearing and called him a male body part.
He wrote, the comment sounds like a threat to Musk and his staff.
Their concerns have led to this inquiry.
We take threats against public officials seriously.
Then he wrote, no reasonable person would view my comments as a threat.
We're living in a dangerous time.
Elected members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump administration.
On TikTok, one woman made a video, a throat-slitting gesture while saying we need to X him.
And by X, I mean formally known as assassination.
This is what this man is living through.
I'm just pointing this out to you.
He then mocked law enforcement, claiming that she had not filed taxes for eight years.
Arrest me.
You don't have enough people to even investigate me at this point.
So I'm going to say, let's assassinate the mother effer.
Musk did respond to that.
Death threat, admission on multiple counts of tax fraud.
Now she's in trouble.
Don't you just love when they admit their crimes on video for the world to see?
A staff member of Boston University shared a graphic on his Blue Sky account of the Doge team that read wanted for treason, dead or alive.
And I can keep going.
You know what this is?
This is the left today.
We saw it on display last week at the joint speech before Congress of President Trump.
And this is now how corrupted they've been.
And I understand that maybe, well, he was never, you know, I don't know.
All I know is what he's doing with waste, fraud, and abuse and corruption is good for the country.
All I know is he's donating his time.
All I know is he helped President Trump win.
All I know is he's put a lot of his own personal life on, you know, on hold.
All I know is he's helped Americans out in their darkest hours, like North Carolina, Tennessee, and California.
I have never, on this program, ever supported a boycott, cancellation, calls for people's firing.
I don't do that.
And I will tell you this.
I think what I'm going to do, and I've talked to Linda about this, there is a way to fight back because now this company is suffering, and that means the employees are going to risk being laid off.
And I don't want those employees laid off.
I don't want them to lose their jobs.
I don't want his business to suffer because he's trying to help out his country.
It's not that he needs my money.
But I think what might be a good idea, we're going to work with the lawyers for iHeartMedia, and I'm going to buy proudly a Tesla.
And I'm going to have a contest, and I'm going to give that Tesla to one of you in this audience as a prize from me.
We have to follow all the different laws, rules, and regulations.
And I bought one for myself, which I think I'm going to do anyway, because I really want one.
Because after I drove my friends, now, by the way, they have this one model, Linda.
I don't know if you've checked this out.
It's their Model S.
Oh, my gosh.
You know, it goes a whopping 1,000.
What is that?
It has over 1,000 horsepower.
Can you believe that?
Over 1,000.
Over 1,000 horsepower.
I'm not kidding.
So that'll get me from 42nd Street to 44th Street in under an hour.
Correct.
Well, not that you can drive that fast, but I mean, it could.
I'm making a joke, of course.
Of course, you're making a joke, but there are very humorless people that sometimes listen and monitor the show.
Okay.
And you can drive it for nearly 400 hours without having to do a recharge.
They have their own insurance that you get from Tesla, assuming that you get past their insurance qualifications.
They got so much good going on here.
So I am going to do that as a just to send a message.
This is so morally corrupt, reprehensible, despicable, and disgusting.
So we're going to figure it out, and we'll have more coming up this week.
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I don't care.
What do I care?
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I don't like what they are doing to Elon Musk.
I think it is, I mean, between the death threats and now attacking his businesses and targeting him and threatening him.
And what has he really done?
I mean, just look objectively.
He supports Donald Trump.
That's strike one.
You can't support Donald Trump, and he advocated, he planted himself in Pennsylvania, spent money to help Donald Trump get elected.
Okay, I'm grateful that he did because I think his efforts paid off big time.
He's identifying, you know, tens, what will soon be hundreds and hundreds of billions in waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption.
We as conservatives have wanted this for decades.
We've not gotten it.
And the left is melting down.
You know, he's put his own life on hold.
He's working for free to serve our country.
You know, he's somebody that also has shown a lot of altruism, helping the people that had no communications with the outside world in North Carolina, Tennessee, California.
He's now going to rescue and take the risky effort of rescuing astronauts.
I saw a lot of people on the left.
You know, a Tesla rocket broke up.
Oh, they were laughing about failure.
I mean, isn't that really the Democrats couldn't stand for mothers that lost their children last week?
They couldn't stand for a 12-year-old boy, young man that beat cancer and has a dream of being in law enforcement and became a secret service agent.
They can't stand for this young man.
Great kid.
I mean, you got to be kind of heartless and soulless.
You can't stand for the wife, a young wife who lost her hero husband, a law enforcement officer.
It can't stand for a young man that's now going to West Point, and the president was able to tell him and inform him during that joint session.
And then here's Elon.
I thought liberals liked electric cars.
They were going to force them into our driveway.
I believe in choice.
I don't think Ford should have to be forced to lose $4.5 billion a year producing cars that their particular clients don't want.
Now, once I drove a Tesla, I'm not going to lie, I was shocked at how great this thing is.
Anyway, so he's building amazing cars that are different.
It's proven to have a huge market.
And because of the demonization, the never-ending attacks against this man, now his business is suffering.
He's building out a robotic arm that might take away menial tasks and one day be affordable for almost any middle-class American.
That would be pretty cool, too.
The greatest thing that he's working on is Neuralink, which may help the blind to see and people with spinal cord injuries walk again.
You know, this is what the left does.
We've experienced over the years these boycotts.
We've experienced calls for cancellations and firings.
You and this audience once helped me out.
Unbeknownst to me, I didn't know until it went viral.
You know, when we found out, what was the name of that coffee maker?
I forget.
Oh, yeah, the Keurig company decided to pull their ads off my show.
And then all of you came to my defense out of nowhere.
And I see it starts going viral.
And people are dropping him three stories off, you know, and smashing them.
People are taking golf clubs and they're smashing them, baseball bats and smashing them.
You know, people are, you know, in safe areas, obviously, in their backyard.
They're taking out guns and they're just shooting them up.
I ended up buying, well, close to 1,000, 500, or 1,000 Kerrig machines, anyone that could prove that they broke it.
On my behalf, I felt an obligation to say, all right, let me get you once they, because Kerrig then gave into the pressure and they went back on the show.
I don't support this boycott cancel culture, silencing voices.
Nonsense.
You know, but I'm not going to sit back and watch somebody that's trying to help us.
Now, in my research of Tesla, I was stunned to find out that they make the most American car.
According to the school's Made in America Auto Index, six of their models are the most Made in America cars out there.
Kelly Blue Book study, Tesla makes the most American cars, according to another Made in America index metric for cars.com.
You know, Tesla, the most American-made car.
That means, okay, most American products.
I'm sure they subcontract out for some of the parts, but these are American jobs that they think they're hurting Elon Musk.
They're not just hurting Elon Musk.
They're hurting all the people that work for Tesla.
Because if this car company continues to get hurt this way, you can't even calculate the impact that it's going to have on people's lives.
And he's facing death threats and everything else in between.
We see vandalism and we see basically it looked like a terror attack.
It's on his charging stations.
I mean, it's unbelievable.
Why?
Because he's exposing waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption and supports Donald Trump.
So I'm working with my radio partners at iHeart, and we're going to give away a Tesla, come up with a contest to give away a Tesla on the show.
I'm going to get one for myself, too.
Now, do I think that's going to make or break Tesla?
No.
But instead of a boycott, I believe in a bycut.
If you're thinking of getting a new car, the only thing I would suggest, maybe try it and see if you like it.
When I rode it, I was blown away.
When I drove my friend's car, I was shocked.
When I saw that they have a model that has 100, I'm sorry, 1,006 horsepower.
This is their Model S plaid.
I couldn't believe it.
When I saw that it has a range of 390 miles, I could not believe it.
When I saw that you can charge this thing with a quick charge in like 17 minutes, I'm like, that blew me away.
Because charging obviously is a big deal.
I just don't drive 400 miles anymore.
So for me, it's like the perfect car.
I could just, you know, I don't have to go to a gas station again.
Went to my gas station recently, and even in Florida, where gas prices are cheap, I'd never have to pay for one again.
I like that idea.
And I get to do it in my own home.
I like doing things in my own home.
So we're going to, you know, stay with us throughout the week.
We'll let you know.
Kevin in Florida.
Kevin, what's going on?
How are you?
Sean, I'm a first-time caller.
I've been listening to Hannah D. Combs Days.
And I've got to give a quick shout out to Katie and Linda.
Katie's amazing.
I want to thank her.
And I can't believe that you've never been to a steak and shake.
I've been saying the longest time.
They're the best.
The double cheeseburger.
I get the double cheeseburger.
The double cheeseburger.
I got two of them.
I ate two of them.
I couldn't stop eating them.
That's why I'm calling you because I heard you say that.
That's why I got to call Sean because I've tried them all, you know, and they're all okay.
I could eat them all.
But steak and shake for the value $6, you know, you get out of there with a double burger and fries and bring a drink.
I usually drink water.
And what a value and the best tasting burger.
And the best fries I've ever had is great.
Trust me, they've got a customer for life now.
Little skinny fries.
But I just wanted to share that with you and thank you.
We love you here in Florida.
Originally from Long Island, I've been here 42 years.
Thank you, buddy.
Florida.
Love Florida.
I'm glad you're here, the free state of Florida.
God bless you.
Keep up the good work and stay safe.
Thank you.
You too, buddy.
Thank you.
Clinton, Utah.
Hey, Clint.
How are you?
I'm good.
I'm good.
Thanks.
Hey, listen, I'm this Elon Musk thing.
I'm as concerned as you are about it.
There is something I think the American people are not understanding, and that it's very simple.
Obviously, there's a lot of ignorance out there, but the bottom line is, Sean, $3,000 for every man, woman, and child in America is what it would take to pay the interest only on our national debt.
You're right.
It's a fortune.
And I don't know.
Maybe Trump needs to get on the air and say, hey, we got to cover this interest in order to maintain our creditworthiness.
And so we're going to have to raise everyone's taxes by $3,000 per person, every person, man, woman, and child, in order just to pay the interest.
To wake people up and help them understand that what Elon is doing is great.
And he could say, well, you know what?
Or we could just let Elon do his job.
America, what would you want?
Well, I mean, overwhelmingly, 70 to 80% of people support what Doge is doing and supports eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse, just like they support Donald Trump removing people that didn't respect our laws, borders, and sovereignty and getting rid of criminals in this country.
Just like they support a balanced budget, just like they support energy dominance, just like they support law and order and the elimination of defund, dismantled, no bail laws, just like they support peace in Europe and peace in the Middle East, which he's working very hard at.
This is probably going to be a very, very pivotal week for the president's efforts to achieve these things.
And we've got to get there.
We can make the world a better place.
Who the hell wants more death and dying?
There's not going to be a Ukraine left if this continues.
Anyway, we can't let the mullahs in Iran have a nuclear weapon either.
You know, this country was founded on freedom, and you know what?
Freedom is what it's all about.
That's why I'm freely going to figure out how to give away a Tesla on this program just to show support.
And what about a boycott instead of a boycott?
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And Hannity gives you more every day.
Sean Hannity.
All right, a lot of ground to cover.
The Maha movement.
We'll tell you more about me going to steak and shake with RFK Jr.
over the weekend.
We're going to play that on Hannity tonight.
Gary Brecca will join in.
We'll have more details on our Tesla giveaway.
I just sick and tired of the vile, vicious hatred towards this man just for supporting the president.
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