Washington – Rep. Robert Garcia, a Democratic darling from Long Beach, faces scrutiny from President Trump for his recent comments on Elon Musk.
Garcia has twisted musk several times since the billionaire began using his newly created government ministry of efficiency or the federal government’s mission. In several media interviews, Garcia called for increasing threshold supervision, including issuing subpoenas to Musk.
However, recent comments about bringing “actual weapons” into the US democratic battle have attracted the attention of federal prosecutors Who sent a letter to Garcia Warning his comments are too inflamed.
Garcia escalated his remarks last week at a gatekeeper subcommittee meeting when he brought out poster-sized image of musk and used vulgar people to mention it.
Garcia said he was inspired by another member of the committee, Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), whose tenure was his. Show photos At the 2023 House Oversight Committee meeting, former President Biden’s son engaged in sexual acts, accusing the photos of “evidence of Hunter Biden’s production of pornography.”
Garcia used vulgarity and signaled Musk’s poster, saying: “Now, we know this is President Elon Musk. He is also the richest person in the world. . He was the largest political donor in the last election. He had billions of dollars in conflicts of interest, and we know he was leading the snatch of power, and was also followed and encouraged by Donald Trump, and of course, too Encouragement from the chairman heroine Greene.”
Since Trump took office, Democrats have been very divided over the changes Trump and Musk imposed on the federal government this month. But Garcia is the former mayor of Long Beach, and he enjoys strong support for party leaders such as Biden (such as Biden) and Gov. Gavin Newsom.
His provocative remarks aroused the anger of Washington. When asked during a CNN interview Garcia digs on his heel Again, using a vulgar phrase: “I think he hurt the American public in a huge way, too. I think what really matters is that the demand for the American public is to bring actual weapons to this bar battle. It’s a The actual struggle for democracy.”
U.S. Attorney Edward Martin and Trump nominee sent Garcia on Monday A letter, Ask him to “clearize” [his] Comments in CNN interviews”.
“It sounds like a threat to Mr. Musk and the government staff who work for him,” Martin wrote in the letter. “Their concerns led to this inquiry.”
Rep. Nancy Mays (RS.C.) also calls for the house Condemn Garcia In his comments, they were called “dangerous and dangerous”.
“His words are the lowest form of political beating. But because it is one of their own, the left remains silent,” Metz said in a statement. “This double standard is disgusting.”
Garcia mocked their reaction and said in a statement: “No rational person would see my comment as a threat. We live in a dangerous time and elected members of Congress must have the right to force oppose it.” Trump administration. We won’t be silent.”
Martin’s email to Garcia is part of a broader effort in his office, called Operation Tornado to pursue threats to public officials, i.e. According to the Washington Post.
His office also sent multiple letters to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (DN.Y.) to post his 2020 comment on the Supreme Court’s decision on abortion, when he warned conservatives about his 2020 comments on the Supreme Court’s decision on abortion, when he warned conservatives. Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh, you will pay for it. If you make these horrible decisions, you won’t know what it is Strike. ”
Schumer said in a speech to the Senate the next day that he “has no intention to raise any political and public opinion consequences for the Supreme Court, which is a serious distortion that implies anything else.”
