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Lawmakers Demand Answers From Rubio Over the $400 Million Armored Tesla Contract
A Senator and a Congressman have sent letters to the Secretary of State demanding he answer questions about a scandal that probably doesn’t exist.
The letters concern a Biden-era State Department contract for armored Teslas that, if fulfilled, would have enriched the Elon Musk-owned company to the tune of $400 million. Someone at State also went back to the original procurement document and changed the word “Tesla” to “electric vehicle.” In the journalism business, we call this a “stealth edit,” and it tends to make you look guilty. “This concern was exacerbated by the fact that the vehicle in question was a Tesla Cybertruck, a failed experiment of a car which has been subject to numerous recalls since its announcement, and would not reasonably be considered for this purpose absent a heavy thumb on the scale,” Blumenthal said.
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