Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley slammed the uptick in political violence happening within the United States, accusing members of the Democratic Party of encouraging it.

Tesla vehicles and dealerships have been a common target in recent months due to Elon Musk’s cooperation with the Trump administration, including a Minnesota Department of Human Services employee who totaled over $20,000 in damages to several Tesla vehicles in Minneapolis. Amid these acts against Tesla owners, Whatley suggested it is “stunning” how “liberal, woke progressive folks” are not denouncing them at all.

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“We see a firebombing at a Republican Party office in New Mexico, you see what’s happening with Tesla right now, and the Democrats are encouraging it and supporting it and cheering it on,” Whatley stated on Fox News’s Faulkner Focus. “Right now, I’m very glad that [Attorney General] Pam Bondi is taking this very seriously. She’s treating it as the domestic terrorism threat that it is, and we are starting to see federal investigations into the folks that are perpetuating this.”

Whatley also dished criticism toward Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) in the wake of the revelation that a Minnesota DHS employee was vandalizing Teslas, specifically after the governor went viral last month for celebrating Tesla’s decreasing stock. The RNC chairman argued that Walz should be “ashamed of himself” since there are Minnesota taxpayers who own stock in the electric vehicle company.

The chairman concluded his thoughts by expressing “shame on the Democrats” for not seeking to combat political violence within the nation.

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The state DHS employee, Dylan Bryan Adams, will not face criminal charges over his vandalism. Instead, he will be entered into an adult diversion program meant for first-time, low-level offenders. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara expressed frustration over the Hennepin County attorney’s decision not to charge Adams, as “at least six victims” were affected in this case.

On Monday, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) suggested that the Justice Department ought to be “aggressively” pursuing people who are “knowingly breaking federal law” and undermining the agenda of the U.S. and its residents.