Washington – Rep. Robert Garcia, a democratic favorite from Long Beach, stands before the Ministry of Justice of President Trump for his recent comments on Elon Musk.
Garcia has pushered Musk several times since the billionaire began to delete the federal government with its newly created Department of Government Efficiency or Dog. In several media interviews, Garcia has demanded increasing monitoring of Doge, including the issue of a summons to Musk.
A recent comment on the introduction of “actual weapons” in a struggle for American democracy caused the attention of a federal prosecutor. the Garcia sent a letter Warning that his comments were overly inflammatory.
Garcia escalated his rhetoric last week at a meeting of Dogen underprmits when he brought in a picture of musk in poster size and referred to it with a vulgarity.
Garcia said Showed photos At a meeting of the Haus Supervisory Committee in 2023, the son of the former President Biden, who dealt with sexual acts, the photos claimed “Evidence of the Pornography of Hunter Biden”.
Garcia used the vulgarity and set off on Muschus' poster and said: “Now we know that this is President Elon Musk. He is also the richest man in the world. He was the greatest political donor in the last election. He has billions of dollars of conflicts of interest, and we know that he leads a power grave that is also encouraged by Donald Trump and of course the chairman of the Congress Member Green by Donald Trump and. “
Democrats were largely divided into the flood of changes that Trump and Musk have imposed on Trump since the inauguration of Trump in the month. But Garcia, a former mayor of Long Beach, who strongly supported party leaders such as Biden in office and governor Gavin Newsom, chose an aggressive approach.
His provocative rhetoric went into Washington. When asked in a CNN interview, Garcia Grub in the heels, Once again a vulgarity and says: “And I think that it also harms the American public in an enormous way. And what I think is really important and what the American public wants is that we bring actual weapons into this bar fight. This is an actual struggle for democracy. ”
On Monday, Edward Martin, the US lawyer of Washington, DC and a Trump candidate, sent Garcia A letter ,, Ask him to “clarify his comments” from the CNN interview.
“That sounds like a threat to Mr. Musk … and government employees who work for him,” wrote Martin in the letter. “Your concerns have led to this request.”
Rep. Nancy Mace (Rs.c) also requested the house Censure Garcia In his comments she called “dangerous and disturbed”.
“His words are the lowest form of political fight. But because it is its own, the left is silent, ”said Mace in an explanation. “This double standard is disgusting.”
Garcia mocked her reactions and said in a statement: “No reasonable person would consider my comments as a threat. We live in a dangerous time and elected congress members must have the right to violently oppose the Trump administration. We are not silent. “
Martin's e -mail to Garcia is part of a broader effort of his office entitled “Operation Whirlwind” to pursue threats to civil servants who Washington Post reported.
His office also sent several letters to Senate the Senate Leader Chuck Schumer (DN.Y.) for comments that he made about the decision of the Supreme Court in 2020 when he warned conservative Justice Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh: “You have: “You have published the whirlwind and you pay the price. You will not know what you have done if you drive these terrible decisions. “
The next day, Schumer said in a speech in the Senate that “he proposed nothing more than political and public opinion consequences for the Supreme Court, and it is a gross distortion to imply something else.”