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<blockquote data-quote="RobGMN" data-source="post: 8895776" data-attributes="member: 683408">The $400,000,000 that was specifically earmarked for Teslas until the public found out, then they reworded it to &quot;electric vehicles&quot;..I know details and facts mean little to you, but it went something like &quot;The State Department said Thursday it is abandoning plans of purchasing $400 million worth of armored Tesla vehicles after a public document detailing federal contracts for fiscal year 2025 gained wide attention.&quot;If there was not a plan to spend $400,000,000 on Teslas, WHY would the state department make a statement that they were abandoning the plan?[ATTACH=full]64461[/ATTACH]Read this VERY closely: &quot;After the original procurement document attracted widespread attention, NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g-s1-48571/trump-administration-order-400-million-worth-of-armored-teslas" target="_blank">reported</a> that the Trump administration appeared to have quietly edited the document, changing the phrase “armored Tesla” to the more generic “armored electric vehicles” without explanation. Eventually, the item vanished from the State Department’s procurement document.The document claims it was originally published in December, at the end of former President Joe Biden’s term, but it does not appear in the Internet Archive for that month.&quot;Critical thinking and due diligence.You should really try them sometime.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RobGMN, post: 8895776, member: 683408"] The $400,000,000 that was specifically earmarked for Teslas until the public found out, then they reworded it to "electric vehicles".. I know details and facts mean little to you, but it went something like[I] "The State Department said Thursday it is abandoning plans of purchasing $400 million worth of armored Tesla vehicles after a public document detailing federal contracts for fiscal year 2025 gained wide attention."[/I] If there was not a plan to spend $400,000,000 on Teslas, WHY would the state department make a statement that they were abandoning the plan? [ATTACH type="full" alt="1744073550571.png"]64461[/ATTACH] Read this VERY closely: [I]"After the original procurement document attracted widespread attention, NPR [URL='https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g-s1-48571/trump-administration-order-400-million-worth-of-armored-teslas']reported[/URL] that the Trump administration appeared to have quietly edited the document, changing the phrase “armored Tesla” to the more generic “armored electric vehicles” without explanation. Eventually, the item vanished from the State Department’s procurement document.[U]The document claims it was originally published in December, at the end of former President Joe Biden’s term, but[/U] [U][B]it does not appear in the Internet Archive for that month."[/B][/U][/I] Critical thinking and due diligence. You should really try them sometime. [/QUOTE]

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