Musk vows to come after lefties like ex-Mamdani volunteer who called tech titan valid military target
Elon Musk vowed to “come after” far-left activists like a former volunteer videographer for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s campaign, who once called the billionaire tech titan a “valid military target.”“If they come after me, I will come after them and finish the job,” Musk wrote Monday on X in response to a post highlighting an investigation by The Free Press into pro-Mamdani Eric Hovagim.Hovagim, 28, is an independent videographer and political content creator who said he volunteered to help film and edit three videos for Mamdani’s Democratic mayoral primary campaign last year.The Arizona native was recently the subject of a profile by The Free Press which noted his outrageous comments like threatening Musk and alleging that the US and Israel are run by “Zionist pedophiles.” He reportedly dismissed allegations of China’s repression of Uyghurs as CIA propaganda and likened America to the “Fourth Reich.”Musk was responding to an X post from investor Joe Lonsdale, who shared The Free Press story with his more than 1 million followers, writing: “This is not a surprise.Sadly, many on the far left are this radical.”“But how do we get this reality to pierce the insulated media bubbles of the naive left?” Lonsdale wrote.In March, Hovagim took to X and responded to a video showing what appeared to be Iraqi locals recovering a downed US drone, which is alleged to have bore the markings of Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service.That video prompted Hovagim to remark that Musk was a “valid military target.” The Post has sought comment from Hovagim.Hovagim told the Daily Caller News Foundation in November that he volunteered to “film and/or edit” three vids promoting Mamdani’s affordability agenda before the June 2025 Democratic primary and insisted he “never received any payment from the campaign, any PAC or anyone associated with Zohran.”He also said his only dealings were with the campaign’s video team and that t...