On Wednesday morning, Martin Tripp was an out-of-work Tesla technician trying to figure out what to do next.
By the end of the day, he had been sued by his former employer for alleged hacking and theft, engaged in a hostile email exchange with Elon Musk, come out as a whistleblower, and was being patted down by sheriff’s deputies over allegations that he was threatening to go to his former workplace and “shoot the place up”.
“I’m a scapegoat because I provided information that is absolutely true,” Tripp told the Guardian on Wednesday evening. “This is obscene … It feels like I have no rights as a whistleblower.”
On Thursday, after the local sheriff’s office had announced that there was no credible threat to the Gigafactory, Tripp commented further: “They’re trying to do everything they can to silence me and trying to set an example so that no one else will talk to the press.”
Tripp’s dispute with the electric car companyerupted into a high-stakes round of he-said/Tesla-said when it filed a federal lawsuit against him on Wednesday.
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