Where to start? As you all know, I alleged that the Nikola One was not functional. I will have more details about that later today. But just to give you an idea of the lengths Nikola went to lie, let me tell you the story about when they rolled it down a hill. #Trevorgate
Some of you may remember this video. It was the first time a Nikola Truck was seen moving. But the truck was not functional. I found out that the truck was rolled down a steep hill, so I set out to find out where it happened.
#Trevorgate #NKLAQ
Lined up the mountains and salt flats and found the spot. The lengths they went to scout this place is incredible. Very remote, little traffic, but has a 2 mile 3 percent grade, but no features to betray the grade so they could tilt the camera, so they could make it look level.
There is a reservoir on the other side of the road that reveals the slope, needless to say they kept that out of the frame. But it's a huge hill. We went out there and put our car in neutral and got up to over 55 mph.
You can check it out. It's on the Mormon Trail a couple miles south of Grantsville, Utah. They hit this thing hard on social media. Until this year it was the highest viewed video on their Facebook channel (230k views). They put it in their promotional video to silence skeptics.
Complete fraud. But that's what Trevor's superpower is. He is not afraid to lie to anyone. Investors, top CEOs, military visitors, governors and politicians. His lies are so brazen that people assume they must be true. He's leveraged nothing to a 20 bln empire on this skill.
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