Elon Musk Spars With Bernie Sanders, Offers to Sell More Tesla Stock

Tesla CEO Elon Musk uses his mobile device as he sits in the car arriving to the construction site for the new plant, the so-called "Giga Factory", of U.S. electric carmaker Tesla in Gruenheide near Berlin, northeastern Germany, on May 17, 2021. ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk got into a spat with social democrat Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday after the U.S. senator demanded the “extremely wealthy” pay their ”fair share” of taxes.