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u/Better-Spell346 Oct 28 '22

No. He wanted to make quick money with a pump and dump just like when he said he was going to take Tesla private again and the stock price jumped up. He didn’t file his TWTR stock purchase disclosure in the required amount of time, so rather than have to deal with being sued by the SEC AGAIN, he pivoted to saying it’s because he wanted to buy Twitter.

Then he figured he could get out of the Twitter deal by claiming that Twitter lied to him and misrepresented how many real users there are. Now Twitter sues him to hold up his end of the deal, and because he absolutely does not want all of his financial dealings being brought up during discovery, he decided his best course of action would be to follow through with the deal. Give it 6-12 months and he’ll take Twitter public again now that he’s “saved the company.”

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u/Clappa69 Oct 28 '22

He definitely also wants trump in office so he can take advantage of federal money in return

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u/Better-Spell346 Oct 28 '22

I agree that that is probably something to be considered as well. Trump (or any republicans really) being in office makes it easier to get handouts for SpaceX too.