Is Elon Musk in Trouble?

[johaninsc]

 

[johaninsc]

 

[KaraBulut]

Beryl Howell has run out of patience with Mr Musk.

A federal judge wondered if Elon Musk was trying to 'cozy up' to Trump by trying to inform him about a search warrant into his social media account

In January, federal prosecutors obtained a search warrant to obtain information from Trump's personal Twitter account.

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In January, federal prosecutors obtained a search warrant to obtain information from Trump's personal Twitter account.
Twitter's legal team argued that it needed to inform Trump of the warrant.
The judge asked if this was a result of Twitter owner Elon Musk trying to "cozy up" to Trump.

A federal judge wondered aloud during a hearing with Twitter's counsel if Elon Musk, the company's owner, was trying to "cozy up" with former President Donald Trump by slowing the company's response to Special Counsel Jack Smith's demands.

In a federal court filing of a transcription of a hearing with US District Judge Beryl Howell and the counsels for both Twitter and the government, Howell excoriated Twitter's lawyer for repeatedly insisting that Trump needed to be alerted about the warrant, an action she said the company doesn't normally take when prosecutors get search warrants into users' accounts.

Howell asked Twitter's legal team if the company's demand to inform the former president of the warrant was made solely to get on good terms with Trump, which counsel denied.

 

[Alistair]

 

[johaninsc]

 

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[Alistair]

 

[TX-Beau]

Can you imagine being raised by a pair of puerile toddler men?

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

Whoever made that picture shaved at least 60 pounds off Elon.

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

Well, he is an Afrikaner ...

 

[gsdx]

Whoever made that picture shaved at least 60 pounds off Elon.

I'm still trying to figure out why he has 3 legs.

 

[johaninsc]

Bots...

 

[johaninsc]

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

^ Actually, I think that's the truth, though that's not quite how he would word it. ^

 

[rareboy]

I'll bet they won't do anything about it.

 

[TX-Beau]

^ Actually, I think that's the truth, though that's not quite how he would word it. ^

He tried to get out of buying Twitter, but he'd said enough legally binding bluster that not only did the management at Twitter which was going under force him to go through with it, but they forced him to pay the original price for it.

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

He tried to get out of buying Twitter, but he'd said enough legally binding bluster that not only did the management at Twitter which was going under force him to go through with it, but they forced him to pay the original price for it.

I remember. But I think he actually wanted to buy it in the first place just to give himself a giant megaphone, whatever he may have said about its business prospects.

 

[rareboy]

The craziest(?) but most typical Musk thing ever is that he tried to use the fact that there were millions and millions of bots and fake accounts to get out of buying Twitter.

And now he has all of them as his 'followers' and is likely trying to use the bloated number to set ad rates.

 

[TX-Beau]

I remember. But I think he actually wanted to buy it in the first place just to give himself a giant megaphone, whatever he may have said about its business prospects.

Possibly, but he also bought up something like 10% of Twitter Stock through an intermediary (too stupid not to get caught) then announced that he was going to buy Twitter, and the devalued stock price from the failing company spiked up.

If he hadn't gone ahead and bought Twitter, the Fed was going to pinch him for SEC violations for playing games with the stock market. It's possible that he got too cute for his own good and had to follow through or face the investigation that disappeared after the sale was done.