Twitter has responded to Elon Musk’s announcement on Friday that he needs to tug out of a $44 billion deal to purchase the social media firm. And Twitter is pulling no punches, flatly stating that the billionaire Tesla CEO is sure by the settlement he signed and that Musk is knowingly making an attempt to breach that settlement by giving a bunch of nonsense excuses.

The SEC filing, first reported by Reuters, was submitted to the regulatory company on Sunday and solely made public late Monday. And it’s in that submitting the place Twitter plainly states his try to return on the deal over claims that the service has too many bots is “invalid.”

“Mr. Musk’s and the other Musk Parties’ purported termination is invalid and wrongful, and it constitutes a repudiation of their obligations under the Agreement,” the letter from Twitter states.

“Contrary to the assertions in your letter, Twitter has breached none of its obligations under the Agreement, and Twitter has not suffered and is not likely to suffer a Company Material Adverse Effect. The purported termination is invalid for the independent reason that Mr. Musk and the other Musk Parties have knowingly, intentionally, willfully, and materially breached the Agreement,” the letter continues.

“As it has done, Twitter will continue to provide information reasonably requested by Mr. Musk under the Agreement and to diligently take all measures required to close the transaction.”

Musk has insisted he’s involved in regards to the variety of bots on the platform, one thing he initially mentioned he’d like to assist repair as a motive to purchase Twitter. But loads of commentators have been skeptical from the beginning that Musk even wished to purchase the corporate, as an alternative pointing at ulterior motives. One such motive was offloading a ton of shares in Tesla to purchase the corporate—shares he offered when the electrical car firm’s inventory worth was close to an all-time excessive.

The 51-year-old SpaceX founder began this weird journey by shopping for up a big chunk of Twitter inventory and never disclosing the transaction inside the authorized time frame for doing so. Musk secretly nabbed 9.2% of the corporate again in April, changing into Twitter’s largest shareholder, however the billionaire was legally required to publicly disclose after he’d bought 5% of the corporate, one thing he didn’t do and profited properly from. Then Musk tried a hostile takeover of Twitter, threatening to promote his large stake if he wasn’t allowed to purchase the corporate outright at an enormous markup.

Twitter is anticipated to file a lawsuit to power Musk’s hand someday this week, in line with Reuters, although it’s not clear if Musk will get away with merely a slap on the wrist or be compelled to make an enormous payout.

Musk has been taunting Twitter over the previous few days with memes, making an attempt to fake that he’s not in critical authorized jeopardy given the stunt he’s at present pulling.

But perhaps he actually doesn’t have any trigger to fret. He is the wealthiest particular person on the planet, in spite of everything. And the rich have a approach of not dealing with penalties for actually something. Only time will inform if Musk is the primary wealthy man to ever pay an enormous worth for shady exercise. We’re not holding our breath.