Twitter Obliterates Elon Musk’s Excuses for Killing Buyout Deal

Back in April, Elon Musk made a $44 billion supply to purchase Twitter earlier than he determined in July that he wished to cancel the deal. But that’s not the way it works once you’ve already made a legally binding dedication. And a brand new court docket submitting from Twitter pokes gap after gap in each grievance the Tesla CEO has made in regards to the buy settlement.

Twitter sued Musk final month, explaining that he was nonetheless on the hook to fork over all that money. Musk countersued and submitted explanations for why he didn’t need the social media firm anymore and Twitter has responded to these claims in a court docket submitting in Delaware unsealed on Thursday.

Twitter didn’t pull any punches within the 127-page submitting, strolling proper as much as the road of calling Musk an idiotic liar with out really utilizing these phrases. But they have been rattling shut.

“The Counterclaims are a made-for-litigation tale that is contradicted by the evidence and common sense,” Twitter stated within the new court filing. The firm known as his complaints “factually inaccurate, legally insufficient, and commercially irrelevant.”

“Musk invents representations Twitter never made and then tries to wield, selectively, the extensive confidential data Twitter provided him to conjure a breach of those purported representations. Yet Musk simultaneously and incoherently asserts that Twitter breached the merger agreement by stonewalling his information requests,” the social media firm continued.

The authorized beatdown continued from there, eviscerating Musk’s claims in regards to the variety of bots on Twitter and the variety of lively customers on the platform—the 2 large points the billionaire takes with the deal.

Whatever excuses Musk can provide you with, he signed an settlement to purchase the corporate at a given value and waived any due diligence. Twitter might have 1000’s of our bodies buried beneath its headquarters in San Francisco and that also wouldn’t change the truth that Musk determined to he had any substantive questions after he signed on the dotted line. He stated he’d purchase Twitter, as-is and with out refunds.

The following screenshots are immediately from Twitter’s court docket submitting on Thursday, generally together with Musk’s unique claims together with Twitter’s response. There are additionally annotations made by Gizmodo to spotlight the really amusing components, corresponding to the truth that Musk is now complaining in regards to the variety of lively customers on the location, however did not attend a gathering about that very matter. Or that Musk’s method of calculating bots on the platform recognized his Twitter account as a probable bot.

There are loads of humorous items to go round once you’re coping with the world’s wealthiest shitposter.