Pretty sure ended up buying Twitter because the courts made him.
So Taylor Swift is going to buy it next?
Why settle your jet-tracking beef when you can just eat it?
I think he got talked into thinking the Twitter files were real.

I wouldn't doubt that was his initial motivation for making the suggestions.
I also remember that he tried to back out of buying Twitter multiple times. While doing so he was pretty public about all the crazy crap he would do with Twitter.
Despite all that Twitter went to a judge and got them to force Musk to complete the sale. He's a crappy CEO for Twitter but it's kind of on the former Twitter leadership for forcing that situation.
Assuming this is true, there are methods to have the same result that are way less expensive...
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