Posted on 04/15/2022 9:34:48 AM PDT by Red Badger
Elon Musk hit a nerve in Washington DC as the Biden-Harris regime scrambles to intimidate him following his announced plans to acquire Twitter and make it a private company. Reports are coming in that they’ve suddenly launched several investigations into his dealings, none of which seem to have anything to do with Twitter.
BREAKING: As @elonmusk offers to buy the rest of @Twitter a legal source tells @FoxBusiness @SECGov and @TheJusticeDept have launched what he described as a "joint investigation" into a myriad of Musk regulatory issues primarily involving @Tesla https://t.co/TDFLED1XuI
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) April 14, 2022
Among the “crimes” Musk allegedly committed pertain to comments about taking Tesla private. He addressed this during a TED talk earlier:
Elon Musk took the Securities and Exchange Commission to task during a TED appearance Thursday, claiming he had the funding to take Tesla private despite the agency concluding that he had not.
“I should say actually… with Tesla back in the day, funding was actually secured,” Musk said. “I want to be clear about that.”
Musk has been trading blows with the SEC over the agency’s order that his tweets be reviewed by a lawyer before being publicly posted. The order is based on Musk’s decision to send the now-notorious “funding secured” tweet on August 7th, 2018, in which he claimed to have the finances to take Tesla private at $420 a share. (Tesla has been a publicly traded company since 2010.)
The SEC immediately launched an investigation, eventually concluding that, while he had held a few meetings with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, Musk “had never discussed a going-private transaction at $420 per share with any potential funding source, had done nothing to investigate whether it would be possible for all current investors to remain with Tesla as a private company via a ‘special purpose fund,’ and had not confirmed support of Tesla’s investors for a potential going-private transaction.”
Musk has refuted this in a litany of court documents over the past few months, and during the TED appearance, he offered more insight into why he believes the SEC is singling him out. Musk’s appearance in Vancouver was mainly a forum for him to discuss his recently announced hostile takeover bid of Twitter, but when TED founder Chris Anderson asked whether he had “funding secured” for the Twitter deal, Musk took that as an opportunity to re-litigate his four-year battle with the SEC.
It is unclear what the Department of Justice wants with him, but one thing is very clear. The Biden-Harris regime desperately wants to take him down before he does something that hurts them such as buying Twitter and opening the door to free speech on what he has described as the “digital public square.”
A free and open Twitter spells doom for the left it would seem.
I can’t wait to hear Psaki defend this...............
And 99% of the pubs are oddly silent on any number of things?
Make you kind of wonder who,in government, is truly for the people?
This is what our elite criminal government looks like, sounds like and is!.
Where are the calls for impeachment? Clearly we have a weaponized government turning its apparatus on those it doesn’t like.
Where are the Republican’s? ...proof our government is broken. It’s bought and paid for, no longer representing us.
Elon Musk is the first man in human history that can sanely say “I’m building a ship, and heading to Mars”
Elon Musk is also the proud owner of a space-based network that can take over the entire functionality of the current iteration of the internet.
Musk can muster the cash to buy major deep state assets like Twitter.
If he gets control of Twitter then deep-state minions now working at Twitter will cause havoc with sabotage and current providers of infrastructure like Alphabet will deny services to a reborn, uncensored Twitter.
Andy Torba over at GAB has created his own infrastructure and has extended a hand of welcome for Musk to come and utilize/improve the same... his assets would mesh very well with Starlink. The combination of assets would provide a good home for the new Twitter.
Trump is in the process of assembling his own internet infrastructure and those assets could also be brought to the fight.
Jared Kushner may have to get the boot though....
And it’s likely to become more and more repressive, I hate to say.
Good post.
Musk has the money; he should launch undercover operatives to expose these ghouls. Shadow everyone with the latest technology. There is no telling what he could uncover.
“Musk has the money; he should launch undercover operatives to expose these ghouls. Shadow everyone with the latest technology. There is no telling what he could uncover”.
That’s a good thought. But I’d bet the FBI and CIA, among others, would sabotage him.
Uh-oh. You can't shred digital.
They trotted out the bearded nudist lawn troll to tell us that despots like free speech but democracies rely on censorship. I guess (the 3rd)Reich, must have been plagiarizing from Orwell’s 1984 again.
bearded nudist lawn troll !!!...................😆
joe owes twitter big time
I suspect he also gets his fair share.
“Elon hasn’t committed any crime and is already used to government bullying and will come out perfectly unaffected. If anything this helps boost Elon’s public perception.”
It worked for Trump, why not Musk? And Gen Flynn ... and Ted Stevens .... and Richard Jewel ... and Ray Donovan ... and [fill in the name]. At least the 1st two names have a lot of money to fight back.
That was settled two years ago. You can't launch an investigation into something that has already been litigated.
Charles Gasparino is an idiot.
Thanks Red Badger.
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