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Elon Musk is going on the offensive with a ‘hardcore’ legal department
American Thinker.com ^ | May 22, 2022 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 05/22/2022 2:38:26 AM PDT by Kaslin

Elon Musk is proving to be an exceptionally interesting person. He’s been a Democrat throughout his years in America and still believes in anthropogenic climate change. He’s an extraordinary innovator who thinks “bigger” than almost anybody in the world. And like Donald Trump, who probably would have continued as a moderate if the left hadn’t gone “scorched earth” on him, Musk is responding to leftist attacks against him since he announced his plan to buy Twitter not by meekly retreating but by announcing that he intends to fight them all the way.

Last week, within a day of Musk tweeting that he intends to vote Republican in the next election, Business Insider published an article in which a woman’s friend claims that the woman told her that Elon Musk propositioned the woman, grabbed her butt, and exposed himself to her. The “proof” is that Musk paid the woman $250,000 to go away.

Some proof. To someone as wealthy as Musk, $250,000 is chump change and well worth the price to get rid of a nuisance lawsuit that would require him to appear for a deposition and respond to other pre-trial discovery, and then go to court, creating the risk of having a judge or jury decide to punish him for being rich and famous.

Musk knew this was coming, for he’d tweeted out, “Political attacks on me will escalate dramatically in the coming months.” He also castigated the entire Democrat party:

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1 posted on 05/22/2022 2:38:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

As he should. Fight fire with fire, and while doing so, apply a scorched-earth strategy.

Stated on the forums in a like thread the other day, the Left is fudging with the wrong person.


2 posted on 05/22/2022 2:41:58 AM PDT by cranked
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To: cranked

I’m pretty certain that Musk will elongate these proceedings!

all joking aside...
The man could BUY an entire lawfirm and go to war with it. It will be interesting to see if he can take the full fire of the US Government. Because that’s what’s incoming.


3 posted on 05/22/2022 2:46:21 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: Kaslin

I went the longest time without going to the Drudge Report, basically because he was trashing Trump so much. Now I’ve checked on it lately, and he’s going after Musk. He’s got about 10 stories trashing Musk now. What a POS Drudge has turned out to be!


4 posted on 05/22/2022 3:01:52 AM PDT by Joann37
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To: Kaslin
Business Insider published an article in which a woman’s friend claims that the woman told her that Elon Musk propositioned the woman, grabbed her butt, and exposed himself to her. The “proof” is that Musk paid the woman $250,000 to go away.

"Stormy Daniel's friend said part II"

The man is vastly entertaining to watch in action. I've never been interested in electric cars, but the man himself is fascinating. It's almost joyful to watch a master of his art take on mindless nincompoops on his chosen field of battle.

5 posted on 05/22/2022 3:32:21 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Samurai_Jack
-- It will be interesting to see if he can take the full fire of the US Government. Because that's what's incoming. --

That's not possible. Even POTUS could not withstand the malfeasant US government. It's a numbers and power of the institutions thing. The law swings strongly in favor of the government. The courts are government institutions, strongly rigged in favor of the government.

6 posted on 05/22/2022 3:40:00 AM PDT by Cboldt
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Trump settled a lot of his suits...just to settle. The College Suit was ridiculous...but he settled.


7 posted on 05/22/2022 4:14:19 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Kaslin
Musk knew this was coming, for he’d tweeted out, “Political attacks on me will escalate dramatically in the coming months.” He also castigated the entire Democrat party

Ha....he signed off on a tweet as Elon-gated.

8 posted on 05/22/2022 4:15:22 AM PDT by SpokeshaveReturns (Spokeshave Returns)
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To: Samurai_Jack

As wealthy as Musk is, the government has unlimited resources, and an FBI/DOJ with nothing better to do. He will need a lot of public support, very loud public support.


9 posted on 05/22/2022 4:27:17 AM PDT by TimSkalaBim
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To: TimSkalaBim

The smart play in this case is to strive for a stalemate. Trying to win is fruitless in this game which is ultimately tic tac toe.

Hopefully Elon has this in mind.


10 posted on 05/22/2022 5:15:04 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: Kaslin

The left has a large stable of whores at the ready. They have their stories prepared. All they need is the signal, and their story will be faxxed to the news organizations and the payment will be made to their account within a day.

All the news media know what to do: totally accept the story and promote it as if it were true.

Actually there’s a whole spectrum of stories, ranging from rape to putting dogs on the top of cars to pulling a girl’s pigtails in third grade.


11 posted on 05/22/2022 7:21:40 AM PDT by I want the USA back (A totally corrupt media willingly lies to protect a totally corrupt administration. )
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To: Joann37

“What a POS Drudge has turned out to be.”

Personally, don’t give two sh!ts about Drudge and was never one of his fans, and he may indeed be POS, but if memory serves me correctly I thought he sold the website and it is now operated by somebody else. If so, it would be interesting to know who is in control of it now.


12 posted on 05/22/2022 9:43:37 AM PDT by Qui is (First, never apologize to the enemy, and second, never forget that Biden spews and Harris swallows. )
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To: cranked

Elon Musk and growing a full beard after buying Twitter. Getting rid of the democrats
Blnk
13 posted on 05/22/2022 7:29:18 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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