Musk, Twitter Exchange Accusations Over $44 Billion Deal

Last April, Elon Musk made a $44 billion offer to buy Twitter before he decided in July that he wanted to cancel the deal. On the other hand, Twitter said this does work works when one has already made a legally binding commitment.

US courts now have the mission and mandate to see Twitter’s suit and Elon Musk ’s countersuit to finally rule and decide on a heap of mutual accusations. Twitter sued Musk in July, explaining that he was still on the hook to fork over all that cash. Musk countersued and submitted explanations for why he didn’t want the social media company anymore.

Twitter has responded to those claims in a court filing in Delaware unsealed on Thursday. Twitter did not pull any punches in the 127-page filing, walking right up to the line of calling Musk an idiotic liar without actually using those words.

The legal beatdown continued from there, eviscerating Musk’s claims about the number of bots on Twitter and the number of active users on the platform, in addition to other accusations of misleading investors.

Whatever excuses Musk can come up with, he signed an agreement to buy Twitter at a given price and waived any due diligence. Twitter could have thousands of bodies buried under its headquarters in San Francisco and that still would never change the fact that Musk decided to only have substantive questions after he signed on the dotted line. He said he would buy Twitter, as it is and without refunds.