- He could have easily slowly acquired the necessary shares using shell companies not listed in his name.
- This is a common tactic and given his notoriety it is a no brainier. Later you consolidate those shares in a series of private transactions and the majority owner becomes clearly known. This happens all the time but somehow he can't figure this out?
- Now we have the DOJ actively interfering with private market operations- a huge expanse of scope and a departmental overreach.
- We also have direct evidence linking Twitter to gov agency influence operations
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No he couldn't. The Twitter IPO was 70m shares - around 9%. Musk didn't buy the shares on the open market but bought Morgan Stanley's 73m shares in a single transaction which in and of itself couldn't move the market. The announcement of him doing it is what did that.
I think we're agreeing. He could have easily accomplished his goal if he wasn't so public and obvious about it
He had to announce it because of the SEC
So why not use corporate entities such as shell companies
Probably he's a narcissist