With this talk of Elon coming on board and unbanning, the timing with prelims coming up to unleash the Orange Scare again would be mighty convenient. Trump dutifully hams it up as the heel, the 24/7 news goes into overdrive again now that the mighty enemy is back and shelling democracy with tyrannical tweets.
The truth is, Trump is so useful as a patsy and a foil, the absolute best thing would be for him to go hide and play some golf so the MSM would have to fight in new territory rather than relying on the Orange Man Bad playbook.
Like the timing of Roe v Wade debacle, it looks like another "win" with intentionally poor presentation and timing to turn it into liberal fear porn.
Twitter is going to be expanded into a next-generation social media site-- a site for everything. Think twitter, facebook, and amazon mashed together. Musk just bought a customer base.
I don't think it's the motivation, it's just a two-fer.
Paying billions of dollars to own a website, just to be the one bullied by their advertisers.