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Absolutely horrible? He absolutely lost his ass on the purchase and is one election away from fraud charges.

I guess congrats you bought Twitter and then spent half a billion dollars just so you could temporarily dismantle the regulators who were preventing you from committing open fraud?

Or, you know, if you did manage to permanently dismantle the regulators it means you’ve destroyed your primary source of revenue.



> is one election away from fraud charges.

Nothing in my lifetime of experience in the US so far, or in the demeanor of the "opposition" party suggests he'll face real consequences for this.


"One election away from more fraud". Not fraud charges.




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