Elon wets Trump’s beak ten million times
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Another bribe in the form of a legal settlement:
Elon Musk’s X has agreed to pay about $10 million to settle a lawsuit that Donald Trump brought against the company and its former chief executive, according to people familiar with the matter.
The agreement makes X the second social-media platform to settle litigation that Trump filed when the companies deplatformed him over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Trump, along with other plaintiffs, filed the lawsuit in 2021 against the company, then called Twitter, and its chief executive at the time, Jack Dorsey. Musk reinstated Trump on the platform in November 2022.
Trump’s team considered letting the lawsuit fizzle out, according to some people familiar with the matter, citing Musk’s proximity to the president and the fact that he spent $250 million to help elect him. But they ultimately moved forward with the settlement despite Trump and Musk’s close relationship.
“Despite.”
It’s worth noting again, that this was a sub-frivolous suit Trump had zero chance of winning:
Again, Twitter WON this case (decisively) at the district court level. The 9th Circuit made it clear that Twitter would win on appeal at oral args. And now it decided to just hand over $10 million to Trump. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/12/e…
[image or embed]— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) February 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
But you don’t need legal merits when you have cronies happy to loot their companies to pay you off.