Now that everybody's talking about #PhonyStark's phone calls with #Putin, time to remind all y'all that, as revealed in #CharacterLimit by Kate Conger & Ryan Mac, just one day before closing his acquisition of #Twitter, #Musk was $400 million short of the $44 billion he owed, and tried to shake down Twitter board into paying it out of their cache reserves. Mysteriously,¹ he found the money overnight.

¹ When exactly #8vc, a noname firm employing two sons of Putin's oligarchs, join the deal?