{"id":145930,"date":"2022-09-08T17:22:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T22:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/elon-musk-wanted-to-back-out-of-twitter-deal-because-of-world-war-iii-heres-what-the-lawyers-said-in-court"},"modified":"2022-09-08T17:22:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T22:22:54","slug":"elon-musk-wanted-to-back-out-of-twitter-deal-because-of-world-war-iii-heres-what-the-lawyers-said-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/elon-musk-wanted-to-back-out-of-twitter-deal-because-of-world-war-iii-heres-what-the-lawyers-said-in-court","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk wanted to back out of Twitter deal because of World War III. Here\u2019s what the lawyers said in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-wanted-to-back-out-of-twitter-deal-because-of-world-war-iii-heres-what-the-lawyers-said-in-court2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Musk texted a Morgan Stanley banker, two weeks after he publicly announced his intent to buy Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The potential of World War III appears to be a reason why the world\u2019s richest person, Elon Musk, wanted to call off his buyout offer for Twitter, Business Insider.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Wikimedia Commons.<\/p>\n<p>The Elon Musk saga of the Twitter buyout is entering a crucial phase now, with lawyers for the Tesla CEO looking to push back the trial. Twitter\u2019s lawyers are keen to keep the trial on schedule next month and hope that the court forces Musk to sign off on his offer of $44 billion for the social media outlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musk texted a Morgan Stanley banker, two weeks after he publicly announced his intent to buy Twitter. The potential of World War III appears to be a reason why the world\u2019s richest person, Elon Musk, wanted to call off his buyout offer for Twitter, Business Insider. Wikimedia Commons. The Elon Musk saga of the Twitter [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,12,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-existential-risks","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}