I mean yeah, this is a pretty big own-goal for Musk, but someone made damn sure that purchase contract heavily favored Twitter with no wiggle room for Musk, and you can bet it wasn't Musk's lawyers. At minimum the Twitter exec team had the foresight to know Musk wasn't reliable and lock him down.
It was probably an incompetent advisor on Musk's side, or maybe he had good advice but still pressed to do the thing in a rush and screwed everything up.
Twitter peeps didn't write and sign that contract :P
"someone made damn sure that purchase contract heavily favored Twitter with no wiggle room for Musk"
That is what you might expect to happen: Twitter wasn't looking for a buyer. You had a motivated buyer and an unmotivated seller so you would expect the contract to favor the seller or there would be no sale.
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