Twitter's lawyers suggested that Musk was looking for reasons to abandon the deal to purchase the social network. So, Twitter lawyer
"Let's slow down a littledays… It doesn't make sense to buy Twitter if we're heading towards World War III," – a Twitter lawyer read aloud, quoting Musk. "This is why Mr. Musk didn't want to buy Twitter, all this talk about bots, mDAU (monetized daily active users) and Zatko– It's all an excuse."
In one of the exchanges, the judge also made a remark about Musk's decision to forego due diligence before agreeing to the acquisition.
Musk's lawyers, pushing for a delay to the October trial, ended the more than three-hour hearing by declaring that "we are not the cause of this chaos or this delay."
"No one on Twitter is collecting todaymeeting about the poop emoji from two months ago," – he said, referring to Musk's May 16 tweet. "The reason Twitter is holding an all-hands meeting today is because a senior executive said the company was committing fraud. Is it our fault? Is this our chaos? This is their chaos."