What the *^$# Is Musk Up To?
The Mary Trump Podcast
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🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So it looks like shadow President Elon Musk has a new battle on his hands. |
| 0:04.5 | This time it's with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
| 0:08.5 | Take a look at this clip. |
| 0:10.0 | The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is suing ex-owner Elon Musk. |
| 0:14.5 | The lawsuit claims Musk failed to disclose in 2022 that he had a minority stake in X, |
| 0:20.0 | formerly known as Twitter, as required |
| 0:22.0 | by regulators, and that he bought shares of the platform at artificially low prices and |
| 0:27.7 | underpaid investors before becoming Twitter's owner. Musk's lawyer denies wrongdoing and claims |
| 0:33.1 | the SEC has been harassing Musk for years. Musk is now tasked by President-elect Trump |
| 0:38.4 | and finding ways to slash government waste. |
| 0:43.5 | All right, I just want to break that down a little bit. |
| 0:46.5 | So basically, the SEC is suing Musk |
| 0:51.5 | because he did not properly disclose his ownership of Twitter. |
| 0:57.4 | I refuse to call it X, for those of you who are wondering, which would have been required |
| 1:02.4 | by federal law. |
| 1:03.7 | And that's the disclosing of his ownership, not continuing to say Twitter. |
| 1:08.2 | So basically, he was allowed to buy, not allowed, he was able to buy |
| 1:13.6 | shares at the platform's artificially low prices before he closed his $44 billion deal to acquire |
| 1:21.9 | Twitter last, in October of 22. By acquiring a significant percentage of shares, and by March of 2022, |
| 1:32.0 | he owned about 5% of the company's common stock, he would have been required to declos that |
| 1:37.7 | within 10 calendar days and the filing alleges that Musk failed to do this by April 4th, 2022. |
| 1:46.4 | The suit alleges, quote, had Musk and his wealth manager disclosed his ownership as required, |
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