Elon Musk tweets he is buying Manchester United while joking on politics
Manchester United in a thread joking about his political allegiances. The Tesla chief executive officer and world’s richest person made the claim in a tweet thread where he stated he supported the left half of the Republican Party and the right half of the Democrats.
Musk has a track record of using Twitter to make jokes and troll the media, who follow what he tweets closely. He has also run afoul of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, most infamously for tweets in 2018 about taking Tesla private. That led to securities fraud charges, and a settlement that included appointing a “Twitter sitter” to approve Musk’s Tesla-related tweets. More recently, he has drawn scrutiny from regulators over a May 17 tweet that his $44 billion takeover bid for Twitter. “cannot move forward.” Musk backed away from the purchase last month, spurring a lawsuit from the company to make him complete the deal.
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The latest tweets could also attract regulatory attention, given Manchester United securities are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The Class-A shares have fallen 10% this year. Manchester United is valued at $4.6 billion, according to Forbes. In the most recent sale of a Premier League powerhouse, a group led by Todd Boehly agreed to buy Chelsea FC from sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich for £4.25 billion ($5.1 billion), including
