Tesla founder Elon Musk took to a witness stand
to defend his company’s 2016 acquisition of a
troubled company called SolarCity against a
lawsuit that claims he’s to blame for a deal that
was rife with conflicts of interest and never
delivered the profits he’d promised.
And to the surprise of no one, the famously
colorful billionaire did so in the most personally
combative terms.
“I think you are a bad human being,” Musk told
Randall Baron, a lawyer for shareholders who
was pressing Musk to acknowledge his mistakes
in helping engineer the acquisition of SolarCity,
a manufacturer of solar panels.
“I have great respect for the court,” Musk later
added, “but not for you, sir.”