[lostdog]

No way buying Twitter to justify selling Tesla stock is the simplest solution.

If he wanted to sell some Tesla, here's a simple way:

1) Tweet something: "Batteries are overpriced! I will start or buy a battery company, but I need a warchest to do it!"

2) Sell some Tesla stock

3) Don't do the battery thing. If you really need to justify yourself, just pretend some private discussions convinced you not to do it in the end.

This has the nice benefit of not being on the hook for tens of billions of dollars while accomplishing the same goal.