Elon Musk on Tuesday offered to push through with his buyout of Twitter at the original agreed price, just weeks before the listed launch of a bitter court case over his sweats to withdraw from the deal.

The world’s richest man said in a form with the Securities and Exchange Commission that he transferred Twitter a letter covenanting to recognize the contract.The rearmost twist in the long- running saga came ahead of the high- stakes trial instigated by Twitter in an attempt to hold the Tesla chief to the deal he inked in April.

Musk’s implicit stewardship of the social media point has sparked solicitude from activists who sweat he could open the gates to more vituperative and misinformative postsEarly reports on Tuesday of the volte-face by Musk urged a swell in Twitter’s share value that touched off a suspense of trading, which proceeded after the nonsupervisory form.

We write to notify you that the Musk Parties intend to do to ending of the sale,” read a dupe of the letter to Twitter filed with the SEC.Twitter verified to AFP that it entered the letter from Musk, and said it intends to close the buyout deal at the agreed- on price of$54.20 per share.Conditions noted in Musk’s letter included that the court halt action in the action against him. He’d been slated to be questioned under pledge by Twitter attorneys latterly this week.

I suppose that Musk realized he wasn’t going to win that trial,” University of Richmond law professor Carl Tobias told AFP.Ever since he’d buyer’s guilt, the problem has been why, and why had he not done due industriousness up front.”

A periodical entrepreneur made rich through his success with Tesla electric buses , Musk began to step back from the Twitter deal soon after it was agreed.He said in July that he was canceling the purchase because he was misled by Twitter concerning the number of fake “ bot” accounts, allegations rejected by the company.

Twitter, meanwhile, has sought to prove Musk was contriving defenses to walk down because he changed his mindIn July, a Delaware judge agreed to gormandize- track a trial on Twitter’s allegations, which the company argued is impeding its fiscal performance.

Wedbush critic Dan Ives said in an dispatch that Musk’s apparent pivot showed that he honored “ this$ 44 billion deal was going to be completed one way or another.”Musk made his unasked shot to buy Twitter without asking for estimates regarding spam or fake accounts, and indeed candied his offer to the board by withdrawing a industriousness condition, the action said.

Eventually, we won’t know why Elon tagged to change course ahead of trial, though we presume that there are details of the concession or legal process that he preferred remain private — including deposit,” Baird Equity Research judges said in a note to investors.

Seen by his titleholders as an unorthodox genius and by his critics as an erratic cretin, Musk surprised numerous investors with his pursuit of Twitter.

Claiming to be a free speech advocate, he has said he favored lifting the point’s ban on Donald Trump, who was demurred off shortly after the former chairman’s sweats to capsize his election defeat led to the 2021 assault on the US Capitol.

Musk made it clear that he’d roll back Twitters ’ community norms and safety guidelines, reinstate Donald Trump along with scores of other accounts suspended for violence and abuse, and open the levees of intimation,” said Angelo Carusone, chairman of watchdog group Media Matters for America.In effect, Musk will turn Twitter into a fever swamp of dangerous conspiracy propositions, prejudiced jugglery, and operationalized importunity.”

Musk’s norm- defying conduct over Twitter come after the Tesla and SpaceX chief’s history record of statements that despise or test convention and occasionally provoke a crackdown from controllers.Only on Monday he was bogged in a Twitter wrangle with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over his ideas on ending Russia’s irruption.