New York Attorney General Letitia James was seen cracking up during former President Donald Trump’s testimony, according to reporters in the courtroom.

“Trump, on NYAG Letitia James: 'She doesn’t even know what 40 Wall Street is,” Klasfeld posted. “NYAG is visibly cackling at the remark for a bit, then puts her head down to compose herself.”

New York Daily News staff reporter Molly Crane-Newman, who was also in the courtroom, noted in a post on X that James’ NYC office is “right next door” to 40 Wall Street.

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    You’re assuming Elon’s goal is to actually run it as a broad social networking platform. What if his goal is to drive all the Liberals away and make it a safe space for racists and fascists? Then it makes more sense.

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      There’s a reason why conservative “free speech” platforms never work:

      • You need ads in order to pay for your company costs.
      • You need content moderation in order to get ads.
      • Content moderation drives off “free speech” users.
      • Website dies from lack of funds.

      Elon could totally float the company, but it’ll be a massive money pit overtime. They are shedding users (over 10% since the takeover) and ad revenue, and once there’s a viable alternative, there will likely be a much larger Exodus, similar to what happened to Myspace users moving to Facebook.

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      Could be. I don’t know that he has such an aim, except that he runs it on whims which inevitably lead him there anyway, because that’s who he is on the outset.

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      It would have been cheaper to just start his own, maybe under the X brand directly. Instead of killing twitter.

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      It probably is his goal, but throwing away the brand recognition of twitter does not make much sense for that either.