Elon Musk testified that he was being insulting, not literal, when calling a British cave diver who helped rescue a dozen boys and their soccer coach from a flooded Thailand cave a pedophile on Twitter.
The shame and mortification Unsworth said he experienced is undercut by the attention he received after the rescue, Spiro said, including honors from the Thai king and British prime minister and offers from agents and film crews.
In an email to a Buzzfeed reporter seeking comment on the threat of a lawsuit by Unsworth's lawyer, Musk wrote the journalist"should stop defending child rapists," followed by expletives.Musk maintained his composure throughout an afternoon of questioning from Unsworth’s lawyer, who called him as his first witness.
When asked about the final line of his email to the Buzzfeed reporter that said he hoped Unsworth would sue him, Musk quipped:"I guess be careful what you wish for." Unsworth's lawyers laughed off that explanation, saying Musk responded to a question on Twitter about whether he had accused Unsworth of being a pedophile with another tweet that said,"Bet ya a signed dollar it’s true.""If I really thought that it was true, I would have said more than a dollar," he testified.
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