Elon Musk took to his social media network to attack the judge in the trial he lost last week when a jury found the billionaire defrauded Twitter Inc. shareholders before acquiring the platform in 2022.
“Probability of me getting a fair trial if this is how the judge dresses is 0.0%,” Musk posted on what’s now known as X to his millions of followers. He was reposting a comment from another X account about Senior US District Judge Charles Breyer that included a smiling photo of the 84-year-old judge wearing his trademark red bowtie.
Musk’s lawyer complained in a letter to Breyer Thursday that the jury mocked the billionaire by slipping a “bizarre and highly questionable” joke into the verdict form for the civil trial. The jury highlighted the number $4.20 when computing how much Twitter stock’s price was depressed by Musk’s 2022 tweets at the heart of the case. The number 420 is cultural slang for pot smoking.
A spokesperson for the court where Breyer sits said judges do not comment on individual cases. Breyer, the younger brother of retired US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, was appointed to the court in 1997 by then-President Bill Clinton.
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