Patrick T. Fallon | Reuters Elon Musk wants time to prepare for a trial over his controversial withdrawal from a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion, his lawyers said in a filing in a Delaware court on Friday. Musk’s team says the trial will have to wait until next year, after Twitter had requested expedited treatment and a hearing as early as September. In their filing, an opposition to an earlier motion filed by Twitter, Musk’s lawyers claimed the company made a “sudden request for warp speed after two months of drifting and obfuscation” and said it was the “latest tactic of Twitter to cover up the truth. about spam accounts.” An expedited hearing, Musk’s side says, would be an unfair tactic and a way to cover up the extent of the platform’s problems with fake accounts. Earlier this week, Twitter sued Musk, alleging that the Tesla CEO made a bad faith effort to back out of the deal. Musk’s lawyers argued, “it would be an ‘extraordinary feat’ to try a complex case that has collapsed in even five to six months” and say that “holding a trial in February 2023 would balance the interests of the parties and the Court ». Twitter was asking for a hearing within about 60 days. Twitter declined to comment on the matter. Musk did not respond to a request for comment. WATCH: Twitter blames Musk for driving stock price down
