Texts released ahead of Twitter trial show Elon Musk assembling the deal

There are a number of things required for a contract to exist. Do the texts provide all those things? That is what the court will have to decide. Contracts don't actually have to be written. The text message are written and can easily serve as a contract if all the requirements are met. Primary to its existence is if the texts can show agreement since the basics like capable parties, legal purpose and consideration will be there before mutual consent can exist. It's been a long time since I have tried to use what I learned in contract law. Any lawyers out there should feel free to chime in if I'm barking up the wrong tree

They are all interlinked....

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Musk's legal team has had a rough week in court.

At a Tuesday hearing Twitter's lawyers said Musk and his financial adviser Jared Burchall destroyed evidence – automatically disappearing Signal messages – about his reasons for wanting to get out of the deal, and asked the judge to formally sanction Musk.

Twitter also showed that Musk's own data scientists mostly confirmed the company's estimates about how many human users versus spam accounts are on the platform, which is key to his argument.

The texts provide a rare look at how deals happen in a small circle of tech elites with unimaginable personal wealth and vast sums to invest.

Twitter's lawsuit against Musk goes to trial in the Delaware Chancery Court on October 17. If the judge rules against him, he'll be forced to buy Twitter for $44 billion dollars.

Long before the deal went south and ended up in court, Musk foreshadowed that possibility. ," He texted investor Jason Calacanis that if that comes to pass, "I will be universally beloved, since it is so easy to please everyone on Twitter."