MUSK WANTED TO WAIT ON CAVE DIVER ATTACK APOLOGY

Elon Musk enlisted help from senior executives at each of his companies to clean up after his personal attack against a British cave diver last year, and bristled at their initial suggestion for how to apologize, according to newly released court documents. Sam Teller, a director in the office of the CEO at Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Co. and Neuralink, sought feedback from a team of executives, lawyers and advisers inside and outside the companies on what Musk should do after baselessly calling the diver a pedophile in July 2018. The insult, lobbed after Musk’s attempt to help save Thai children trapped in a cave was rejected, sent Tesla’s stock down. In an email, Musk wrote back to Teller that an immediate apology “would simply have been dismissed as a disingenuous and cowardly attempt to restore the stock price.”