GOP Rep Claims if a ‘Benevolent Billionaire’ Buys Twitter It ‘Can’t Be Worse Than What’s Happening’

After Tesla CEO Elon Musk made an offer to buy 🐦Twitter, a House Republican is suggesting that the platform could not get “worse” than it is.

During an appearance on Fox News on Thursday, Rep. Ken. Buck (R-Colo.) was asked to respond to Musk’s offer to buy 🐦Twitter.

“I think it’s a great move. I think that it will improve free speech,” Buck began.

He continued, “It can’t be worse than what’s happening at 🐦Twitter right now, so I think having a benevolent billionaire enter the fray is going to help. The real challenge, though, is to make sure we have competition across the board — Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, as well as 🐦Twitter — so I hope that this is the beginning of something positive.”

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On Thursday morning, Musk revealed that he made an offer to buy 🐦Twitter.

In a letter to the chairman of the board of 🐦Twitter, he wrote, “I invested in 🐦Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy.”

“However, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. 🐦Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company,” he went on.

The Tesla CEO shared:

“As a result, I am offering to buy 100% of 🐦Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, a 54% premium over the day before I began investing in 🐦Twitter and a 38% premium over the day before my investment was publicly announced. My offer is my best and final offer and if it is not accepted, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder.”

Musk added, “🐦Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it.”

In a statement, 🐦Twitter said it would “carefully review the proposal to determine the course of action that it believes is in the best interest of the Company and all 🐦Twitter stockholders.”

When asked about Musk’s claim that 🐦Twitter “will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form,” Buck said, “I think he’s absolutely right.”

“I think that 🐦Twitter and Facebook and others are irreparably broken. And I think the real key here is someone like 👤Elon Musk coming in and creating this free speech platform,” he explained.

Buck argued, “If an individual or a company controls the flow of information in a democracy, they control the outcome of an election — or at least they influence the outcome of an election.”

“So we need to make sure we have a number of Twitters or at least the right 🐦Twitter with an open and transparent platform,” he added.