It's tinfoil hat territory, but the connection could run the other way in principle: the ex-exec could have been shopping for someone to injure Twitter and cook

It's tinfoil hat territory, but the connection could run the other way in principle: the ex-exec could have been shopping for someone to injure Twitter and cooked up a plot in which Twitter was an innocent victim and Musk a double-crossed coconspirator. Why, it explains Musk's confidence that Twitter was up to something with its fake-account stats... It must be true!