> And he could have gotten out of it by paying a $1 billion cancel fee, something like that I'm not sure why people are still repeating that. No, he couldn't,

> And he could have gotten out of it by paying a $1 billion cancel fee, something like that I'm not sure why people are still repeating that. No, he couldn't, that fee would have been due if external influence would have prevented him from completing the transaction (e.g. the government banning the sale somehow).