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In
a
very
rare
‘W’
for
Elon,
he
gave
some
great
career
advice
to
young
people:
Don’t
be
a
leader
just
for
the
sake
of
being
a
leader.
And
he’s
right!
An
often
neglected
part
of
leading
is
knowing
how
to
follow.
In
what
way,
you
might
ask?
Any
competent
member
of
the
C
suite
knows
you
can’t
do
it
all
by
yourself
—
delegating
matters
to
competent
employees
capable
of
handling
them
can
make
or
break
a
company.
Considering
that
Elon
just
fired
Deputy
GC
Jim
Baker
for
“doing
his
job,”
things
aren’t
looking
too
great
over
there.
Let’s
get
into
the
details
of
the
“Greatness,”
shall
we?
According
to
the
Daily
News,
here’s
what
happened:
The
Baker
tweet
came
in
reply
to
an
accusation
from
journalist
Matt
Taibbi
saying
the
attorney
sought
to
leave
Twitter’s
new
management
out
of
vetting
info
about
the
[Hunter
Biden]
laptop
story…To
the
chagrin
of
many
conservatives,
some
reporting
about
the
laptop
was
not
allowed
to
be
shared
on
in
the
weeks
leading
up
to
the
2020
presidential
election.
Before
being
hired
as
deputy
general
counsel
at
Twitter,
Baker
was
a
FBI
lawyer
under
former
Director
James
Comey
during
the
bureau’s
probe
of
Russian
interference
during
the
2016
presidential
election.
Musk
tweeted
Tuesday
that
he
questioned
Baker
about
his
actions
and
found
“His
explanation
was…
unconvincing.
But
here’s
the
thing:
Baker
was
literally
just
doing
his
job!
The
legal
department
is
there
to
shield
the
company
from
risks
like,
as
a
random
example,
knowingly
posting
hacked
dick
pics.
Despite
this
amounting
to
an
in-house
lawyer
doing
in-house
lawyer
things,
the
conspiracy
theories
started
flying.
Putting
aside
again
whether
or
not
dick
pics
are
“important
to
the
public
dialogue,”
people
have
been
using
the
bird
app
to
point
out
that
Elon
has
a
lot
of
egg
on
his
face
even
if
these
conspiracies
were
real.
Yes!
Elon
suggests
that
Baker’s
involvement
—
the
DEPUTY
GC
—
was
new
information
to
him:
…But
the
internet
doesn’t
forget
—
he
seemed
to
be
somewhat
aware
Jim
Baker’s
general
existence
as
early
as
April:
Musk’s
surprise
was
so
grandiose
in
fact
that
the
only
way
he
could
respond
when
Baker
explained
his
job
was
to
give
him
the
boot:
The
C
suite
skill
that
goes
hand
in
hand
with
the
delegation
mentioned
above?
Being
well
informed.
Considering
that
Elon
was
willing
to
raise
a
kerfuffle
over
the
number
of
fake
Twitter
users,
you’d
think
he’d
also
have
the
mind
to
check
on
who
filled
ANY
of
the
important
roles
at
the
company
he
planned
spending
billions
of
dollars
purchasing?
Right?
That
seems
like
the
common
sense
thing
to
do
here.
Then
again,
I
also
place
importance
on
knowing
the
general
layout
and
mechanics
of
things
I
plan
on
dedicating
a
significant
portion
of
my
life
to.
Elon
does
not
do
this.
I
know
this
based
on
his
public
unveiling
of
his
car’s
safety
capabilities
and
his
Elden
Ring
build.
Really?
Two
medium
shields?!
This
decision
is
likely
to
bite
Musk
in
the
ass
if
any
legal
Twitter
fallout
comes
home
to
roost.
Corporate
compliance
was
not
my
forte
in
law
school,
but
it
seems
like
booting
internal
legal
for
trying
to
make
sure
that
dumb,
potentially
actionable
things
don’t
happen
could
make
it
a
little
harder
to
claim
in
court
that
the
company
acted
responsibly.
I’d
imagine
Elon’s
“hardcore
lawyers”
would
have
great
difficulty
proving
that
King
Twit
acted
in
good
faith
when
evidence
of
him
firing
all
his
company’s
checks
and
balances
to
“own
the
libs”
is
plastered
all
over
the
internet.
Surely
tweets
can
get
deleted,
like
how
Elon
deleted
his
own
tweets
when
he
fired
Eric
Frohnhoefer
for
answering
the
question
Musk
asked
of
him,
but
screenshots
shall
live
on.
I’m
sure
Elon
would
like
to
go
down
in
history
as
altruist
par
excellence.
But
in
my
mind,
I’ll
always
remember
him
as
the
guy
who
fired
a
FORMER
FBI
ATTORNEY
because
his
commitment
to
proving
“We
Have
The
Meats!”
to
Trump
&
Co.
would
make
the
average
Arby’s
employee
look
like
a
vegan.
Twitter
Lawyer
Jim
Baker
Fired
Over
‘Suppression
Of
Information,’
Elon
Musk
Says
[NY
Daily
News]
Chris
Williams
became
a
social
media
manager
and
assistant
editor
for
Above
the
Law
in
June
2021.
Prior
to
joining
the
staff,
he
moonlighted
as
a
minor
Memelord™
in
the
Facebook
group Law
School
Memes
for
Edgy
T14s.
He
endured
Missouri
long
enough
to
graduate
from
Washington
University
in
St.
Louis
School
of
Law.
He
is
a
former
boatbuilder
who
cannot
swim, a
published
author
on
critical
race
theory,
philosophy,
and
humor,
and
has
a
love
for
cycling
that
occasionally
annoys
his
peers.
You
can
reach
him
by
email
at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and
by
tweet
at @WritesForRent.
