Sorry - there is ZERO evidence he built it as a PR stunt - as I said, there is an e-mail trail showing that the rescue team reached out to him first. Conversations involved specifications. So, he BUILT it to rescue kids.
Delivering it in person definitely WAS for PR. So what? That is how Tesla promotes itself - youtube. The man did something extraordinary, and you want to tear him down for it because it was a PR stunt? Wtf?!?
Get real. The guy was a complete ass to Musk. Musk responded like most people would when someone accuses you sins and tells you to shove something up your ass.
A “full-out slander campaign”? Hardly. If a billionaire really wanted a full-out slander campaign, it wouldn’t look like what it did. It would be thousand times worse. We would have seen a vicious expose into Vernons lifestyle. We would have seen multiple witnesses decrying the insults made upon Musk. Musk did virtually nothing. Stop making shit up.
And frankly, it is the Musk-haters who refused to stop escalating this whole kerfuffle, let’s be honest. Framing it dishonestly from the get go, baiting the question in interviews. It is two guys sniping at each other, ffs. Nobody without an agenda should give a shit.
