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Don King Being Considered As CEO of Twitter
After the Elon Musk poll, change is coming
“Opportunity is the greatest charity.” — Don King
When I contacted Twitter’s press office at first and asked if the rumors were true that the former legendary boxing promoter, Don King might be named CEO of Twitter any day now, no one there would confirm it for me. Yet, when I asked numerous pimps, ex-convicts, and Wall Street bankers and hedge fund managers, if it was true, most of them said it was true.
“Yes,” Leroy “The Lifter” Shabazz said from Rikers Prison. “Don might get the gig,” he added.
“And how do you know?”
“Don told me. Don and I used to break legs back in Cleveland for all the gangsters. We also used to mug old ladies in the park when they got their social security checks. We go way back. He would not lie. He said Musk came to see him. It’s gonna happen.”
“Bullshit,” I said.
“Okay, wait and see. Don and I talk every Friday night. We do a ZOOM call. Don said he was shocked but he’s bored. He needs something to do.”
Angelo Geitner, a former cryptocurrency investor in New York, also said King told him it was true. I called Geitner in…
