I thought the spat was an effort to direct attention away from something else. Then I realized the falling out itself was the op. An op probably authorized and initiated after much pestering from Musk. Put me in coach! The fight was to set the scene and give the impression of an opportunity to exploit an individual of great importance to US national security. A person with much technical knowledge and expertise in record breaking space flight. An area of extreme interest to intelligence agencies worldwide. All manner of overture from many different nations are sure to follow. Hopefully also they will find previously unknown CCP intelligence assets inside SpaceX as a bonus. And deal with them accordingly.Ideally with extreme prejudice.
Class act on that posting @rawsalerts. You actually refrained from cropping out the source video watermark and then slapping your own watermark on it. Maybe there is some hope for you after all.