Is Elon Musk Manipulating The Market?

Over the past few weeks, Elon Musk has been brought up a lot in the news lately (shocker), that he believes a recession in the US looks likely in the future.

That got me thinking, because he is in the process of trying to take over Twitter right now, and the current bid is at $54.20 per share. Right now the stock keeps going down, so I thought he has had a lot of experience in the past in this realm, maybe he is trying to get the price of Twitter lower now to get a better deal?

Is that even possible? Probably.