Elon cannot be bought? Bought by what? He's the one with the big fat wallet

He is manipulating the market to his advantage.

He's offering contracts worth billions with his own companies to fill those he nixed in various government agencies, like when he offered one using Starlink to replace a Verizon contract with the Pentagon, citing its failure. That ended when it was pointed out to him did Verizon didn't start working on what it was supposed to supply yet, and that the fault that he saw was what they had been contracted to replace.

There has got to be a conflict of interest somewhere there.