A man with no working truck convinced Wall Street he had built the next Tesla. His company hit $30 BILLION. All he did was push it down a hill with no engine.
> Trevor Milton founded Nikola in 2014, named after the same inventor as Tesla.
> The goal was to build hydrogen powered trucks that would make diesel obsolete. He had no trucks.
> In 2018 he released a promotional video called Nikola One In Motion. It showed a sleek semi truck accelerating smoothly down an open highway.
Investors went wild.
> What nobody knew was that the truck had no engine, no fuel cell, and no propulsion system of any kind.
> Milton's team towed it to the top of a hill, tilted the camera to hide the slope, and let it roll.
> He spent the next four years doing the same thing with words. On podcasts, television and social media.
> Investors were told Nikola could produce its own hydrogen. It could not. They were told the trucks were ready for production. They were not. They were told orders were flooding in. They weren't.
> In June 2020 Nikola went public. Within days the company was worth $30 BILLION, more than Ford.
> Milton's personal stake hit $7.3 BILLION overnight.
> A $32.5 MILLION ranch in Utah followed. A record for the state at the time.
> In September 2020 Hindenburg Research published a report calling Nikola "an intricate fraud" built on "an ocean of lies." Milton resigned within ten days.
> A federal jury convicted him of securities fraud and wire fraud in 2022. Sentenced to four years in prison the following year.
> He never went. He was free on $100 MILLION bail pending appeal.
> He and his wife donated $3.2 MILLION to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.
> In March 2025 Trump gave him a full pardon. The pardon erased $168 MILLION in restitution to defrauded shareholders.
> Nikola filed for bankruptcy the following month, leaving thousands of investors with nothing.
The company never had a product. The only thing that was real was the $30 BILLION valuation, the $7 BILLION that landed in his pocket and the pardon that made sure none of it had to be returned.
It is deeply heartbreaking to witness a growing trend where we, as Indians, seem to desperately manifest our own country's failure. 💔
..A thread you can't ignore....
Because we are trying new things, there will be more glitches, more growing pains, and more hurdles. But we need to remember that cheering for these initiatives to fail isn't just a critique of the government—it's a sabotage of our own progress.
🧵THREAD: A dangerous narrative is spreading online (claiming it happened "on our watch" or in our "oceanic backyard") blaming the Indian Navy for "allowing" the US to sink the Iranian warship IRIS Dena. This is geographically ignorant and legally illiterate stance. Let’s look at the facts.👇
@RailwaySeva train 10104 no fresh lenin being provided in B4 coach
This helpline number needs help. Its showpiece, doesn't work tried a dozen times
Coach attendant missing
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