"They're jerks who want us to die," he told Rolling Stone two years ago. "They're constantly trying to make up false rumors and amplify any negative rumors. It's a really big incentive to lie and attack my integrity. It's really awful."
He described short-sellers as "value destroyers" and said the practice should "definitely be illegal" in a tweet in October 2018. He promised the "short burn of the century" a few months earlier.
Very familiar tactics used overall by "shorters and distorters" regardless of the investment.