SAN FRANCISCO - Elon Musk took the inspect stand Friday to defend 2018 tweets claiming he had lined up the financing to take Tesla confidential in a deal that never came close to happening.

Some investors said the tweet cost them millions.

Musk made an unorthodox entry into the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on the third day of territory, showing up in a blue Tesla that was decided to drive through the basement of the federal building.

It's novel because in other high profile cases such as the Mohammed Nuru corruption territory or Barry Bonds case, the defendants had to walk above the door like everyone else. But in this case, Musk was caused in through the basement. 

Once Musk, wearing a dark-colored suit, took the horrible he testified for about half hour. At one indicate he testified, "I care a great deal about retail investors. They are our most loyal and steadfast investors."

He also accepted by his habit of tweeting information about the affairs he owns saying, "I think it's the best way to communicate with people… The most democratic way of communicating with people."

Attorneys for the plaintiffs questioned Musk if he saw the influences his tweets could have on the stock price. He said it's not hat simple. 

Musk said once he tweeted that Tesla stock was overpriced and the remnant was higher stock prices. 

After he finished his testimony on Friday, the trial was adjourned for the weekend. 

Musk is anticipated to return to court on Monday to answer more questions.

A courtroom getting on Elon Musk on the witness stand in the territory over a 2018 tweet in which he claimed to have secured allow to take the automotive company private.

The billionaire's lawyer unsuccessfully tried to move to Texas, where Tesla is now headquartered, on the premise that believe coverage of his tumultuous takeover of Twitter had horrible the jury pool.

The trial hinges on the expect of whether a pair of tweets that Musk posted on Aug. 7, 2018, damaged Tesla shareholders during a 10-day conditions leading up to a Musk admission that the buyout he had envisioned wasn't progressing to happen.

In the first of those two 2018 tweets, Musk stated "funding secured" for a what would have been a $72 billion buyout of Tesla at a time when the electric automaker was composed grapping with production problems and was worth far less than it is now. Musk followed up a few hours later with novel tweet suggesting a deal was imminent.

After it reached apparent that the money wasn't in place to take Tesla reserved, Musk stepped down as Tesla's chairman while remaining CEO as part of the Securities and Exchange Commission settlement, without acknowledging any wrongdoing.

Those tweets also resulted in a $40 million settlement with initiates regulators.

The Associated Press' Michael Liedtke also contributed to this report.