This is what I was thinking. Also I would imagine Twitter has massive amounts of data. Letting him stay on staff, and asuming their internal systems leave an audit trail, him deleting things would lead elon directly to what baker deemed as most important to get rid of/most damning
He is going by the book in my view. He is waiting for them to make a move then expose them.
He wants to answer the question of why he is firing them.
This is what I was thinking. Also I would imagine Twitter has massive amounts of data. Letting him stay on staff, and asuming their internal systems leave an audit trail, him deleting things would lead elon directly to what baker deemed as most important to get rid of/most damning