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Donald Trump’s controversial Twitter account @realDonaldTrump is going to be part of the investigation against him. The special counsel investigating Trump obtained a search order to search his Twitter for evidence about the search of the Capitol Riots, newly unsealed court filings reveal.
Twitter was initially prohibited from informing Trump that a search warrant had been acquired for his account because the investigation was so top-secret, and the firm was fined $350,000 because it took so long to produce the material requested by the prosecutors, per CNN. The “data and records related” to Trump’s account were the subject of the search warrant special counsel Jack Smith acquired; and finally, the platform was permitted to disclose some information about the search warrant to the former president.
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The warrant was requested in January 2023 by the special counsel’s office, which is now working on the criminal case against Trump in DC District Court relating to his attempts to rig the 2020 presidential election. According to the filing, which is now available to the public in the US Circuit Court of Appeals, Twitter eventually delivered the documents.
The issue of whether Trump should be informed about the search warrant was contested for months by Twitter and the office of special counsel Jack Smith.
On Wednesday, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals released a decision affirming the district court’s handling of the case, bringing the controversy to light.
