Newly released court documents show special counsel Jack Smith served Twitter (now X) with a warrant to gain access to Donald Trump’s Twitter account.
From The Daily Caller:
Twitter delayed compliance and did not fully produce the information requested on the “@realDonaldTrump” account until three days after the court’s deadline, leading a federal judge to hold Twitter in contempt and issue a $350,000 sanction, according to a document revealed Wednesday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the lower court’s decision in July.
The district court initially issued a nondisclosure order barring Twitter from notifying anyone about the warrant, which Twitter contested as a violation of the First Amendment and the Stored Communications Act.
Biden appointee Judge Florence Pan wrote that the district court acted “within the bounds of its discretion” when it declined to hold enforcement of the warrant until after the First Amendment claim was litigated and “followed the appropriate procedures” before finding Twitter in contempt of court. Pan also rejected Twitter’s First Amendment claims.
“Importantly, Twitter remained free to raise general concerns about warrants or nondisclosure orders, and to speak publicly about the January 6 investigation,” Pan wrote, later noting that “the whole point of the nondisclosure order was to avoid tipping off the former President about the warrant’s existence.”
Trump reacted to the news on TRUTH Social:
“Just found out that Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ secretly attacked my Twitter account, making it a point not to let me know about this major “hit” on my civil rights,” Trump posted on Truth Social Wednesday after the court documents were unsealed. “My Political Opponent is going CRAZY trying to infringe on my Campaign for President. Nothing like this has ever happened before. Does the First Amendment still exist? Did Deranged Jack Smith tell the Unselects to DESTROY & DELETE all evidence? These are DARK DAYS IN AMERICA!”
Jack Smith Is checking Trump’s DMs https://t.co/kAvoV9YuAS
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 9, 2023
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