The special counsel investigation into Donald Trump secured a search warrant of the former president’s Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, according to a newly unsealed court filing.
If you’ve seen any footage of his nazi rally in Windham, NH, you’d notice that the fat pig was sweating like Elvis on stage in '77.
All while in air conditioning.
That heat you feel, you miserable vomitous mass, is the measured gaze of Jack Smith slowly closing the noose around your ankles to drag you to prison.
The FBI runs Twitter, what do they need a warrant for?
Jack Smith might want to check the Wayback Machine to make sure nothing’s missing…
when they ask for stuff like this, they already know what they’re looking for.
Yep. I’m guessing DMs to leaders of the 3%ers, Proud Boys, and others who tried to kill government officials
You shouldn’t guess stuff that extreme. It trivializes whatever is found, whether it’s that or less than that.
Must be going after DMs?
The search was so secret that Twitter was barred from telling Trump the search warrant had been obtained for his account, and Twitter was fined $350,000 because it delayed producing the records sought under the search warrant.
Still not a fan of secret subpoenas/warrants/whatever, but fuck that’s funny
This is different from a FISA warrant I think. It’s not that it was “secret”, in that it won’t ever be public. Just that they didn’t tell trump first, which as far as I know is pretty standard
I’m aware. I’m not a fan of them not being able to tell their users when this stuff happens.
Gotta wait til after they hand it over? Sure. But they should be legally required to inform the user after the fact.
Yes, that’s generally how electronic record searches go. I don’t get why “secret” is bolded, since any of us would be getting the exact same treatment if there was a warrant for our own accounts. This at least is equitable in that it’s equally unfair under the laws that these very same people had no problem with when they were in power.
Yeah, THAT’S what CNN should’ve said in the headline. Investigations into Trump are so ordinary now they’re barely news, but Twitter ignoring the law and the search warrant — that ought to be big news.
There are still serious news sites and government agencies using Twitter, something that’s been feeling more and more problematic to me. It would be nice if today’s news started a groundswell, or at least a conversation about that. Twitter has made itself into a forum for nutters, and now this? To anyone who’s still on Twitter, I would ask — Why?
bwahahahaha!!! That’s hilarious!!!
Are we going to see more bullshit “Twitter Files” about how the evil government dared to exercise a legal search warrant?