Special counsel obtained search warrant for Twitter to turn over info on Trump's account: documents
Special counsel obtained search warrant for Twitter to turn over info on Trump's account: documents
Special counsel Jack Smith’s team obtained a search warrant in January for records related to former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, and a judge levied a $350,000 fine on the company for a delay in complying.
This guy ain’t nothing to fuck wit. He’s the Wu Tang of prosecutors. Also, how fucken sweet it would be if Jack Smith also nailed that douche Elon Musk for obstruction or whatever.
46Why not share the glory?
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The Twitter part of this is hilarious. Basically Twitter was so disorganized they didn't respond to the warrant on time and ended up with a $350k fine. Twitter was arguing against the protective order that prevented them from talking about it, but they didn't contest the validity of the warrant and handed over the information. This all played out months ago, we're finding out about it now because the appeals court decision has been partially unsealed.
From Politico's article on this:
The opinion describes the Justice Department’s “difficulties” in initially making contact with Twitter — which had only recently been taken over by Musk — to serve the search warrant. Prosecutors first attempted to contact the company on Jan. 17 via its website for legal requests but found the page to be inoperative. On Jan. 19, the company finally connected with prosecutors but did not immediately comply with the warrant. On Jan. 25, when prosecutors prodded Twitter again, the company’s counsel claimed she “had not heard anything about the warrant.”
Finally, on Feb. 1, four days after the production deadline, Twitter raised a legal objection to the nondisclosure order.
“Although the company did not question the validity of the search warrant, it asserted that the nondisclosure order was facially invalid under the First Amendment,” Pan noted. “Twitter informed the government that it would not comply with the warrant until the district court assessed the legality of the nondisclosure order.”
On Feb. 2, Twitter filed a motion to vacate the nondisclosure order and Smith’s team sought a contempt order from Howell. Howell held Twitter in contempt and approved fines beginning at $50,000 a day, doubling for each day of noncompliance.
“The court adopted that suggestion, noting that Twitter was sold for over $40 billion and that its owner’s net worth was over $180 billion. Twitter did not object to the sanctions formula,” the appeals court noted.
Twitter did not fully comply until Feb. 9, resulting in the $350,000 fine.
33$50K per day, doubling every day, that will get pretty much anybody's attention, damn.
7Would have been interesting if the poop emoji auto reply had been implemented at this time.
Also it’s hilarious that they took Elon’s “richest man in the world” bragging & turned it against him.
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Are the servers at Twitter that would even hold that data still turned on or even there? I feel like Musk would have sold them on ebay already.
Also, does anyone who still works there even know how to pull that info? With all the firings, I'm legitimately surprised the entire site hasn't completely collapsed.
22I'm sure it's still in the same database with all of the other user and post information. When accounts are deleted online it's usually a soft delete. A flag is set saying the account is deleted, but the information is still there.
11I have no doubt his information is still in the database. Unless it’s in their TOS after like 4 years of account termination or deletion that all data is deleted then it’s there. Pulling data and exporting really isn’t difficult even with not many workers since well… it would have to be some sort of priority. Hell, one person could even do it if they have documentation for this and what tables to pull from just from their account key
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17Meanwhile, on Truth Social…
17It's not like the State or Country is coming down on me.
Well, actually...
28He's right it's not the state, it's state(s) plural
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Lol he’s terrified.
17Dude’s a fuckwit.
13yeah them wits is done fukt
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It's a dishonest politican and his gang of Thugs breaking the law in order to get re-elected.
Yes, that is indeed what you're being prosecuted for, good work Donny!
11Nice to see he acknowledged he didn't win the 2020 elections again (see his use of the term reelection).
9"Even when they indict me in Georgia, it will be because of Crooked Joe Biden."
6Funny to see such an obvious baldfaced lie on "Truth" Social
6Man we are fucked.
4Every accusation a confession with this malignant clown.
4My god I do not miss having to be subjected to his incoherent screeching 24/7.
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lol i wonder how much of a troll that silver spoon South African dipshit is going to be
13It all already played out.
Elon Musk’s Twitter not only didn’t have any lawyers home to accept the request, but they balked at providing the data, which was originally due on January 27, because they wanted to tell Trump about it first.
Ultimately, then Chief Judge Beryl Howell had to hold Twitter in contempt for 3 days before it turned over all the requested data on February 9. The DC Circuit just upheld Howell on all counts — the imposition of the gag, the contempt and the fine.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/08/09/beryl-howell-held-elon-musks-xitter-in-contempt/
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In before Trump's Twitter searches for hentai feet pics and piss porn are leaked.
8Except we already know Trump's fetishes: little girls and women who resemble his daughter
12I think you meant little girls AND his daughter.
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He looks just likd Coach Beard from Ted Lasso!
8Gears of Justice, baybay!!
4Half of those books he's reading are dense legal reference books if you look closely
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Adam22 looking weird
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