The social media giant didn’t immediately cooperate with the special counsel’s ask for @realdonaldtrump data.
new court document released Wednesday tied to Jack Smith’s investigation into Donald Trump’s interference with the 2020 election shows that the special counsel obtained a search warrant for the former president’s dormant Twitter account, and that the company didn’t immediately cooperate.
Smith sought the warrant in early January for data and records connected to the @realDonaldTrump account that Trump used throughout his 2016 presidential campaign and then during his White House term before being banned from the social network two days after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Twitter, now called X, only complied with Smith’s search warrant three days after a deadline. U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell also held the company in contempt of court, and X was ultimately charged a $350,000 fine, according to the opinion unsealed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
