UPDATE 12:59 p.m. ET: Okay, readers, this is a rare time when we have to completely refocus a story as new information came in. CNN reports that one of the key points of the search warrant applied for by the Special Counsel’s office for Twitter was that the prosecutors “found reason to believe that the former President would ‘flee from prosecution,'” although it later said it “errantly included flight from prosecution as a predicate’ in its application,” noted in a footnote. Prosecutors also “found that there were ‘reasonable grounds to believe’ that disclosing the warrant to former President Trump ‘would seriously jeopardize the ongoing investigation’ by giving him “an opportunity to destroy evidence, change patterns of behavior, [or] notify confederates.”
Original story: After Elon Musk made his $44 billion impulse buy, Twitter was fined $350,000 for failing to comply with a search warrant from Special Counsel Jack Smith to turn over information about Donald Trump’s Twitter account, Politico reports.
What additional information Smith may get from Twitter–other than the already-publicly available posts (including those he deleted) made by the indicted court-designated rapist–is unknown, but given rumors that Smith is investigating fundraising efforts based on a false claim of fighting election fraud, the posts soliciting donations would be key to a future probe.