Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday lashed out at "crooked Joe Biden's" Department of Justice for secretly attacking his Twitter account and "making it a point not to let me know about this major 'hit' on my civil rights."
"My Political Opponent is going CRAZY trying to infringe on my Campaign for President," Trump said in a Truth Social post hours after court documents revealed that special counsel Jack Smith subpoenaed and obtained a search warrant related to Trump's account on Twitter, which is now known as X.
A federal judge ordered Twitter to turn over the documents and also fined the company, owned by Elon Musk, $350,000 for a three-day delay in complying with a court order regarding the records.
"The district court 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,'" the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. noted in its ruling.
Trump bashed the move.
"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!"
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