The Prosecutor's Office investigating Trump searched his Twitter account in search of evidence
The Special Prosecutor's Office investigating former US President Donald Trump obtained a search warrant for the Republican's Twitter account last January with the aim of finding evidence about his efforts to reverse the 2020 elections.
This is confirmed by some judicial documents that have been published this Wednesday. According to them, the registration of the account was not notified to Trump himself, since the Court of the District of Columbia found “reasonable grounds to believe” that the former president would “jeopardize the ongoing investigation” by giving him “an opportunity to destroy evidence”.
Precisely Twitter (now called 'X') suspended Trump's account for “incitement to violence” after the assault on the Capitol in 2021, but Elon Musk rehabilitated it last year after acquiring the social network, although the former president has not returned to post nothing.
According to the documentation revealed today, in January the District Court of Columbia granted the special prosecutor's office, led by Jack Smith, an order to register the account and likewise prohibited Twitter from “revealing the existence” of said order. .
This veto generated a dispute between Twitter and the prosecution, who finally the Court of Appeals agreed with, prohibiting Trump from being notified about the intervention of his account. In addition, the Court of Appeals upheld a fine of $350,000 imposed on the social network by the Court of the District of Columbia for having delayed in allowing the registration of the account.
Trump pleads not guilty
Trump appeared before that court last week, where he pleaded not guilty to the four crimes charged against him, with sentences of up to 20 years in prison for having tried to reverse the 2020 elections in which he lost against Joe Biden and having instigated the assault on the Capitol
The prosecution accuses him of having deliberately lied when denouncing false electoral fraud and of having devised a plan to reverse the results of the elections that led to the assault on the Capitol in 2021, when a mob of Trump supporters attacked Congress to prevent ratification. of Biden's victory.
This is the third criminal charge against the former president, also charged in New York for bribing porn actress Stormy Daniels and in Miami for illegally taking classified documents when leaving power, a case also investigated by prosecutor Jack Smith.
The legal proceedings against him, however, have not diminished the popularity of Trump, a great favorite in the Republican primaries ahead of the 2024 elections, in which he aspires to fight Biden again.