Elon Musk’s X social-media platform, formerly known as Twitter, gave the Justice Department at least 32 of Donald Trump’s direct messages in February in response to a search warrant stemming from the government’s probe into 2020 election fraud, according to newly unsealed documents.
The contents of the messages weren’t revealed, but the communications could emerge as crucial pieces of evidence at trial as Special Counsel John"Jack” Smith, who indicted Trump on Aug 1, seeks to prove that the former president knowingly spread false claims that the election was rigged.
At the heart of the fight is Twitter’s argument that the Justice Department violated its First Amendment right to free speech by blocking the company from alerting Trump that his messages were being sought through a government warrant - a standard warning to customers that is one of Twitter’s policies.
Trump denies wrongdoing and claims all the cases are part of a Democratic"witch hunt” against him. The former president, banned from Twitter after the insurrection, was invited back by Musk and returned to the platform briefly last month to post his mug shot from his criminal case in Georgia. The newly unsealed filings also reveal new details about the government’s arguments for trying to keep the warrant secret, including concerns that disclosing the search"could precipitate violence.” The company called that worry"facially implausible.”
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