Special Counsel Jack Smith is again in the news over troubling details about his warrant served on Twitter. The warrant forced Twitter to produce account information of platform users who liked, favorited, retweeted, or interacted with Trump’s posts in the many months leading up to the events of Jan. 6, 2021. Wait… what?
We were told Smith had simply subpoenaed Trump’s Twitter account records with no notice to Trump or his lawyers. But if you clicked a button after reading a tweet from the then-sitting president of the United States, you could now be on the DOJ’s no-no list courtesy of Jack Smith. He burned your constitutionally protected privacy rights to “get Trump.” You were inconsequential collateral damage.
American Democrats have responded with glee, so let me break the news. If you responded to a Trump tweet by calling him some version of an orange farm animal, you are also on Smith’s list.
For good measure, the D.C. judge presiding over related matters fined Twitter more than $300,000 for not producing your personal account information fast enough. This smacks of Trump being “homered,” or raked over the coals in the DOJ’s…
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