Twitter, owned by Musk, fought for months for the right to tell Trump about Special Counsel Jack Smith’s search warrant for his account.

Twitter, owned by Musk, fought for months for the right to tell Trump about Special Counsel Jack Smith’s search warrant for his account.

  • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
    66•1 year ago

    The main reason is destroying evidence. This is a guy that would literally eat memos and flush paperwork down the toilet while in the white house.

    • athos77
      24•1 year ago

      You forgot that they (Trump’s people, maybe Trump himself) repeatedly burnt government documents in the White House fireplaces.

      • @chaos@lemmy.world
        6•1 year ago

        White House fireplaces

        One of my favorite West Wing episodes

        Mr. President, you know how you told me not to wake you unless the building is on fire?

      • @some_guy
        0•1 year ago

        That’s one I haven’t heard before. It’s also something I’d believe.

        • athos77
          2•1 year ago

          [White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told White House staffers to keep some Oval Office meetings “close hold” during the transition period, potentially leaving meetings off the books […]. [Mark Meadows’ aide Cassidy] Hutchinson also testified that there “were certain things that had potentially been left off” the Oval Office diary. […] Additionally, she told the committee that she saw Meadows burn documents in his office fireplace around a dozen times – about once or twice a week – between December 2020 and mid-January 2021.

          Source

    • @PeleSpirit@lemmy.world
      19•1 year ago

      Oh for sure, but if the judge thinks it’s a possibility he could flee, that’s interesting to me. I hope Smith gets that January court date and we’ll know soon enough if he evades his secret service, lol.

      • @RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world
        17•1 year ago

        I and at least literally ‘ones’ of others figured he’d be off to Russia or more likely Saudi Arabia as soon as he left office because he was scared shitless of being thrown in jail.

        Now, naturally I’m a bit pissed he hasn’t been held, at least on the Jan 6th charges, if not the damn espionage act indictment. “Two-tiered” justice, indeed.

      • @Hubi@feddit.de
        14•1 year ago

        I had always hoped that Trump would try to escape to Russia. It would’ve been the icing on the shit cake.