In January, federal prosecutors obtained a search warrant to obtain information from Trump's personal Twitter account. Twitter's legal team argued that it needed to inform Trump of the warrant. The judge asked if this was a result of Twitter owner Elon Musk trying to "cozy up" to Trump. News of the search warrant broke on August 9, though it was not clear at the time what data, Smith and his team were working to obtain. Twitter's team simply said it has "no interest other than litigating its constitutional rights"Howell ended up fining Twitter $350,000 for taking too long to comply with the warrant.

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