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Why Elon Musk Fought a Federal Search Warrant to Help Trump

Why Elon Musk Fought a Federal Search Warrant to Help Trump

By Shan Wu, Daily Beast

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

Forget the purported MMA cage match between Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, the owner of the social media company formerly known as Twitter, now known as X. The real action is the fight between Musk and Special Counsel Jack Smith over former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account—which took place in secret for months.

Musk was ultimately forced to submit to the search warrant, and also had to pay hundreds of thousands in court-ordered fines.

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