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
    56·
    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@kbin.social
      21·
      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
        5·
        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?

        • athos77@kbin.social
          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.

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