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Prosecutor sought Trump Twitter information in secret January search warrant

A photo of then-President Donald Trump's Twitter feed on a computer screen in Washington. [AP Photo]

Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith obtained a secret search warrant last January for information from former U.S. President Donald Trump's Twitter account, court records showed Wednesday. A judge fined the social media company $350,000 for failing to quickly comply.

Trump spent almost the entirety of his four-year term in the White House posting thousands of Twitter comments, although it was unclear exactly what information Smith was seeking with the search warrant.

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