for records from Twitter regarding Trump's personal account, @realDonaldTrump.
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. of a transcription of a hearing with US District Judge Beryl Howell and the counsels for both Twitter and the government, Howell excoriated Twitter's lawyer for repeatedly insisting that Trump needed to be alerted about the warrant, an action she said the company doesn't normally take when prosecutors get search warrants into users' accounts.
Howell asked Twitter's legal team if the company's demand to inform the former president of the warrant was made solely to get on good terms with Trump, which counsel denied.Later, Howell also asked Twitter's counsel if its attempt to alert Trump about the warrant was"to make Donald Trump feel like he is a particularly welcomed new renewed user of Twitter." Howell ended up fining Twitter $350,000 for taking too long to comply with the warrant.