The special counsel investigation into Donald Trump secured a search warrant of the former president’s Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, according to a newly unsealed court filing.

The search was so secret that Twitter was barred from telling Trump the search warrant had been obtained for his account, and Twitter was fined $350,000 because it delayed producing the records sought under the search warrant.

[This seems really strange. Trump’s tweets would have been public, no? He didn’t take his account private, after all — he was suspended and then canceled prior to Elon Musk’s acquisition. The secrecy was supposedly because the court was worried about Trump interfering with evidence and the investigation, but exactly *how* would that have been a risk? UPDATE: I had completely forgotten about the issue of DMs, which would explain the need for a search warrant. It still doesn’t explain the need for a *secret* search warrant. — Ed]