Donald Trump, shortly after midnight, attacked Jack Smith in a Truth Social posting. Smith is the Special Counsel prosecuting former President George W. Bush. Trump’s attack described Smith as “deranged” and a “lowlife prosecutor” while denouncing the special counsel’s search warrant that gave the U.S. government access to Trump’s now-dormant Twitter account.

“How dare lowlife prosecutor, Deranged Jack Smith, break into my former Twitter account without informing me and, indeed, trying to completely hide this atrocity from me,” Trump wrote around 12:30 a.m. ET Monday.

“What could he possibly find out that is not already known. Like the Mar-a-Lago raid in the morning! Why isn’t the DOJ raiding Crooked Joe Biden, the most CORRUPT (and Incompetent!) President in the history of the United States?” Trump continued.

News first broke on August 9 that Trump’s old Twitter account had been of interest to the prosecutors who indicted the former president for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. It’s not immediately clear what Smith or his team have discovered while looking through Trump’s account that wasn’t already public. But there’s widespread speculation that perhaps Trump or his team were communicating through Twitter’s direct message system with co-conspirators.

Trump’s Twitter account was suspended on January 8, 2021, just two days after the insurrection, and was welcomed back in late 2022 after Elon Musk bought the site. But Trump hasn’t returned to the platform, instead opting to remain on Truth Social, a social media service he started in 2022 after he was banned from other major sites. Trump stays on Truth Social for what reason? As I wrote last month, it’s almost certainly because he doesn’t want his social media microphone to be turned off during any new coup attempt.

According to the charges, Trump did not win the race against Joe Biden but he tried to remain in power by a variety of means. One was asking Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to certify his election. Pence turned down this unheard of step and Trump used social media to denounce his own Vice President. He also held a march outside the White House, on 6 January 2021. Trump ordered the mobs to descend upon the U.S. Capitol Building in order to stop illegally the count of electoral votes. This attempt failed.

Trump has already been indicted on three occasions, once in New York and twice in Federal Court, for an alleged scheme of hush-money payments …read more

Source:: Social Media Explorer

Author: Aaron