According to Kristy Greenberg, the former deputy chief of the Southern District of New York’s criminal division, Special Counsel Jack Smith sought a warrant for Trump’s entire Twitter account. The company, now known as “X,” was fined for initially refusing to comply with the DOJ.

It’s anybody’s guess what Smith intended to find with a blanket warrant for the account, although Greenberg had her own ideas. Appearing on MSNBC, Greenberg floated the idea that DOJ wanted to directly connect Trump himself to a number of tweets sent in the lead-up to the January 6 riots at the Capitol. These were tweets that were referred to in the indictment for Trump’s involvement in the Jan 6 uprising.

Trump has pleaded not guilty to all four charges in the Jan 6 indictment.

One such tweet, which has since been deleted, was retweeted by innumerable fans in excitement, and even by his political opponents in disgust.

“Be there, will be wild” exhorted the President, drawing who knows how many rioters to the scene trying to impress their beloved leader by showing just exactly how “wild” they could be.

Even as the violence was already underway, with rioters calling for Mike Pence to be hanged, Trump seemed to confirm his attempts to get Pence to overturn the election when he tweeted that the Vice President “didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done.”

Greenberg went on:

When I was a prosecutor, I did many Twitter search warrants. And among the things I would look for was to be able to show that the person who was using the account who was sending the tweets from that account was actually the person that I was looking to charge.

So here, Donald Trump could potentially say, ‘Well, I didn’t send that tweet. It was some other aide, a social media manager.’ So they [the prosecutors] want to be able to say ‘The defendant tweeted the following.’ And the fact that they’re so definitive about that in the indictment, they don’t say this is a tweet from the account. They say that ‘defendant tweeted’ it, it means they know.

Twitter stores GPS and location information, which prosecutors could match up where the tweets were sent from and where the President was at that moment, which is also known.

Unfortunately for Donald Trump, he doesn’t really think things through before he says or does them. That’s almost always what trips him up, and it looks like it will be this time, too.

"Trump's refusal to give up Twitter for the sake of national security…may be coming back to haunt him."@alexwagner and fmr. SDNY Criminal Div. Deputy Chief Kristy Greenberg discuss why the DOJ executed a search warrant on Trump's Twitter account. https://t.co/PZGwkTRQEe pic.twitter.com/TM3CmU7O4G

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 10, 2023