Twitter, owned by Musk, fought for months for the right to tell Trump about Special Counsel Jack Smith’s search warrant for his account.

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    1 year ago

    I wonder why the prosecution team thought that was a “mistake”, or if it was intentionally included and then retracted? Maybe it’s standard language?

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      Not a lawyer but lawyers write draft arguments and then choose the ones they think are the best. It’s possible they put the flight risk argument in a draft but ultimately decided to remove it, but then sent it out before actually removing it.

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      I’m not a lawyer but my guess is that they didn’t want a court fight about it when their best reason was enough.

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      The “standard language” thing sounds right to me. A lot of court filings templates and attorneys just plug in the facts for their particular submission.

      Which unfortunately reminds me of Mad Libs, and now this is all getting pretty absurd in my head

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        Is that mandatory? Pretty sure it’s a service offered to former Presidents, but Trump could probably just say no.

        He hasn’t (and probably won’t) do that because he likes feeling important, and because he ain’t paying for their services.