Hi there, everyone. Happy Friday. It's 4 o'clock in New York. Next week marks the 10-month

anniversary since Attorney General Merrick Garland first appointed special counsel

Jack Smith to his post. Just 10 months. That's inkin. Right now Jack Smith is a man who speaks

very few words publicly. So we are for the time being left to comb through his public

filings to know what Jack Smith really thinks about the urgency of getting his election

interference case into court. Now we're getting a brand new glimpse inside Jack Smith's

thinking and specifically and more chillingly, Jack Smith's very real fears of violence. They

come from what we're learning about efforts to gain access to Trump's Twitter account.

Politico is reporting that newly unsealed court filings show that we back in April quote

federal prosecutors secretly argued that if Donald Trump learned of their efforts to

access his Twitter account, his public disclosure of the development could quote precipitate

violence. And this that attorneys working for special counsel Jack Smith worried that

Trump would publicly announce the search warrant of his Twitter feed just like he announced

on true social when his Mar-a-Lago estate was searched by the FBI last year. An announcement

that was followed by a surge in threats against federal law enforcement culminating in

the fatal shooting of a man who had attempted to breach the FBI building in Cincinnati.

If this showdown between special counsel Jack Smith and the social media giant Twitter

now known as X is ringing any bells for you, that's because we've reported on it here

before on how Twitter dragged its feet only to ultimately and begrudgingly hand over a

heap of data about Donald Trump's Twitter account. Jack tweets location data direct messages.

Well, now thanks to his newly unsealed filing, we know exactly how many direct messages from

Trump's account returned over. Just 32, what Jack Smith describes as a quote minuscule amount.

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