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If biotech entrepreneur and 2024 Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is elected president, he plans to appoint X — formerly known as Twitter — Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk to his administration as an adviser, NBC News reports. The GOP hopeful, according to NBC, says he plans to appoint people with “a blank fresh impression,” and that he’s “enjoyed getting to know better, Elon Musk recently.” Noting that the biotech millionaire “admires the mass layoffs Musk conducted after taking over” the social media giant in 2022, the GOP hopeful has “reiterated his desire for mass changes across the …

Special Counsel Jack Smith obtained a search warrant for access to Donald Trump’s Twitter account in January, but was looking for non-public information from the account. That non-public information was Trump’s direct messages, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports, noting there were “many.” DMs are private. Smith, who has already obtained indictments against Donald Trump for the ex-president’s removal and refusal to return classified documents and for the ex-president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, appears to have accessed an important resource. “The special counsel was seeking Trump’s dire…

Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office obtained a search warrant for Donald Trump’s Twitter account, and was allowed by a court to keep it sealed amid concerns the ex-president might “flee from prosecution.” “The filing says the court ‘found probable cause to search the Twitter account for evidence of criminal offenses,’” according to the Associated Press. The search warrant was “so secret,” CNN adds, “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 warr…