Federal prosecutors warned in April that Donald Trump's public disclosure of their efforts to access his Twitter account could spark unrest as his doing so in the past had, newly unsealed court filings show.
Notifying Trump of the search warrant "could precipitate violence as occurred following the public disclosure of the search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago," the prosecutors for special counsel Jack Smith warned in the document. As Politico notes, Trump's public announcement of the FBI search of his resort club was followed by an uptick in threats against federal law enforcement and culminated in the fatal shooting of a man who attempted to infiltrate a bureau building in Cincinnati.
