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Special counsel Jack Smith can gain "valuable information" from being able to directly access former President Donald Trump's Twitter account, explained former Robert Mueller investigation prosecutor Ryan Goodman on Tuesday's edition of CNN's "OutFront."

Smith's search warrant to obtain Trump's long-dormant account on Twitter, since renamed X, was first reported last week. Trump has long abandoned the platform even after his post-January 6 ban was lifted in favor of his own Truth Social website, but the account is still full of communications he had before the attack — both public and potentially private.

"I remember when [we broke the news] that there was this warrant," said anchor Erin Burnett. "Now he's got it. 500 pages of this back and forth. You mentioned DMs might be a part of it. This is a former president who didn't text and did not email. Apparently there's a voluminous amount of direct messages, some of which were deleted, others that had confidential information that were in this account."...

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced felony charges on Tuesday against 16 people who signed on as fake "electors" fraudulently asserting former President Donald Trump carried the state in 2020 — essentially accusing them of issuing forgeries to deceive the public.

These charges, which are separate from special counsel Jack Smith's criminal investigation of January 6 or Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis' investigation of election interference in that state, could be incredibly serious, argued former federal prosecutor Laura Coates on CNN's "The Situation Room" that evening.

"These 16 could wind up in jail for years," said anchor Wolf Blitzer. "How significant are these charges?"...