U.S. Court of Appeals Claims Trump Is Flight Risk

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Colombia claimed President Trump was a flight risk and a nondisclosure order needed to be issued to X(Twitter) so Trump would not flee from being prosecuted by the DOJ.

The opinion that was argued in the court stated that the Stored Communications Act allows the government “to seek a nondisclosure order, which directs service providers ‘not to notify any other person of a warrant or order’s existence ‘for such a period as the court deems appropriate.'”

The court noted that the lower court decision which X was appealing “also found reason to believe that the former President would ‘flee from prosecution.’”

U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell also ruled X is responsible for paying a $350,000 fine for not handing over data to Trump’s Twitter account.

Federal Court Declares Trump A Flight Risk In Secret Subpoena Decision https://t.co/1M1RvCfd05

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 10, 2023

Judge Howell actually agreed that the former President was a flight risk. Trump has 24/7 security. Yet Howell agreed that he might shake his sizable security detail, evade them, and go on the lam. He is one of the most recognized figures in the world, so he would have to to to…

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) August 10, 2023

Per The Daily Caller:

U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell found former President Donald Trump to be a flight risk when she approved a search warrant for Trump’s Twitter account, according to a newly released court document.

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An appeals court opinion, unsealed Wednesday, revealed Special Counsel Jack Smith requested and was granted a search warrant for Trump’s Twitter account — along with a nondisclosure order prohibiting the company from speaking about the warrant. A footnote in the appeals court decision, which upheld the lower court’s decision to impose a $350,000 fine on Twitter for delaying production of the information, notes Howell “found reason to believe that the President would ‘flee from prosecution.’”

The government later backtracked that argument, according to the footnote, stating that it “errantly included flight from prosecution as a predicate” in its application for a warrant. The district court also “did not rely on risk of flight in its ultimate analysis,” the appeals court wrote.

Insanity, we live in an age of deceit. In Biden's Orwellian 🇺🇸, lies are truths & truths are lies.
Trump is declared a flight risk per Biden's henchman sociopath Jack Smith & agreed to by Obama appointed Marxist democrat Judge Howell. This is the ongoing saga by the Marxist… https://t.co/CqIWgZBtSD

— Pat (@Pat300000) August 10, 2023

Per The Post Millennial:

In an appeals ruling published on Wednesday, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia suggested that 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump was a flight risk, and that the nondisclosure order issued to X, formerly known as Twitter, by Biden’s Department of Justice was done to avoid Trump fleeing from prosecution or destroying evidence.

The opinion, which was argued before the court in May and published on Wednesday, stated that the Stored Communications Act allowed for the government “to seek a nondisclosure order, which directs service providers ‘not to notify any other person’ of a warrant or order’s existence ‘for such a period as the court deems appropriate.'”

In a footnote, the court wrote that the lower court, whose decision X was appealing, “also found reason to believe that the former President would ‘flee from prosecution.'”

“The government later acknowledged, however, that it had ‘errantly included flight from prosecution as a predicate’ in its application,” the opinion noted, adding “the district court did not rely on risk of flight in its ultimate analysis.”

FLIGHT RISK? Can anyone explain to me how someone who spends 24/7 with a massive Secret Service detail is a flight risk? Trump isn't going anywhere despite the Democrat's best efforts to silence him. https://t.co/gzxbl7B3AC

— @amuse (@amuse) August 10, 2023