2026年9月21日 下午5:17 美国东部时间 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
53名前联邦检察官和特工周一向法院表示，特朗普总统的媒体公司通过向华尔街投资者出售其Truth Social帖子的更快访问权，可能正在犯下联邦罪行。
在一份法庭文件中，这些前执法官员将矛头对准了特朗普媒体科技集团（Trump Media & Technology Group）。该集团近期推出了Truth API数据服务，向华尔街订阅者收取10万美元，以获取“最高级别Truth Social账号帖子的实时访问权”。
Truth API数据服务目前是《拦截报》和新闻自由基金会在纽约南区联邦法院提起的诉讼的核心争议点。原告方寻求获得初步禁令，以阻止该服务向订阅者提前传递特朗普总统的帖子，理由是这项新服务违反了宪法。
这起针对特朗普先生、其助手娜塔莉·哈普和丹·斯卡维诺以及白宫的诉讼称，出售Truth Social帖子的提前访问权“极其腐败”，并违反了第一和第五修正案。
这些前联邦检察官周一就这起案件提交了一份拟作为法庭之友的意见书，支持这些媒体团体的诉求，称这种出售提前访问市场敏感信息的商业模式可能违反了多项刑事法律，包括禁止内幕交易的法律。
“Truth Social的这一计划显然存在腐败风险，违背了宪法、道德准则和联邦法律所体现的强有力的反腐败利益，”这些前联邦检察官和特工在法庭意见书中写道。
他们进一步表示：“这涉及到联邦公共腐败相关法律，这些法律规定了刑事处罚，包括《证券交易法》；联邦法律中关于非法馈赠、利益冲突和联邦公职人员外部报酬的禁令；以及《贸易机密法》。”
“由于该计划与合法行为相去甚远，甚至可能构成犯罪，因此它无法服务于任何合法的政府利益，”这些前检察官说道。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已联系白宫和在此案中为政府辩护的司法部置评。
该意见书指出，这一计划不仅可能让行政部门官员承担刑事责任，还可能让任何付费购买Truth Social帖子提前访问权的人承担责任。
作为示例，意见书援引了一个假设案例：特朗普总统决定在上午11点宣布对某个出口计算机芯片的国家加征关税。付费订阅者在上午9点就能获悉这一消息，其中一名订阅者随即抛售了计算机芯片股票。当上午10点消息公开时，计算机芯片股价暴跌。
“因此，总统和付费订阅者将违反《证券交易法》，可能承担刑事责任，就如同总统秘密通过电子邮件或短信向订阅者传递市场敏感信息，而付费订阅者据此进行交易一样，”这些前检察官和特工写道。
这份意见书的签署者包括曾在公共诚信部门任职的前联邦检察官瑞安·克罗斯韦尔，他去年因司法部高级官员提议撤销对前纽约市市长埃里克·亚当斯的起诉而辞职抗议。
其他签署者包括前检察官、前监察长迈克尔·布罗米奇，以及曾在特朗普首届政府期间担任白宫法律顾问的前检察官泰·科布。
这份意见书是由辛格尔顿·施赖伯律师事务所和竞选法律中心联合组织的。
针对初步禁令申请的听证会定于10月7日在曼哈顿联邦法院举行。
Ex-federal prosecutors say Trump media company’s scheme to sell early access to Truth Social posts is likely criminal
September 21, 2026 5:17 PM EDT / CBS News
A group of 53 former federal prosecutors and agents told a court Monday that President Trump’s media company is likely committing federal crimes by selling Wall Street investors faster access to his Truth Social posts.
In a court filing, the former law enforcement officials took aim at Trump Media & Technology Group, which recently launched its Truth API data feed, which charges Wall Street subscribers $100,000 for “real-time access to posts from the highest-ranking Truth Social accounts.”
The Truth API data feed is now at the heart of a lawsuit in federal court in the Southern District of New York brought by the Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation. The plaintiffs are seeking a preliminary injunction to block the transmission of early access to President Trump’s posts on the grounds that the new service is unconstitutional.
The lawsuit, which was filed against Mr. Trump, his aides Natalie Harp and Dan Scavino and the White House, alleges that selling early access to Truth Social posts is “profoundly corrupt” and runs afoul of the First and Fifth Amendments.
The former federal prosecutors filed a proposed amicus brief in the case on Monday in support of the media groups’ request, saying the business model of selling early access to market-moving information likely violates a raft of criminal laws, including laws that prohibit insider trading.
“The Truth Social scheme poses an obvious risk of corruption, defying the compelling anti-corruption interests embodied in the Constitution, ethics codes, and federal laws,” the former federal prosecutors and agents wrote in the court brief.
They went on to say: “It implicates federal public corruption laws imposing criminal penalties, including the Securities Exchange Act; the federal prohibitions on illegal gratuities, conflicts of interest, and outside compensation for federal employment; and the Trade Secrets Act.”
“Because the scheme is so far from legitimate that it is possibly criminal, it cannot serve any legitimate government interest,” the former prosecutors said.
CBS News has reached out for comment to the White House and to the Justice Department, which is defending the government in the case.
The brief noted that the scheme could create criminal liability not only for executive branch officials, but also for anyone who is paying the fee for the early access to Truth Social posts, as well.
As an example, the brief cited a hypothetical case in which President Trump decides to announce at 11 a.m. that he is imposing tariffs on a country that exports computer chips. The paid subscribers gain access to the news at 9 a.m. and one subscriber sells computer chip stocks. When the news becomes public at 10 a.m., computer chip stocks plummet.
“The President and the paid subscriber would have therefore violated the Securities Exchange Act and could be criminally liable, just as they would be if the President had secretly emailed or texted the subscriber market-moving information, and the paid subscriber traded on that information,” the former prosecutors and agents wrote.
The brief was signed by former officials including Ryan Crosswell, a former federal prosecutor in the Public Integrity Section who resigned last year in protest after senior Justice Department officials moved to dismiss an indictment against former New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
Others who signed it include Michael Bromwich, a former prosecutor and former inspector general, and Ty Cobb, a former prosecutor who previously served as counsel in the White House during Mr. Trump’s first administration.
The brief was organized jointly by the law firm Singleton Schreiber and the Campaign Legal Center.
A hearing on the request for the preliminary injunction is slated for Oct. 7 at the federal courthouse in Manhattan.
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