Twitter Gave Special Counsel Trump’s Deleted Messages, Location Data: Documents

Special counsel Jack Smith’s team obtained an extensive amount of data from former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, including deleted messages, newly unsealed documents show.
Twitter Gave Special Counsel Trump’s Deleted Messages, Location Data: Documents
Special counsel Jack Smith delivers remarks on a recently unsealed indictment against former President Donald Trump, in Washington on June 9, 2023. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Zachary Stieber
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Twitter has handed over a voluminous set of data from former President Donald Trump’s account to special counsel Jack Smith, newly unsealed documents show.

Twitter, now known as X, gave Mr. Smith’s team data including deleted direct messages, other direct messages, draft posts, and information on the locations of users who posted to the account, lawyers for the company said in a Feb. 9 closed-door court hearing, a transcript of which was just made public.
Zachary Stieber
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