The direct messages represent a “minuscule proportion” of the total data provided by the company, prosecutors said in a newly unsealed court filing.
to special counsel Jack Smith's office, according to court filing unsealed Friday.
Prosecutors from the special counsel's office revealed the number of messages in a memo filed before a D.C. federal appeals court earlier this year, according to the filing. The social media company was forced to turn over the records after receiving a search warrant in January from Smith's office. Smith's office filed the memo after Twitter appealed a lower court’s decision that forced the company to comply with the search warrant and an accompanying order that barred Twitter from informing Trump or his lawyers about the warrant.previously revealed when the appeals court’s ruling was unsealed in AugustThe 32 direct messages turned over to prosecutors represent a “minuscule proportion” of the total data provided by Twitter, according to the newly unsealed filing.
It's unclear exactly what the direct messages that were obtained say or what other data the special counsel's office received. The indictment that charged Trump last month with using “unlawful means” to remain in power after he lost the 2020 election repeatedly referred to the former president's tweets. Prosecutors from the special counsel's office, for example, included tweets in which Trump pressured Vice President Mike Pence to reject Electoral College votes before Congress and tweets urging his supporters to come to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021.
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