A newly released tranche of court documents shows the special counsel sought information on the former president’s Twitter account.
Heavily redacted documents related to special counsel Jack Smith’s search warrant for information related to former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account showed that federal prosecutors wanted his search history, blocked users, mutes, and drafts of tweets, while also seeking information on users that interacted with the former president.
More than half of the pages related to the search warrant, released this week, were totally redacted. It means that the page appears as a black rectangle with no text.
The search warrant originally was sent to Twitter (now renamed X) before a court asked the social media firm to hand over information relating to the former president’s account, including IP addresses that were “used to create, login, and use the account.” It also was asked to hand over “advertising information, including advertising IDs, ad activity, and ad topic preferences,” the document stated.
“All information from the ‘Connect’ or ‘Notifications’ tab for the account, including all lists of Twitter users who have favorited or retweeted tweets…
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