Special Counsel Obtained 32 Private Messages From Trump's Twitter Account

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTNewly unsealed court papers shed additional light on a legal fight whose existence was revealed last month.Former President Donald J. Trump’s Twitter account is the subject of a search warrant by federal prosecutors.Credit…Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York TimesSept. 15, 2023, 5:39 p.m. ETThe federal prosecutors who charged former President Donald J. Trump with a criminal conspiracy over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election obtained 32 private messages from his Twitter account through a search warrant this winter as part of their investigation, court papers unsealed on Friday said.Questions have lingered about what prosecutors were looking for in Mr. Trump’s Twitter account ever since it was revealed last month that the government had served the warrant on Twitter in January. In an earlier release of documents, prosecutors disclosed that they had obtained some private messages from Mr. Trump’s account but not how many.The 32 messages, whose content has not been disclosed, were only a small fraction of the larger body of data that Twitter was forced to turn over under the terms of the warrant, the new court papers said. Much of the legal wrangling over the matter focused on the Justice Department’s demand that Twitter, purchased
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