{"id":2001970,"date":"2023-08-16T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T04:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-jack-smith-received-former-presidents-twitter-data-despite-platforms-pushback\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T00:01:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T04:01:46","slug":"donald-trump-indicted-jack-smith-received-former-presidents-twitter-data-despite-platforms-pushback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-jack-smith-received-former-presidents-twitter-data-despite-platforms-pushback\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Smith defies platform&#8217;s resistance, obtains Donald Trump&#8217;s Twitter data despite his indictment."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdonald-trump-indicted-jack-smith-received-former-presidents-twitter-data-despite-platforms-pushback%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2001970&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Special Counsel Seeks Data from Trump&#8217;s Twitter Account<\/h2>\n<p>According to newly unsealed transcripts from February court hearings, special counsel Jack Smith is making efforts to \u2063obtain a significant amount \u2063of data from former President Donald Trump&#8217;s Twitter account. This includes access to Trump&#8217;s direct messages, draft tweets, and\u2063 deleted messages from the platform now known as X. Smith&#8217;s investigation focuses on Trump&#8217;s alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<h3>Demands for Data<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/material-and-relevant-search-warrant-issued-for-alec-baldwins-phone-over-fatal-rust-shooting\/\" title=\"\u2018Material And Relevant\u2019: Search Warrant Issued For Alec Baldwin\u2019s Phone Over Fatal \u2018Rust\u2019 Shooting\">search warrant issued<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-jack-smith-received-former-presidents-twitter-data-despite-platforms-pushback\/\" title=\"Jack Smith defies platform's resistance, obtains Donald Trump's Twitter data despite his indictment.\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> requested<\/a> all data associated with Trump&#8217;s accounts, including information about devices\u200b used to log into his account. The warrant also sought privacy settings, history, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hearing-underway-on-potentially-unsealing-fbis-mar-a-lago-raid-records\/\" title=\"Hearing Underway on Potentially Unsealing FBI's Mar-a-Lago Raid Records\">search records<\/a> from October 2020 to January\u200d 2021. Additionally, Smith demanded all tweets created, drafted, favorited\/liked, or retweeted by\u2063 Trump, as well as\u2063 any messages sent from, received by, stored in draft\u200d form, or otherwise associated with the former president.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the \u200bfiling reveals that the platform was fined\u2064 $350,000 for refusing to comply with the data handover after\u200c the Justice Department issued a search warrant.\u200d D.C. District Court Judge Beryl Howell held the social media platform in contempt and ordered\u2063 Trump&#8217;s lawyer, \u200dM. Evan Corcoran, to submit most of the withheld \u2063legal\u200d documents to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-slammed-for-failing-to-address-detention-of-migrant-children\/\" title=\"Biden admin. slammed for failing to address detention of migrant children\">higher court<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Trump&#8217;s Legal Troubles<\/h3>\n<p>In addition to the \u2063ongoing investigation into his Twitter account, Trump was\u200d indicted in a fourth\u2063 case related \u2064to the subversion\u2064 of the \u20632020 election in Georgia. This indictment came in the same month that Smith indicted the former president on charges of attempting to steal the election and contributing to the insurrection at the U.S. \u200dCapitol.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click \u2063here<\/a> \u2064 to read more from The Washington \u200bExaminer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special counsel Jack Smith recently revealed that he aimed to acquire extensive data from ex-President Donald Trump&#8217;s Twitter account. The unsealed transcripts from February court hearings indicate that investigators were particularly interested in accessing Trump&#8217;s direct messages, draft tweets, and deleted messages on the platform, currently referred to as X. This was part of Smith&#8217;s ongoing investigation into Trump&#8217;s activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2001971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2001970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}