WASHINGTON (TND) — Twitter, the social media platform now known as X, submitted more than 30 direct messages from former President Donald Trump’s account to the Department of Justice, according to court documents that were unsealed Friday.
The 71-page document noted that 32 messages were turned over in January as part of the election subversion investigation involving the former president.
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Indeed, the materials Twitter produced to the Government included only 32 direct-message items, constituting a minuscule proportion of the total production,” prosecutors wrote in the documents.
As such, Twitter sought to delay compliance with the entirety of the Warrant based on the speculative possibility that a tiny fraction of the total production could, implausibly, contain instances when the President sought to use the direct-messaging function to carry out sensitive and confidential deliberations with trusted advisors within the Executive Branch,” prosecutors also noted.
Trump, along with former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and 17 other co-defendants, were charged with illegally scheming to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
The content of the private messages was not immediately known.
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