The search warrant Special Counsel Jack Smith obtained for former president Donald Trump’s Twitter account gave him access to direct messages, draft tweets and search history, according to a newly unsealed court document.
Over Twitter’s objections, U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Columbia Beryl Howell granted a warrant to Smith that provided access to a wide range of account data, including location data and tweet drafts, according to a documentunsealed Tuesday. Twitter initially sought to delay compliance and produced the information three days after the court’s deadline, leading Howell to hold the company in contempt and levy a $350,000 sanction in February, documents earlier revealed.
The warrant called for Twitter to release search history, location data, IP addresses used to log into the account, all tweets “created, drafted, favorited/liked, or retweeted” by the account, all direct messages, all information “relating to all other interactions” between Trump’s account and other users from October 2020 to January 2021, accounts Trump “followed, unfollowed, muted, unmuted, blocked, or unblocked” and all users who took the same actions against account between the dates of October 2020 and January 2021.
