"And it's interesting, the tweet about Mike Pence not having the courage to reject or delay the count, that came after advisers tell Trump there has been a riot at the Capitol, the Capitol had been breached, and he sends it anyway," Greenberg said. Greenberg said that the information the DOJ was seeking could be obtained as Twitter stores location and GPS information which would provide "really precise" details of "exactly where he was at the time and on the date" that the tweets were sent. They say that 'defendant tweeted' it, it means they know," Greenberg added. It was some other aide, a social media manager.' So want to be able to say 'The defendant tweeted the following.' And the fact that they're so definitive about that in the indictment, they don't say this is a tweet from the account. "So here, Donald Trump could potentially say, 'Well, I didn't send that tweet. And among the things I would look for was to be able to show that the person who was using the account who was sending the tweets from that account was actually the person that I was looking to charge," Greenberg said. "When I was a prosecutor, I did many Twitter search warrants. Alex Wong/Getty ImagesĪs the violence at the Capitol was unfolding, Trump also posted a message claiming that former Vice President Mike Pence "didn't have the courage to do what should have been done" by preventing the 2020 election results from being certified, which Greenberg said could prove his intent to pressure Pence to overturn the election results. The DOJ may have been able to obtain information about the Capitol riot with a search warrant for Trump's Twitter account. President Donald Trump looks at his phone during a roundtable at the White House, on June 18, 2020. However, Greenberg speculated that the Department of Justice (DOJ) wanted to prove that Trump was the one who sent tweets that were referenced in the January 6 indictment detailing the four charges to which the former president has pleaded not guilty.Īmong some of the tweets cited by the federal government in the 45-page indictment against Trump was one sent in December 2020 urging his supporters to attend "wild" election protests in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021. It is unclear what information prosecutors were seeking with their search warrant on Trump's account. While appearing on MSNBC, Kristy Greenberg, former deputy chief of the Southern District of New York's criminal division, discussed how Special Counsel Jack Smith's office had sought a warrant for Trump's account on Twitter, now called X, in January 2023, and the social media company was fined for initially refusing to comply. Federal prosecutors obtained a search warrant for Donald Trump's Twitter account to prove the former president had sent potentially damning tweets during and around the January 6 attack on the U.S.
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