Prosecutors have Trump's Twitter DMs and drafts

The special counsel investigating Donald Trump for his role in the January 6 storming of the Capitol building — and his mishandling of government documents, including some that are classified — has the former president’s Twitter data. When the obtaining of said data was reported last week, it caused a lot of speculation around what, exactly, federal prosecutors are looking for.Well, newly unsealed documents show exactly what prosecutors obtained via their search warrant for Trump’s Twitter data — a warrant that Elon Musk and company apparently fought hard to obstruct.First and foremost, X, the company formerly known as Twitter, had to provide the special counsel with all of the @realDonaldTrump account’s tweets, likes, retweets, and direct messages — as well as tweet and DM drafts. That’s right, the special counsel has unsent tweets and direct messages that Trump had typed out but did not post. Deleted tweets and messages were also provided to the special counsel.On top of that, X had to produce Trump’s search history on the Twitter platform from October 2020 to January 2021, when his supporters rioted at the Capitol building in an attempt to overturn the presidential election results in Trump’s favor. Twitter also had to turn over IP and location information attached to Trump during that period.According to the documents, X also had to provide the special counsel with a swath of other account information, such as Trump’s contacts, the details Trump used when signing up for Twitter, his privacy settings, and any changes made…Prosecutors have Trump's Twitter DMs and drafts