This is the best summary I could come up with:
US special counsel Jack Smith acquired direct messages — potentially including deleted messages — from former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, unsealed court transcripts have revealed.
Ari Holtzblatt, another attorney for Twitter, hinted that the data the company’s engineers pulled may include deleted direct messages, too.
The company pulled three separate versions of Trump’s Twitter data, and not all of it was available to review at the time of the hearing in February.
He said later that Twitter engineers “were able to pull [data that] included deleted direct messages and not just nondeleted” ones.
The data Twitter served up on February 9th was in response to a warrant the court issued on January 19th.
It complied with 808 of them in full and did so partially for another 154, said a report in Rest of World earlier this year.
I’m a bot and I’m open source!
The transcripts, spotted by Politico, show that engineers for Twitter (now known as X) were able to produce Trump’s Twitter data after missing a January 7th deadline to comply with a search warrant that earned the company a $350,000 fine.
TL/DR: Twitter refused to play ball until it started costing them money.
A lawyer for the company, which was (and still largely seems to be) in disarray at the time following the takeover by Elon Musk…
Lmao BURN!
