Jack Smith plans to call Trump cellphone tracker as expert in Jan. 6 case: report

Special counsel Jack Smith plans to call an expert who tracked former President Donald Trump's cell phone use, including his activity on Twitter, during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021, reports the Messenger.

This information was revealed Monday in a three-page filing in Smith's federal Washington D.C. election interference case against the former president, the Messenger reports.

The expert has "knowledge, skill, experience, training, and education beyond the ordinary lay person regarding the analysis of cellular phone data, including the use of Twitter and other applications on cell phones," according to the report.

The expert crunched data from Trump's White House cell phone and that of another person unnamed in the filing, the Messenger reports.

Data included images and visited websites to determine how the phones were used throughout the post-election period through Jan. 6, according to the Messenger.

The prosecution team also wants to call an expert who specializes in geographic location data and location history data, including Google location history data, according to the Messenger.

Legal analyst Elie Honig appeared on CNN Monday night to discuss the new filing, telling Anderson Cooper it was "so important."

"Cell phones have now become evidentiary bonanzas," Honig said. "They can tell you virtually about everything a person is doing."