Trump should be 'very, very concerned' that Jack Smith has his phone data: Jan. 6 adviser
Jack Smith, Donald Trump (Smith photo via Saul Loeb for AFP, Trump photo via AFP)
December 16, 2023
Jack Smith might be able to do what the Jan. 6 Committee couldn't: "Blow this case wide open!"
Former Virginia congressman Denver Riggleman discussed the revelation that Special Counsel Jack Smith was able to pull data directly from former President Donald Trump's phone in his federal election interference case.
"I was an intelligence officer in the USAF and NSA — and was an adviser for the Jan 6 committee," Riggleman wrote in a Twitter/X post teeing up the video. "The fact that Jack Smith has Trump’s cell phone data should make Trump very, very concerned."
Smith outlined in a court filing on Monday how he intended to perform "analysis of cellular phone data, including the use of Twitter and other applications on cell phones" as part of Trump’s alleged efforts to subvert the 2020 election.
Riggleman listed the possible data that may exist on the former president's cell phone such as files, contacts, how data is stored, downloads, undeleted texts, open apps.
"Your phone is your life," he noted.
As a Jan. 6 Committee advisor they pored over 500 call records and they also donated "30 million lines of data to the archives... to this point I don't know if they're being used," he said.
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But the potential for Smith and company here could possibly be to see who Trump is "talking to that might be talking to other actors that are nefarious."
Riggleman started running down what-if scenarios to the leadup on the day of Jan. 6, 2021, such as if Trump was in touch with either Senior Advisor Dan Scavino or Roger Stone and if they were possibly go-betweens with members of groups like the Proud Boys or Oath Keepers.
Ultimately, there is incredible dot-connecting-possibilities.
"So when you combine device data and combine that with call records and you combine that with social media analysis and you combine that with interviews — oh my goodness — you have this four-legged stool of evidence that can be very powerful going forward."
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