Special counsel Jack Smith has Trump’s Twitter direct messages after court order

Special counsel Jack Smith has obtained a cache of former President Trump’s Twitter direct messages after a federal judge ordered the social media company to hand them over last winter, court papers revealed late Tuesday. Prosecutors received an undisclosed number of messages sent from Trump’s Twitter account (now called X), along with drafts and deleted messages, as part of a trove of information account including public tweets and other data. It was previously not known that Trump, who famously avoids email and text messaging, used Twitter’s direct messaging feature to communicate. The revel...