A Few Thoughts on Trump’s Direct Messages

We learned this week that Special Counsel Jack Smith had served a search warrant on Twitter to obtain data from Donald Trump’s account, including all his direct messages, draft tweets, and location data from October 2020 to January 2021.

The revelation that there were private messages in Trump’s account was particularly extraordinary, since the former president has been famously cautious about using written forms of communications in his dealings with aides and allies.