
Special counsel Jack Smith has obtained Donald Trump's cell phone data from his time in the White House and plans to use it as prosecutorial evidence as part of the former president's election subversion trial in D.C., a Monday filing shows.
In the court filing, Smith stated that he intends to present the expert witness who pulled and copied the data from Trump's phone and a phone from an unidentified MAGA ally. As noted in the filing, Smith's team anticipates that the expert will observe to jurors how they "extracted and processed data from the White House cell phones used by the defendant and one other individual (Individual 1); (2) reviewed and analyzed data on the defendant’s phone and on Individual 1’s phone, including analyzing images found on the phones and websites visited; (3) determined the usage of these phones throughout the post-election period, including on and around January 6, 2021; and (4) specifically identified the periods of time during which the defendant’s phone was unlocked and the Twitter application was open on January 6."