Donald Trump's Daily Movements Before Jan. 6 to Be Revealed

Special Counsel Jack Smith plans to reveal the content of Donald Trump's phone in the weeks before the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021, according to a Monday court filing.

The document states that an expert witness whose identity is not yet known has already extracted and reviewed data from the phone Trump used while at the White House, as well as that of another unidentified individual close to the former president. The data includes Trump's activities on Twitter and other apps, images found on the phones and websites visited throughout the post-election period.

Trump, the frontrunner in the GOP presidential primary, has denied all wrongdoing in connection to the January 6 attack, and has repeatedly said that Smith's probe is part of a political witch hunt against him. Newsweek contacted Trump's 2024 campaign for comment by email on Tuesday.

The former president was banned from Twitter, which is now known as X, on January 8, 2021, following the deadly riots at the Capitol. The company came to the decision after two posts from Trump called the mob who took over the Capitol patriots. The permanent suspension of the former president's Twitter account was reversed by Elon Musk, who reinstated the former president's profile last year after taking over the company.

Special Counsel Smith is overseeing one of several cases brought against Trump this year, which sees the former president accused of conspiring to disenfranchise millions of voters and derail the lawful transfer of power.

The charges were filed on August 1 and the trial is expected to begin on March 4, 2024, the day before Super Tuesday and just months ahead of the presidential election. As of December 11, Trump was the frontrunner in Republican primary polling with 60 percent of the vote, according to polling aggregators FiveThirtyEight. Next year's election is likely to see a rematch between President Joe Biden and Trump.

The Monday court filing said that the witness, a tech expert, will testify that they "specifically identified the periods of time during which the defendant's phone was unlocked and the Twitter application was open on January 6."

Prosecutors obtained access to a treasure trove of data from Trump's Twitter account from the social-media company earlier this year, including the former president's DMs and location. But this is the first time that this data might make it into the trial.

The data presented by the expert witness could also reveal Trump's daily movements in his final weeks at the White House and on January 6, 2021. But the full extent of the impact that these revelations could have is still unclear, as it's not yet known if any information was shielded from Smith.