A number of Secret Service agents’ work phones “did not contain any recoverable information,” according to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s testimony. This casts doubt on the agency’s assertion that text messages written around the time of the Capitol uprising on January 6, 2021, were permanently erased.
Trump is charged on a federal level for allegedly meddling in the 2020 election. The former president is involved in four cases total, two of which involve allegations of tampering. Trump asserts his innocence and disavows any misconduct in the face of the accusations.
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The legal team representing former President Donald Trump has asked to see more evidence in the ongoing lawsuit pertaining to claims of electoral meddling. In response, the special counsel said that the prosecutors had previously retrieved the allegedly compromised devices and had given them back to Trump’s staff without raising any issues. The special counsel, Smith, contends that approving the motion will simply result in needless postponements of the trial’s start date, which is set for March 2024.
“Though the defendant points to the fact that the Government obtained during the investigation ‘several official phones from USSS [U.S. Secret Service] employees,’…he fails to inform the Court that the phones did not contain any recoverable information and that, though informed that the Government intended to return the phones to USSS by a certain date, he failed to interpose an objection,” peruse the Saturday-filed response.
The Secret Service blamed a replacement software for lost text messages. Devices were “reset” under this procedure upon request from a Congressional committee looking into the rebellion. The Secret Service vehemently refutes allegations that it deleted the texts on purpose to shield Trump.
After the texts were deleted, were they recovered by the investigators from the phones? There are some questions because the Department of Justice still has the original devices.
“J6 committee subpoenaed the texts only to be told they were not recoverable,” Political pundit Julie Kelly wrote on Sunday. “Now it looks like DOJ had [the] actual phones but still could not find the deleted messages?”
“This is insane—no one can possibly believe this given the invasive tools the govt has and has used in this investigation.”
The wealthy founder of X, once known as Twitter, Elon Musk, answered, “Really?”
Exposing the Causal Game: Julie Kelly clarifies the unaccounted-for messages from the Secret Service.
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“It appears DOJ is part of the scandal of the missing Secret Service texts. As I reported a few days ago, thousands of texts between 2 dozen Secret Service officials/agents including the director and Robert Engel–the agent Trump allegedly attacked on J6 according to Cassidy Hutchinson–were deleted at the end of Jan 2021,” Kelly noted.
“USSS claimed the purge was caused by a pre-planned reset of devices–and it happened after House Dems notified exec branch to preserve records related to Jan 6,” she continued.
“J6 committee subpoenaed the texts only to be told they were not recoverable. Now it looks like DOJ had actual phones but still could not find the deleted messages?” she asked.
“This is insane–no one can possibly believe this given the invasive tools the govt has and has used in this investigation,” she said, adding, “This is in addition to Biden’s DHS refusing to give House GOP numerous transcribed interviews with Secret Service officials–also apparently the one with Engel.”
Smith had previously said that the Secret Service gave both sides’ legal teams 3.1 million pages of material, and in his recent denial of Trump’s request, he said that the data was “only marginally relevant and yet constitutes a sizable portion of the discovery.”
A new motion to halt the trial is being made by Trump’s lawyers while they await an appeal of Judge Tanya Chutkan’s earlier ruling. They contend that presidential immunity should be applied to the events of January 6.
Jack Smith aims to further the public interest by taking his lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court without going through the typical appeals process. He is committed to seeing the matter settled at the nation’s top court prior to the 2024 election.
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