Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith on Monday filed a motion informing the court of three tech expert witnesses he intends to call in disgraced former President Trump’s upcoming federal trial on conspiracy charges stemming from his failed post-2020 election coup attempt.
Each of the witnesses will testify on topics of cell phone location data and what not with the first and second concerning the movements of Trump’s fans from the Ellipse to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021 following the demented speech in which he incited them to attack Congress.
The third one however is a bit more interesting however, as Smith writes they have “knowledge, skill, experience, training, and education beyond the ordinary lay person regarding the analysis of cellular phone data, including the use of Twitter and other applications on cell phones. The Government expects that Expert 3 will testify that he/she: (1) 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,” which is, uh, pretty fucking big if true that they got a phone that Trump used.