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- Trump's lawyers took a page from prosecutors and dug up his social media posts in a court filing.
- Prosecutors used Trump's tweets to allege he illegally tried to overturn the 2020 election results.
- Defense lawyers used his posts to allege that prosecutors cherry-picked from Trump's statements.
Donald Trump's lawyers took a page out of the federal prosecutors' playbook and included his social media posts in a new court filing.
The difference? While prosecutors use Trump's old tweets against him, his lawyers pointed to them to say that the special counsel Jack Smith's January 6 case against Trump should be tossed out.