"The individual represented in this video spoke in a personal capacity and does not represent or speak on Twitter," Twitter told International Business Times. "Twitter only responds to valid legal requests and does not share any user information with the police without such request."
"We deplore the deceptive and clandestine tactics by which these images were obtained and were selectively edited to fit a predetermined narrative," said the Twitter spokesman. "Twitter is committed to enforcing our rules without prejudice and to the empowerment of each voice on our platform, in accordance with the Twitter Rules."
Project Veritas, a conservative group trying to expose media bias, released a video with the participation of a senior Twitter network security engineer, Clay Haynes, at a meeting. You can hear Haynes saying that Twitter is "more than happy to help the Department of Justice in its small investigation" by giving them "every tweet that [Trump] has published, even those he has deleted." Any direct message, any mention.
Trump's campaign is being examined by special adviser Robert Mueller, appointed by the Department of Justice, for possible collusion with the Russians during the 2016 campaign.
In another meeting, Haynes was caught saying that Twitter can reveal "every message, every tweet, whatever you enter, what profile pictures you upload."
The founder of Project Veritas, James O'Keefe, argued that the video showed political bias within Twitter because Haynes says about Trump: "I do not like it and it's a terrible human being."
But Haynes also makes clear that Twitter will not access information on any Twitter account, including Trump's, unless the information has been requested to the police after obtaining a citation.
Haynes added that Twitter would not do anything to prevent Trump from tweeting.
"It was not my decision, the decision was that most of the things that it tweets are completely interesting, and because it is newsworthy, even though it is making a face of itself and the country, we have to leave those tweets", said Haynes.
O'Keefe said that Project Veritas has more images of Haynes and that the new video is "only the first part".
Project Veritas, which has been accused of editing its videos selectively, was recently attacked after one of its reporters was exposed to throwing a false story to the Washington Post about Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.
