The DG at the top of the screen is the iPhone account holder’s initials.
That's not how mine is set up. Is that an option in settings?
See here (the contact's info is at top, according to Apple):
I had to go downstairs and look at my own phone. I see what you’re saying now. I even spent some time playing with the group chat and inline replies but can’t replicate exactly what is seen on the screenshot.
It is weird and needs to be explained.
For reasons unclear, Jake Novak texts Adams three days before the Times story was first published to tell Adams about the grand jury investigation into Gaetz. It's unknown if Adams responded to that text on that day. But, after the story was published, Adams texts Novak back to see what else he knows.
Novak - unbelievably - says that he's part of the effort to 'free Levinson' and this extortion claim is ' screwing up my efforts to free Bob Levinson.” When pressed by Adams about the extortion claim, Novak alleges that the texts that have been published supporting Gaetz' story have been 'altered.'
Honestly, no one in this tory is credible. Bob Levinson is SURELY dead (and that's the position of his family) and some of the people involved in this alleged extortion plot (including the man Novak says is a lifelong friend) have ROBUST histories of raising money off Levinson's name and never delivering anything in return. IOW, it's a con they've run on more than one person.
But, whatever the case, I thought it was interesting that Novak is alleging the texts were altered after you pointed out the unexplainable peculiarity of the iPhone messenger text that Gaetz's father 'received'.