Trump judge releases 1,889 pages of election interference evidence against the former president

• A federal judge has released additional evidence against Donald Trump in his election interference case.
• The release follows a previously unsealed motion with new evidence against Trump by special counsel Jack Smith.
• Trump tried to delay the release of Friday’s court documents until after the 2024 presidential election.

A federal judge on Friday released more than 1,800 pages of documents related to the election interference case against Donald Trump, but there was little new information in the collection of public documents and transcripts.

United States District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan approved the release of the documents over the objections of Trump’s lawyers. The collection is related to special counsel Jack Smith’s 165-page bombshell motion that included a trove of new evidence against Trump in the case.

The documents released Friday are an appendix to the previously unsealed motion in which Smith and his team argued that Trump is not immune from criminal charges tied to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The lengthy appendix includes heavily-redacted records that have been previously made publicly available.

Parts of Trump’s infamous phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger are redacted. Hundreds of pages were withheld entirely, leaving only “SEALED” in all-caps and other perfunctory information visible.

Trump’s attorneys filed a motion Thursday to attempt to delay the release of the appendix until November 14 — nine days after the 2024 presidential election, but Chutkan rejected the arguments.

Trump has pleaded not guilty to the four federal charges against him in the case.

This story is developing and will be updated.