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- 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 of prosecutors’ evidence in the election interference case against Donald Trump after the former president failed in an 11th hour attempt to delay the unsealing of the files.
The release of the 1,889 pages of documents by United States District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan comes after the judge, earlier this month, released 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 is 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.
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 is a developing story and will be updated.