Court releases more than 2,000 pages of evidence in Trump’s Jan. 6 criminal trial

A federal court has released a dossier of evidence that special prosecutor Jack Smith presented in the criminal case against Donald Trump for election interference.

The documents released Friday total more than 2,000 pages, most of which are still sealed. The witnesses’ names were redacted, but some of them were identified from previous reports, including former Attorney General William Barr and Georgia election official Ruby Freeman. The newly released evidence includes testimony from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, a trove of tweets from the former president, as well as grand jury testimony and other records that remain sealed. FOX TV Stations is still reviewing the documents.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered the release Thursday, denying Trump’s request to delay the release of the documents until after the election.

“If the court withholds information that the public would otherwise have a right to access, solely because of the potential political consequences of its publication, that withholding could itself constitute, or appear to be, election interference,” Judge Chutkan said in her ruling .

Trump has been accused of election interference in his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, which he lost to Joe Biden. Trump is charged with obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to violate the right to vote.

The new dossier of evidence follows an explosive court filing published on October 2nd. This is what these documents claim Trump “resorted to crime” in his failed attempt to stay in power.. The Justice Department argues that these were private actions that, as a former president, do not entitle him to immunity from prosecution.

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The Oct. 2 filing details conversations between Trump and then-Vice President Mike Pence and also accuses Trump of giving “a speech intended to incite his supporters and motivate them to come to the Capitol” on Jan. 6, 2021 to march.”

Trump’s lawyers are expected to file their own brief, up to 180 pages long, outlining why he should not be tried after the Supreme Court ruled in July that presidents should enjoy broad immunity from prosecution enjoy their official acts.

This is a developing story.