The ex-US president’s lawyers had asked that the documents be kept under wraps until after the election, but were denied by the judge.
The federal judge presiding over Donald Trump’s election subversion case released a heavily redacted trove of evidence on Friday used by Special Counsel Jack Smith to bring charges against the former US president.
Hundreds of the 1,889 pages were blank, marked “sealed”, and the bulk of the visible material – social media posts by Trump, transcripts and memos – had already been publicly disclosed previously.
