This according to a decision made by Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington DC on Thursday. Chutkan rejected the Trump side's request to keep the documents until after the presidential election and on Friday they were made public, according to Politico.
The material, consisting of 1,889 pages, is part of the revised federal indictment that special prosecutor Jack Smith submitted last autumn, in light of the Supreme Court's decision that a president enjoys immunity from prosecution for official actions.
However, much of the material is heavily redacted, which means that the details that emerge are limited, according to BBC.
The case concerns Trump's attempts to have the 2020 presidential election declared invalid and his actions on January 6, 2021, when Trump supporters carried out a deadly storming of the US Congress building.
The material includes, among other things, transcribed court proceedings, interviews, and speeches related to the case. Some of what has now been released is material that was already publicly available.
Trump is the Republican presidential candidate in the election on November 5. His lawyers claimed that releasing the documents would constitute electoral interference. Chutkan, on the other hand, considered the material to be of high public interest and that not publishing it would be electoral interference.
