A federal court in Washington published this Friday thousands of documents about the investigation of special prosecutor Jack Smith in the case that investigates the role of the former president donald trump (2017-2021) in the assault on the Capitol.
In a ruling issued Thursday night, Judge Tanya Chutkan denied a request by the Republican’s legal team to keep documents secret until after the November 5 elections, in which Trump aspires to be elected president for the second time.
The most of 2,000 documents, Mostly with censored elements, they include Trump’s posts on the social network X, as well as documents drafted by the former president’s lawyer and former advisor, John Eastman.
They also include interviews with Trump collaborators carried out by the congressional committee that investigated the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The former president is being investigated for conspiring to obstruct Biden’s victory after the 2020 elections.
That day, about 10,000 people – most of them Trump supporters – marched towards the headquarters of Congress and about 800 broke into the building while Joe Biden’s victory in those elections was being certified. It is considered that there were in total five dead and about 140 officers injured related to that assault.
The documents are part of Smith’s attempt to get the case on track after the Supreme Court issued a ruling ensuring that Trump enjoys “partial” impunity for crimes he may have committed while holding the office of president.
After the Supreme Court’s decision in July, the court ordered Chutkan to analyze the accusation against the former president and decide which charges were not appropriate due to new immunity rules.
Smith presented on August 27 a new indictment maintaining the four previous charges against him, such as conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, but lowering the allegations to conform to that ruling.
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