“If the court withheld information that the public otherwise had a right to access solely because of the potential political consequences of releasing it, that withholding could itself constitute - or appear to be - election interference,” she wrote in her ruling.
Much of the newly-released evidence is heavily redacted - but it does include then Vice-President Mike Pence’s formal announcement that he would not overturn the 2020 election results.
This new tranche of documents comes after a separate 165-page evidence brief was released earlier this month by special counsel Jack Smith. That contained a trove of new information about Trump’s alleged activities during the US Capitol riot on 6 January 2021.
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The new documents include transcripts of court hearings, interviews and speeches related to the case, as well as additional source material. Smith had indicated that much of the appendix contains sensitive information that should stay hidden from the public, and the released version contains hundreds of pages that remain under seal. That evidence, subject to a protective order issued at the start of the case last year, likely includes transcripts of testimony before a grand jury and FBI interviews.
But many of the documents include publicly available information, including voting tabulations and tweets from Trump and others connected to the case. Prosecutors also included Trump’s speech near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, in which he told a crowd of supporters that he won the election and said “we’re going to the Capitol.”
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Witness names were blacked out, but some could be identified by matching them up with other known events. For instance, former Attorney General William Barr describes being summoned to the White House after an interview in which he said the election had not been marred by large-scale fraud, and expecting to be fired.
A few days after that interview, Trump announced on social media that Barr had stepped down.