Nearly 2,000 pages of evidence against Donald Trump compiled by DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith was unsealed by Judge Tanya Chutkan on Friday, an October surprise Trump's lawyers unsuccessfully tried very hard to prevent.
Legal experts immediately went to work parsing the heavily redacted immunity brief to see just how much legal trouble Trump faces in connection with his actions around the 2020 election and the January 6th riot at the Capitol.
Trump and his lawyers had objected to the unsealing of the filing so close to November's presidential election, with a final Hail Mary attempt on Thursday to ask for a delay until after the election. Judge Chutkan has made it clear this case has always been about Trump's four federal charges, not his political campaign.
Other parts of the document that had already been released publicly include a transcript of the infamous January 2021 phone call where Trump asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" 11,780 votes needed to beat Joe Biden in the state at the last election.
The redactions are most likely connected to the unnamed co-conspirators who were named in the federal indictment against Trump but who have not yet been charged.
The filings also include screenshots of Trump's tweets and other social media posts about the 2020 election, and former Vice President Mike Pence's letter to Congress explaining why he could not refuse to certify the 2020 election results on January 6, 2021, during his "purely ceremonial role" as presiding officer of the Senate.