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Former President Donald Trump slammed U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan on Friday for releasing 1,900 pages of previously sealed documents related to his 2020 election interference case.

“It’s a terrible thing what’s happening, and the judge is, this judge is the most evil person,” he said on conservative radio host Dan Bongino’s show. “What judge would say, ‘We’re going to release something, you know, a couple of days before the election?’”

He also slammed special counsel Jack Smith for orchestrating the documents’ release, calling him a “deranged individual” and “sick puppy.”

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The nearly 2,000 pages of heavily redacted, released documents contain “snippets of the evidence Smith relied on to charge the former president,” according to CNN.

The good news is the non-redacted information mostly contains “information that’s already been released publicly, including a transcript of Trump’s call with the Georgia secretary of state after the 2020 election where Trump asked him to ‘find’ votes, photos of the 2020 fake elector certificates, and Vice President Mike Pence’s letter to Congress explaining why he could not reject congressional certification of the election on January 6, 2021.”

But the documents do contain some previously unseen content.

“In one instance, there was some new detail from the transcript of the House January 6 committee’s 2022 interview with an unnamed [Trump] White House employee,” CNN notes.

Earlier this year, House Republicans released a transcript of the interview with the employee, but they first redacted a number of the employee’s responses. Those responses are no longer redacted.

The responses show that after Trump became aware of the Jan. 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol, he asked for a Diet Coke.

The transcript specifically shows that when Trump was told of the rioting, he responded by asking to see it himself.

“He was like what do you mean?” the Trump White House employee told the J6 committee. “I said they’re rioting there at the Capitol. And he was, like oh really? And then he was like all right, let’s go see.”

“I’m taking off his outer coat that he’s wearing right now, and I get the TV, like, ready for him, and hand him over the remote, and he starts watching it. And I stepped out to get him a Diet Coke, come back in, and that’s pretty much it for me as he’s watching it and, like, seeing it for himself,” the employee added.

The documents were released Thursday despite a bid by Trump to delay their release until after the 2024 presidential election. In a five-page order, Chutkan rejected the argument that by releasing the documents, she’d effectively be interfering in the election.

“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. “The court will therefore continue to keep political considerations out of its decision-making, rather than incorporating them as Defendant requests.”

All this comes weeks ahead of Trump’s legal team releasing “his own blockbuster brief of up to 180 pages with its own appendix of sources arguing why he should not still face trial after the Supreme Court’s July ruling establishing that presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution for their official acts,” according to The Washington Post.

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