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 announced that they will be made public on Friday, according to Politico.
The material is part of the reworked federal indictment that special prosecutor Jack Smith submitted last fall, in light of the Supreme Court's decision that a president enjoys immunity from prosecution for official actions.
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.
Trump is the Republican presidential candidate in the election on November 5. His lawyers claim that publishing the documents constitutes electoral interference. Chutkan, on the other hand, writes that the material is of high public interest and that not publishing it is electoral interference.
