Trump calls judge 'evil' for releasing election case files

Former US president and Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump has called a judge "the most evil person" as she released more than 1,800 pages of evidence in Special Counsel Jack Smith's election conspiracy case against him, according to a report by BBC.

Trump said US District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan's rejection of his request to delay releasing the "new evidence" until after next month's vote amounted to "election interference".

Legal analysts have debated whether filings in the case breach a justice department internal rule that prosecutors avoid any investigative step that might affect an election within 60 days of voting. But in her ruling, Judge Chutkan argued that if she had kept the files under wraps, that could itself have been construed as election interference.