2020 Election Interference Case Against President Trump “Dismissed In Its Entirety”

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A Georgia judge has moved to dismiss the 2020 election interference case against President Trump and his co-defendants.

The decision from Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee came shortly after the prosecutor said he would not proceed with the charges.

“In my professional judgment, the citizens of Georgia are not served by pursuing this case in full for another five to ten years,” Pete Skandalakis wrote, according to ABC News.

Skandalakis is the prosecutor who took over the case after the original prosecutor was disqualified.

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Within minutes of Skandalakis’ court filing, the judge overseeing the case granted the request and dismissed the case.

“This case is hereby dismissed in its entirety,” wrote Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee, who earlier this month had scheduled a Dec. 1 “status/pretrial” hearing in the case.

Trump and 18 others pleaded not guilty in August 2023 to all charges in a sweeping racketeering indictment for alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia.

The charges, which were brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis following Trump’s Jan. 2, 2021, phone call in which he asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” the votes needed to win the state, allege that the defendants solicited state leaders throughout the country, harassed and misled a Georgia election worker, and pushed phony claims that the election was stolen, all in an effort for Trump to remain in power despite his election loss.

Trump and the other defendants surrendered to authorities at Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail, where Trump was released on a $200,000 bond after having his mug shot taken in a first for a former U.S. president.

Steve Sadow, Trump’s lead Georgia defense counsel, called the case “lawfare.”

“The political persecution of President Trump by disqualified DA Fani Willis is finally over. This case should never have been brought. A fair and impartial prosecutor has put an end to this lawfare,” Sadow said, according to Fox News.

“This is the last of the criminal prosecutions that have been hanging over Donald Trump as he entered the White House,” CNN correspondent Kara Scannell said.

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The Georgia case yielded the iconic 2023 mugshot of then-candidate Trump.

“Never before, and hopefully never again, will our country face circumstances such as these. The case is now nearly five years removed from President Trump’s phone call with the Secretary of State, and two years have passed since the Grand Jury returned charges against President Trump and the eighteen other defendants,” Skandalakis noted. “There is no realistic prospect that a sitting President will be compelled to appear in Georgia to stand trial on the allegations in this indictment. Donald J. Trump’s current term as President of the United States of America does not expire until January 20, 2029; by that point, eight years will have elapsed since the phone call at issue.”

The prosecutor explained why the other defendants in the criminal case would not be tried separately.

“Severing President Trump from the remaining defendants and conducting separate trials, while simultaneously waiting for the conclusion of his term and addressing all of the aforementioned legal issues, would be both illogical and unduly burdensome and costly for the State and for Fulton County,” Skandalakis wrote. “The Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia lacks the resources to conduct multiple trials in this matter.”



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