State prosecutor dismisses charges against US president and others in election interference case
The case against Donald Trump and his co-defendants in Georgia ended on Wednesday with a filing for dismissal today by the state prosecutor who took over after the removal of Fani Willis, the Fulton county district attorney.
Pete Skandalakis, executive director of the prosecuting attorneys’ council of Georgia, confirmed that “it’s over”, with the one-page order issued by superior court Judge Scott McAfee dismissing the 2020 racketeering case. Skandalakis said he would be making no further comments about the matter.
A grand jury in Atlanta indicted Trump and 18 others in August 2023, using the state’s anti-racketeering law to accuse them of participating in a wide-ranging scheme to illegally overturn Trump’s narrow 2020 loss to Joe Biden in Georgia.
The case remained the only criminal prosecution of Trump, but Willis’ disqualification by the Georgia supreme court doomed the effort. The court ruled that her romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, revealed in dramatic court filings in January 2024, created an impermissible appearance of a conflict of interest.
