President Donald Trump has officially dodged a criminal election conspiracy case in Georgia, CNN reported Wednesday.
“The historic state racketeering charges were filed on August 14, 2023, by Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis, an elected Democrat who launched a lengthy investigation into Trump’s alleged interference in the Georgia election in early 2021,” the report noted. “The investigation began shortly after a January phone call became public in which Trump pressured Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, to ‘find’ the votes necessary for him to win the state in the Presidential election.”
The case, which dragged on for over a year, was unlike Trump’s other criminal cases. Courts removed Willis from the proceedings over misconduct complaints tied to her romantic relationship with a special prosecutor in her office, leaving the case without leadership.
After months of trying — and failing — to find another prosecutor to take it on, “Peter Skandalakis, director of the Prosecuting Attorney’s Council of Georgia, a bipartisan collaboration of six district attorneys and three solicitors general from across the state, assigned the case to himself earlier this month,” CNN reported.
Skandalakis, who declined to comment, quickly moved to dismiss the charges, officially ending the legal battle — a result many observers had anticipated, given Trump is now the sitting president.
