Peter Skandalakis, the new Georgia prosecutor in charge of the case of Donald Trump’s alleged interference in the 2020 presidential election in that state, has decided not to proceed with the case, according to CNN.
The Republican was accused in August 2023 of trying to change the election results in Georgia, which he lost by less than 12,000 votes to Democratic candidate Joe Biden. The New York politician was taken into the Fulton County Jail in Georgia for a few minutes so that his fingerprints could be taken and his photos could be taken. The image of him, at that time, no longer holding the office of President, visibly angry and scowling, wanders around the world.
The charges were brought against Trump after he learned of a phone conversation between him and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which he demanded that the president “find” the 11,780 votes needed for him to win in that state.
Al-Jumhuri was charged with 13 crimes, including conspiring to impersonate an official, pressuring an official to betray his oath of office, forging documents, and conspiring to commit forgery in a “criminal association.”
Skandalakis took over the case last month after taking it over from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who was fired after it was revealed that a romantic relationship with one of his subordinates was involved in the operation.
The fact is that after the indictment and Trump’s acquittal, the case stalled in court. No major progress was expected now that the New York mogul has returned to the White House. In addition, there were 14 other defendants such as former New York mayor and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows who could still be tried. Your case is also archived. Also among them is Jeffrey Clark, the Justice Department official who participated in attempts to manipulate the voting results. Attorneys John Eastman and Kenneth Chesbrough, authors of a scheme to use fake voters to vote for Trump, were also acquitted, as was their campaign consultant Mike Roman.
Steve Sadow, Trump’s lead lawyer in Georgia, praised the case being dropped. “The political persecution of President Trump by ousted Attorney General Fanny Willis has finally ended. This case should never have been brought. A fair and impartial prosecutor has put an end to this legal war,” the site said. AP.
After the 2020 elections, which Trump lost to Biden, and the attempted assault on the Capitol building, the Republican was charged in four criminal cases. The first involves paying a sum of money to a pornographic film actress to silence an extramarital affair between the two.
Another reason has to do with the handling of confidential papers that he moved into after losing the election at his private residence at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach.
In addition to the Georgia election fraud case, Trump was also charged by a federal judge with attempted election fraud in the 2020 presidential election by publishing accusations of election irregularities that he knew were false, delaying the vote count and pressuring the Department of Justice to support these false accusations.