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Georgia case against Trump dropped, ending efforts to punish president over 2020 election aftermath
A judge on Wednesday dismissed the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and others after the prosecutor who took over the case said he would not pursue the charges, ending the last effort to punish the president in the courts for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.
A federal judge on Monday refused to release from prison former Colorado clerk Tina Peters, the only ally of President Donald Trump currently behind bars for crimes related to the attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
The decision by a Georgia prosecutor not to pursue the massive Trump election interference case leaves some bad deeds unpunished.
The election interference case against President Trump in Georgia was dismissed last week, but the ghosts of the 2020 election are still looming over the state as next year’s midterms approach.
The defendant, accused of voting for Trump twice in 2020, argues the president’s pardon of allies who attempted to overturn his loss should apply to his alleged crimes.
A Fulton County judge granted his motion to drop the charges and dismissed the case in full on Wednesday, ending an unprecedented yearslong legal saga in Georgia.
During interviews with the FBI, the suspect arrested in the pipe bomb probe told investigators that he believed the 2020 election was stolen, providing perhaps the first indication of a possible motive for the bombs placed near the DNC and RNC headquarters,
Trump now faces no criminal trial for efforts to overturn the 2020 election after state and federal cases collapsed.
President Trump pardoned his former personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and a slate of other key figures charged in connection with their efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to a U.S. pardon attorney. Ed Martin, the government’s pardon ...
President Trump and more than a dozen of his allies were charged with offenses in Georgia relating to the 2020 presidential election.