CV NEWS FEED // The Georgia judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s “election interference” case dismissed six of the 41 charges against Trump and his co-defendants Wednesday.
The Associated Press (AP) reported that “Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee quashed six counts in the indictment, including three against Trump.”
AP also pointed out that McAfee “left in place other counts — including 10 facing Trump — and said prosecutors could seek a new indictment to try to reinstate the ones he dismissed.”
As three of the six dismissed charges applied to the former president, he now faces ten charges in the case, down from the original 13. Attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani also now faces ten charges, also down from 13.
The judge wrote that the six total counts “contain all the essential elements of the crimes but fail to allege sufficient detail regarding the nature of their commission.”
“[The charges] do not give the Defendants enough information to prepare their defenses intelligently, as the Defendants could have violated the Constitution and thus the statute in dozens, if not hundreds, of distinct way,” the ruling added.
McAfee nixed the three charges against Trump the day after the former president secured enough delegates to become the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee in field-clearing primary performance.
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The New York Times called the ruling a “surprise.”
“While the ruling was certainly a setback for prosecutors, several legal observers said on Wednesday that it did not weaken the core of the case, the state racketeering charge that was brought against all of the defendants,” stated the Times.
Trump’s lead defense attorney Steve Sadow commended the ruling, calling it “the correct legal decision.”
“The counts dismissed against President Trump are 5, 28 and 38, which falsely claimed he solicited [Georgia] public officials to violate their oath of office,” the attorney noted:
[T]he prosecution failed to make specific allegations of any alleged wrongdoing on those counts. The entire prosecution of President Trump is political, constitutes election interference, and should be dismissed.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-MO, took to X (formerly Twitter) to express a similar sentiment.
“And there you have it,” Smith wrote. “Judge McAfee’s decision to dismiss charges in President Trump’s sham indictment tells you everything you need to know.”
“His reasoning confirms the weaponization of our justice system,” the lawmaker added. “These charges were brought to punish political opponents and should never have been brought in the first place.”
The Times report also clarified that McAfee’s “ruling was not related to a defense effort to disqualify Fani T. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Ga., who is leading the case.”
“A ruling on that matter, which has made headlines for weeks after it was revealed that Ms. Willis had engaged in a romantic relationship with another prosecutor, is expected by the end of the week,” according to the Times.
Observers nonetheless considered the charges’ dismissal to be a major defeat for Willis.
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Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-TX, posted an enthusiastic message to X after news broke of the development.
“WOW! Fani Willis’s case against President Trump just EXPLODED!” he emphasized:
The judge just threw out 6 of her bogus charges because he believes they’re based on NOTHING! The judge needs to dismiss the rest of the charges as well, it’s a total WITCH HUNT!
Attorney and Republican National Committee National Spokeswoman Madison Gesiotto Gilbert said she “is guessing” that Willis will soon be disqualified from the case.
“All they need is to prove that there is an appearance of a conflict, not even that there was an actual conflict of interest here,” Gesiotto Gilbert stated in a video posted to X.
Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp appointed McAfee to the state bench early last year. The judge previously served in Kemp’s administration as the Inspector General of Georgia.
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