Georgia prosecutors on Wednesday formally dismissed the Fulton County Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) case against President Donald Trump.
The move officially ends what had once been viewed as the most dangerous legal threat to Trump’s political future during his battle to return to the White House.
The decision means Trump now faces no remaining criminal charges related to the 2020 election.
The federal cases brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith, one alleging election interference leading up to January 6 and another involving classified documents, were previously dropped.
With Georgia’s exit, most of the Democrats’ lawfare attacks against Trump have been cleared.
Peter Skandalakis, the special prosecutor assigned to review the Georgia case, said the legal obstacles made the prosecution untenable.
“Given the complexity of the legal issues at hand — ranging from constitutional questions and the Supremacy Clause to immunity, jurisdiction, venue, speedy-trial concerns, and access to federal records — and even assuming each of these issues were resolved in the State’s favor, bringing this case before a jury in 2029, 2030, or even 2031 would be nothing short of a remarkable feat,” Skandalakis wrote.
He said he considered breaking Trump off from his co-defendants and trying the others first while waiting for Trump’s second term to conclude.
But doing so, he explained, “would be both illogical and unduly burdensome and costly for the State and for Fulton County.”
Skandalakis said continuing the case would not serve Georgia citizens and that dismissal was the only responsible option.
The case began with fanfare in August 2023, when Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis charged Trump and 18 others under the state’s RICO statute for their efforts to challenge the 2020 vote count.
Willis, a career Democrat, launched her “investigation” in early 2021 after Trump’s phone call with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger became public.
During the call, Trump urged Raffensperger to ensure all the votes were counted.
However, Democrats argue that Trump was suggesting that Raffensperger should fabricate votes.
Willis’s prosecution collapsed over time.
She was eventually removed from the case following a protracted legal fight over her authority, and Trump’s 2024 victory further destabilized the prosecution.
That left Skandalakis, head of the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia, to issue the final dismissal order.
The case reached its highest level of public drama in August 2023, when Trump voluntarily surrendered at the Fulton County Jail.
He spent roughly 20 minutes in custody and took the first mugshot of any U.S. president.
The Fulton County case had been widely considered the most likely criminal matter to reach trial because, unlike federal charges, it could not be nullified by a presidential pardon.
With Wednesday’s dismissal, that threat is gone.
Trump’s legal slate in election-related matters is now effectively clear, marking a decisive end to years of litigation tied to the 2020 campaign.
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