Trump criminal charges for election fraud in Georgia officially dropped

The criminal election conspiracy case against President Donald Trump and several of his political allies has finally been formally dropped, CNN reported on 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," noted the report. "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."

For over a year, this case, unlike the other three former criminal cases against Trump, has sat in limbo, because the Georgia courts dismissed Willis from the case over misconduct complaints that involved her romantic relationship with a special prosecutor in her office.

After months of failure to find any prosecutors willing to take the case over from Willis, "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 noted.

Skandalakis, who declined comment to CNN, then made the decision to dismiss the case, officially ending the matter — a move that was widely expected, given Trump is now the sitting president.