Georgia Prosecutor Dismisses Election Interference Case Against Trump, Citing “Illogical” Delays

The sweeping racketeering case against President Donald Trump and his allies in Georgia has been officially dismissed, ending the final criminal prosecution targeting the President regarding the 2020 election. Peter Skandalakis, the Executive Director of the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia, filed a motion on Wednesday to drop all charges, a request that was immediately granted by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee.
Skandalakis, who took over the prosecution following the high-profile disqualification of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, issued a blistering assessment of the case’s viability. In his filing, he argued that continuing the prosecution “does not serve the citizens of Georgia,” effectively dismantling the legal strategy that had sought to try the President and 14 remaining co-defendants under the state’s RICO statutes.
The decision was driven by the practical impossibility of bringing a sitting president to trial. Skandalakis noted that even if the state prevailed in every complex pre-trial battle—ranging from presidential immunity and Supremacy Clause challenges to venue disputes—a trial could not realistically begin until after Trump leaves office. “Bringing this case before a jury in 2029, 2030, or even 2031 would be nothing short of a remarkable feat,” Skandalakis wrote, dismissing the timeline as untenable.
The prosecutor also rejected the option of “severing” the case to try Trump’s co-defendants separately while the President served his term. He described such a strategy as “illogical and unduly burdensome and costly for the State and for Fulton County,” signaling a complete retreat from the aggressive posture held by his predecessor.
The dismissal marks the total collapse of the legal challenges that once threatened Trump’s political future. It follows the earlier termination of federal cases led by Special Counsel Jack Smith, who withdrew charges related to classified documents and election interference shortly after Trump’s re-election victory in 2024. Skandalakis explicitly referenced this federal retreat in his reasoning, arguing that if the Department of Justice with its vast resources saw no path forward, a state-level prosecution based on the same conduct “would be equally unproductive.”
The case, originally brought in August 2023, alleged a vast conspiracy to overturn Joe Biden’s narrow victory in Georgia. While four initial defendants accepted plea deals, the core of the indictment—and the threat it posed to the President—is now dead. Trump’s legal team celebrated the ruling as a vindication of their long-standing argument that the charges were politically motivated “lawfare” that ultimately failed to withstand judicial and electoral scrutiny.