Georgia prosecutor drops 2020 election interference case against Trump

By Nile Post Editor | Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Georgia prosecutor drops 2020 election interference case against Trump
Pete Skandalakis filed a motion to dismiss the case that initially accused Trump and others of plotting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the state in his favour of Joe Biden.

BBC - A Georgia prosecutor has dropped the 2020 election-interference case against President Donald Trump.

Pete Skandalakis filed a motion to dismiss the case that initially accused Trump and others of plotting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the state in his favour of Joe Biden.

The state charges were the last remaining criminal legal case against the US president stemming from the 2020 election. It was first brought by district attorney Fani Willis, but she was removed from the case by the state's supreme court after a personal scandal.

"A fair and impartial prosecutor has put an end to this lawfare," an attorney for Trump said in response to the dismissal.

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Willis was removed from the case after the court found a romantic relationship with a special prosecutor assigned to the case created an "appearance of impropriety."

Skandalakis, executive director of the nonpartisan agency Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia, appointed himself to the case after Willis' disqualification and when other state prosecutors declined to take the case.

In Wednesday's motion to a Fulton County judge, Skandalakis said he was discontinuing the case "to serve the interests of justice and promote judicial finality."

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