The long-running legal storm out of Georgia has blown itself out. The sweeping election-interference prosecution that once promised political thunder has evaporated with a single stroke: every charge against the U.S. President has been dismissed, shutting down a case that had been built as a sprawling racketeering saga.
The move came from Peter Skandalakis, the state official who recently seized the reins of the prosecution after the original architect of the case was sidelined. His decision — blunt in tone and final in effect — declared what was once whispered, then debated, and now written into the record: no one expects a sitting President to appear in a Georgia courtroom for trial. Pursuing the matter, he said, would be nothing more than theatre without an audience.
For Fulton County’s top prosecutor, who had launched the case two years ago and then lost command of it after ethics battles, the dismissal lands like a gavel falling the wrong way. Her marquee courtroom battle, which named not just the President but 18 others — including well-known legal allies from the chaotic post-2020 period — has now dissolved.
It was one of several criminal fronts the President faced after his 2020 loss. Only the New York hush-money matter made it to trial; he was convicted there but is already pushing to overturn that outcome. The rest, including this once-towering Georgia case, have steadily crumbled as political winds shifted and power returned to his hands.
The Georgia charges had claimed a coordinated attempt to upend the state’s 2020 results, fueled by a much-publicised phone call in which he urged officials to “find” the votes needed to flip the tally. All defendants had denied wrongdoing, and the case was expected to be a long, grinding courtroom brawl.
Instead, it ends with a quiet administrative thud.
Skandalakis, who now leads a state agency that supports local prosecutors, took over only after admitting he could not find anyone else willing to shoulder the load of such a complex, high-profile case. His decision, he insisted, was grounded not in politics but in law — and in reality.
Legal observers in Georgia noted the outcome was foreseeable. The agency now in charge simply lacked the machinery or manpower to battle through a multi-defendant racketeering trial that had already been disrupted by the removal of the original prosecutor for creating an “appearance of impropriety.”
And so the curtain falls.
A case once hailed as a defining legal reckoning now ends not with a verdict, but with a dismissal slip — another entry in the growing list of prosecutions reshaped, stalled, or swept aside by the President’s return to power.
