After the US election: Trump wants to stop election fraud proceedings in Georgia

After his re-election, Donald Trump’s lawyers are also calling for the proceedings against the US President-elect in the US state of Georgia to be stopped. Acting presidents should not be prosecuted, the lawyers argued in their application to the responsible court. Trump will move back into the White House on January 20th. Since the election fraud case is a federal indictment, Trump cannot have the case dismissed through the Justice Department himself – unlike federal cases.

Trump is charged in Georgia with several co-defendants for his attempts to influence the 2020 election. Trump’s lawyers have largely blocked the investigation – the responsible prosecutor, Fani Willis, has recently suffered numerous setbacks. The Georgia Supreme Court is currently considering whether to remove Willis from the case. If this were to happen, the entire process could collapse. But even if Willis remains in charge, it is unlikely that the trial will begin before the end of Trump’s second term in office – i.e. in 2029.

Trump had previously requested that the conviction against him for concealing hush money in New York be overturned. Jurors in the US metropolis found Trump guilty on 34 counts at the end of May. The public prosecutor’s office has already closed the proceedings in the secret service documents affair and attempted election fraud at the federal level. She argued with the Justice Department’s practice of not investigating sitting presidents.