The prosecutor who took over the Georgia 2020 election interference case against President Trump and more than a dozen allies moved to drop all charges Wednesday, saying pursuing the matter would be “unproductive.”
Peter Skandalakis – who appointed himself as prosecutor after he failed to find anyone else willing to take the job following the ouster of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis – filed a motion to dismiss the case against Trump and 14 other co-defendants Wednesday.
Skandalakis acknowledged in the 23-page filing that the case “is on life support and the decision [on] what to do with it falls on me and me alone” before concluding that the appropriate authority to bring charges was former special counsel Jack Smith — whose federal version of the Georgia case was dismissed following Trump’s election in 2024.
“[I]f Special Counsel Jack Smith, with all the resources of the federal government at his disposal, after reviewing the evidence in this case and considering the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States, along with the years of litigation such a case would inevitably entail, concluded that prosecution would be fruitless,” Skandalakis wrote, “then I too find that, despite the available evidence, pursuing the prosecution of all those involved in State of Georgia v. Donald Trump, et al. on essentially federal grounds would be equally unproductive.”
