A judge on Friday stripped Fulton County District Attorney Fanni Willis from the pending investigation into Trump over allegations made after the 2020 presidential election, ABC News reported on Saturday. He scheduled a public hearing to decide whether to approve former President Donald Trump’s motion to do so.
The former president’s motion is scheduled to be heard at 10 a.m. on Aug. 10, when a judge will decide whether to exclude Mr. Willis from the case and whether a special purpose grand jury report, which provides much of the admissibility of the case, will be issued. determine if it is allowed. for use at an affordable rate, according to To ABC News. President Trump has disqualified Willis over allegations that he tried to overturn the 2020 Georgia election results, citing Trump’s lawyers’ claims that the lawsuit was illegal and without merit. , argued that the evidence should be excluded from the investigation. (Related article: ‘Crooked President’: President Trump says he will ‘crush’ Biden in election after slamming DeSantis poll numbers)
“Nevertheless, the supervising judge and district attorney at every turn trample procedural safeguards to the rights of petitioners and others,” Trump’s filing said, according to ABC News. ing. “The whole process is now mired in an incurable infection, and what follows is legally sound and not publicly respectable.”
Fulton County District Attorney Fanny Willis (C) attends a press conference at Atlanta Police Headquarters following the shooting at North Side Hospital, a medical facility in Atlanta, Georgia, May 3, 2023. (Photo Credit: Megan Verner/Getty Images)
Willis said in April that Trump, as president, called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Ravensperger and asked him to “collect 11,780 votes” to overthrow the then-state. announced that the president could be indicted by the summer. After Biden’s victory was secured in Georgia in the 2020 presidential election, he addressed candidate Joe Biden to the former president.
Willis has yet to formally indict the president, and previously said he would announce a decision on the charges by Sept. 1, according to ABC News.
President Trump is currently embroiled in other legal disputes, including indictments over alleged mishandling of classified documents. In June, after the Federal Bureau of Investigation seized 102 documents from Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, Trump was charged with 37 charges related to the matter, including 31 counts of violating the Espionage Act. indicted.
The Fulton County District Attorney’s Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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