Fulton County criminal case against Donald Trump remains mostly intact after Judge McAfee ruling
This morning Judge McAfee ruled that six of the Fulton County criminal charges against Donald Trump and other defendants weren’t worded specifically enough, and set them aside. This set off quite a round of doomsday hysteria on TV and Twitter.
But here are the facts: the main RICO part of the case (against Trump and others) remains intact. In spite of some misleading narratives, Trump’s phone call to Brad Raffensperger is remaining part of the case under the RICO charges. And while McAfee did set aside six charges, he stated that they can be refiled if they’re worded differently.
So what actually went wrong in the Fulton County case this morning? Nothing, really. All that noise you’re hearing on TV right now is just… noise. Of course the important ruling today will be whether Fani Willis is disqualified from the case. We’re still waiting on that. But given that the judge just allowed the key components of Willis’ case to stand, it doesn’t look like he’s planning to remove her. We’ll see. But so far there hasn’t been any bad news out of Fulton County today.
