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1 verified report published on September 12, 2023.
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For a newsroom edition built around screwups, September 12 was less about a dramatic courtroom blow-up than about accumulating bad optics: the legal team on offense, the prosecutors on cleanup, and Trump still standing at the center of a sprawling anti-racketeering case. The day’s theme was simple: the Georgia mess was getting harder to spin as anything other than a criminal-cloud problem with no easy exit ramp. ([cnbc.com](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/12/trump-files-motions-to-dismiss-charges-in-georgia-election-case.html?utm_source=openai))
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Donald Trump’s lawyers asked a judge to throw out parts of the Fulton County election-interference indictment, while prosecutors renewed their request to try Trump and the other defendants together. The filing did not change the status of the case, which was already underway after the Aug. 14 indictment of Trump and 18 others.