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Backfilled for September 12, 2023, this edition centers on the Fulton County case, where Trump’s team kept trying to shrink, split, or escape the racketeering prosecution while prosecutors pushed for the opposite: one giant trial, same evidence, same embarrassment.
On September 12, 2023, Trump-world’s biggest screwup was in Georgia, where the Fulton County election-interference case kept tightening around the former president and his allies. His lawyers filed motions to dismiss or narrow the charges while prosecutors argued for one trial against Trump and all 18 co-defendants, underscoring how hard it was becoming for the defense to separate Trump from the broader scheme. The result was not a clean win or loss on that date, but a fresh reminder that the case was not going away, and that the defense’s procedural games were only delaying the inevitable glare of a very public trial. ([cnbc.com](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/12/trump-files-motions-to-dismiss-charges-in-georgia-election-case.html?utm_source=openai))
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.