Georgia judge trims Trump’s election case, but RICO charge stays
A Fulton County judge dismissed six counts in the Georgia election-interference indictment on March 13, including three against Donald Trump, but left the racketeering charge in place.
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A Fulton County judge knocked out six counts in the election-interference indictment, but the racketeering case against Trump and his allies remains very much on the board. That is not a win so much as a narrower road to the same courthouse.
March 13, 2024 delivered another day of Trump-world legal damage, with a Georgia judge dismissing six counts from the Fulton County election-interference indictment while leaving the core racketeering case intact. The ruling was not the exoneration Trump allies wanted to brag about, and it landed amid a campaign narrative already soaked in criminal exposure, delay tactics, and courtroom survival mode.
The day’s message for Trump was simple: the calendar keeps moving, the cases keep surviving, and the legal weeds are still thick enough to trip a campaign that wants to act as if all this is just background noise.
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A Fulton County judge dismissed six counts in the Georgia election-interference indictment on March 13, including three against Donald Trump, but left the racketeering charge in place.