The Daily Fuckup

A claim circulating in August 2023 said Fulton County had bungled the Trump indictment by leaving grand jurors’ names visible. That is not what happened. The indictment was returned on August 14, 2023, and the filing included the jurors’ names as part of Georgia’s usual indictment format. ([washingtonpost.com](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/08/15/fulton-county-jurors-names-public-threats-trump/?utm_source=openai))

The page that drew the online uproar was not a stray draft or an accidental leak of private information. It was the public indictment itself, filed in open court and carrying the grand jurors’ names on its face. Reporting at the time noted that the names appeared on page 9 of the 98-page document. ([washingtonpost.com](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/08/15/fulton-county-jurors-names-public-threats-trump/?utm_source=openai))

The confusion mattered because it quickly turned into a threat story. By August 17 and 18, 2023, authorities were already investigating threats aimed at jurors who voted in the case, and officials said juror personal information had been shared online. The public noise did not change the underlying point: the indictment followed Georgia practice, and the names were included by design. ([apnews.com](https://apnews.com/article/b489aea1bf8210224d1500895830528d?utm_source=openai))

So the correction is simple. Fulton County did not fail to redact grand jurors’ names in the Trump indictment. The August 14 filing listed them the way Georgia indictments commonly do, and the later social media claim rested on a false premise. ([washingtonpost.com](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/08/15/fulton-county-jurors-names-public-threats-trump/?utm_source=openai))