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Many Americans are anxiously wondering if President Donald Trump’s Georgia-based election interference case spearheaded by embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will go to trial before the rapidly approaching November general election.
Currently, President Trump is in the middle of a criminal trial in Manhattan, which has served to seemingly do little more than remove him from the 2024 presidential election campaign trail. He is also facing a litany of charges across several federal cases, including the Florida-based “classified documents” case, which was just postponed indefinitely by presiding Judge Aileen Cannon in a big win for Trump.
Trump also was hit with charges related to alleged “election interference” in Georgia last year, although the district attorney has seemed to do a good job of trashing her own case against the president, thanks to the murky affair she carried on with the top prosecutor that she hired to go after Trump.
The affair and subsequent allegations of impropriety resulted in a hearing in early 2024 considering a motion to disqualify her from the case. Ultimately, Judge Scott McAfee decided that DA Willis would be allowed to remain on the case as long as her former lover and top prosecutor, Nathan Wade, exited.
Now, President Trump and several co-defendants in the Peach State have asked the Georgia Court of Appeals to disqualify Willis from overseeing the case, after presiding Judge Scott McAfee ruled that his decision on the matter could be appealed, per RSBN.
According to Fox News, former Assistant U.S. Attorney in Atlanta John Malcolm has stated that there was no chance the case would come to trial before Election Day 2024.
He told the outlet, “Although the odds of the Georgia case coming to trial quickly were never very good, now that the Georgia Court of Appeals has agreed to consider the recusal issue, there is not a chance the Georgia case is going to go to trial before the November election.”
President Trump is also waiting on the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the issue of presidential immunity for civil liability, which would effectively take the teeth out of most of these charges that have been brought against him upon a potential ruling protecting the Executive Office from post-service prosecution.