Georgia Drops Trump Election Case

Georgia Drops Trump Election Case

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November 26, 2025 · 28 min · Season 1 · Episode 12

About this episode

The episode discusses the dismissal of the Georgia election interference case against Trump and the implications of the legal strategies involved.

In this episode, we walk through the abrupt and stunning end of the Georgia election interference case — the prosecution that many legal experts once saw as the strongest and most durable criminal threat to President Trump over 2020.The hosts start with Judge Scott McAfee’s brief but decisive order on November 26, 2025, dismissing the entire Georgia RICO case against Trump and his remaining co-defendants. From there, they rewind to the sweeping 2023 indictment, the use of Georgia’s racketeering law, the infamous Raffensperger “find 11,780 votes” call, the fake electors scheme, and the Coffey County voting machine breach. They unpack why prosecutors tried to frame all of this as a single “criminal enterprise” — and why that strategy was always controversial.Then the episode shifts into the procedural unraveling: the romantic relationship between DA Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade, the bruising disqualification fight, and the Court of Appeals’ ruling that the “appearance of impropriety” alone was enough to remove Willis and her entire office. When no one else in Georgia wanted to inherit the case, Pete Skandalakis stepped in, only to conclude that the whole…

Topics covered

  • Georgia election case
  • Trump prosecution
  • legal strategy
  • RICO law
  • political commentary
  • court rulings

Keywords

  • Trump
  • Georgia
  • RICO
  • election interference
  • legal case
  • court ruling
  • Fani Willis
  • Nathan Wade
  • Pete Skandalakis

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Organizations: Georgia, Jack Smith

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