THE PROSECUTOR HANDLING THE GEORGIA ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE AGAINST PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND OTHERS SAID IN A COURT FILING WEDNESDAY THAT HE HAS DECIDED NOT TO PURSUE IT FURTHER.

PETE SKANDALAKIS TOOK OVER THE CASE LAST MONTH FROM FULTON COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY FANI WILLIS, WHO WAS REMOVED OVER AN “APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY” CREATED BY A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR SHE CHOSE TO LEAD THE CASE.

THE CASE BEGAN NEARLY FIVE YEARS AGO, WHEN WILLIS MADE PUBLIC HER INTENT TO INVESTIGATE WHETHER ILLEGAL ATTEMPTS WERE MADE TO INFLUENCE THE STATE’S 2020 ELECTIONS.

THAT INCLUDED A JANUARY 2, 2021, PHONE CALL IN WHICH TRUMP WAS RECORDED URGING GEORGIA’S SECRETARY OF STATE TO HELP FIND THE VOTES NEEDED TO OVERTURN HIS DEFEAT IN THE CRITICAL SWING STATE.

LEGAL ACTION AGAINST TRUMP WAS UNLIKELY TO PROCEED WHILE HE IS PRESIDENT.

HOWEVER, 14 OTHER DEFENDANTS, INCLUDING RUDY GIULIANI AND MARK MEADOWS, STILL FACED CHARGES.

THE ABANDONMENT OF THE GEORGIA CASE CLOSES A CHAPTER IN A LEGAL EFFORT ONCE SEEN AS A GRAVE THREAT TO TRUMP’S POLITICAL FUTURE.

THE FEDERAL CASES FROM SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITH ON ELECTION INTERFERENCE LEADING UP TO THE JANUARY 6, 2021, US CAPITOL RIOT AND ON MISHANDLING CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS WERE ALSO PREVIOUSLY DROPPED.