A US judge on Wednesday ended the long-running case accusing Donald Trump and his allies of trying to overturn the 2020 election — bringing the curtain down on the final criminal prosecution still shadowing the president’s return to power.
The ruling followed a forceful push from prosecutor Pete Skandalakis, who urged Judge Scott McAfee to shut the Georgia case down, arguing it belonged in federal hands, not state courts.
He called the case an “Illegal, Unconstitutional, and unAmerican Hoax” — although several codefendants were convicted — and said it should have “never been brought” in a lengthy statement that repeated his false claims that the election was rigged.