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Breaking News: Judge tosses two criminal counts against Trump, keeps top charge in Georgia election case
CNBC ^ | 9/12/2024 | Dan Managan

Posted on 09/12/2024 1:03:07 PM PDT by Tell It Right

A judge on Thursday dismissed two criminal counts against Donald Trump in his Georgia election interference case, but maintained the top charge and other counts against the former president.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: fultoncounty; georgia; lawfare; nojurisdiction; trump
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1 posted on 09/12/2024 1:03:07 PM PDT by Tell It Right
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To: Tell It Right

Seems like these charges are being slowly released for public outrage control.


2 posted on 09/12/2024 1:08:09 PM PDT by fwdude
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To: Tell It Right

A Georgia judge on Thursday dismissed two criminal counts in the United States’ 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump and one other count against allies of the Republican presidential candidate.

Fulton county judge Scott McAfee found that state prosecutors did not have the authority to bring those charges, which related to the alleged filing of false documents in federal court.

McAfee allowed the remainder of the case to move forward, including eight charges against Trump. Trump and 14 co-defendants have pleaded not guilty to racketeering and other charges stemming from what prosecutors allege was a scheme to overturn Trump’s narrow defeat in Georgia in the 2020 election.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/12/trump-election-interference-georgia


3 posted on 09/12/2024 1:10:07 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: Tell It Right

details here (22 page document):

https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/09/12/three-charges-related-donald-trumps-georgia-indictment-dropped/


4 posted on 09/12/2024 1:12:26 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: Tell It Right

Unconstitutional. Free speech.


5 posted on 09/12/2024 1:13:10 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Clay Bevis and Cuck Butthead are panty wadded, pearl clutching cowards. Rush deserves better.)
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To: Tell It Right

Interfering with their interference is a crime somehow?
Air out all the laundry and see what shakes out.
It has yet to be done. They think that they can bypass their misdeeds and go after those questioning it.
A reckoning is required, messing with the wrong ones.


6 posted on 09/12/2024 1:13:19 PM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count)
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To: fwdude

You mean to maximize the outrage of clueless “undecided” voters, I assume.

The impact of an “October Surprise” is far less than it used to be, what with so much unfettered early/absentee voting going on.

So the puppetmasters have to use their control of the legal apparatus (”lawfare”) and their thorough control of the media to get new Trump-hating adverse developments out sooner these days.

And they must do so constantly, because idiots forget things if they aren’t reinforced 24/7. Which of course is the #1 job of the liberal media.


7 posted on 09/12/2024 1:13:57 PM PDT by PermaRag (Joo Biden is not my President)
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To: Tell It Right

Interfering with their interference is a crime somehow?
Air out all the laundry and see what shakes out.
It has yet to be done. They think that they can bypass their misdeeds and go after those questioning it.
A reckoning is required, messing with the wrong ones.


8 posted on 09/12/2024 1:15:21 PM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count)
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To: Tell It Right

The judges and prosecutors and DAs, have to keep a semblance of misdeeds by Trump and associates, so, they won’t dismiss all parts of the case, because doing so would mean that they actually had no case to begin with. That would mean huge embarrassments for all of them and for the U.S. Justice department, which was/is behind all of these sham cases.


9 posted on 09/12/2024 1:20:25 PM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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To: Brown Deer
So Trump was charged with filing false documents and the judge ruled

Fulton county judge Scott McAfee found that state prosecutors did not have the authority to bring those charges, which related to the alleged filing of false documents in federal court.

So aren’t the lawyers guilty of filing false documents with a court?

10 posted on 09/12/2024 1:28:29 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: Brown Deer
Here's Breitbart's version: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/09/12/judge-dismisses-two-counts-against-trump-in-georgia-fani-willis-lacked-authority/
11 posted on 09/12/2024 1:28:53 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Breitbart's version: Fulton County, Georgia, Judge Scott McAfee dismissed two of the counts against former President Donald Trump in a RICO prosecution there, ruling that District Attorney Fani Willis lacked standing to bring the charges against him.

I'm always suspect of racketeering charges against anybody. IMHO "racketeering" is so vaguely defined that just about anybody can be guilty of it.

12 posted on 09/12/2024 1:32:17 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Brown Deer

Oh, Scott McAfee. I remember that guy, the one who donated to Fani Willis’ campaign.


13 posted on 09/12/2024 1:47:58 PM PDT by rx
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To: Tell It Right

Total of 9 counts have now been removed. 32 counts remain.

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2024-09-12/judge-tosses-some-counts-in-georgia-election-case-against-trump-and-others


14 posted on 09/12/2024 2:17:27 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Brown Deer

Thanks. But I don’t really care what the charges were or are. It’s all BS.


15 posted on 09/12/2024 5:23:21 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

I replied to the poster, not you.


16 posted on 09/12/2024 6:02:13 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: Brown Deer

I figured as much. Just telling the lamp post and whomever else it may concern that I’m not reading it, but thanks for making it available.


17 posted on 09/12/2024 6:07:41 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Tell It Right

Everything against Trump goes bye bye as soon as he’s no longer a threat to them... Or he’s elected president.


18 posted on 09/12/2024 6:10:52 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Eleutheria5

yep, I know it’s nonsense, but original post had nothing, so I looked for more, and was surprised to come across the actual court document that soon.


19 posted on 09/12/2024 7:18:03 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: Brown Deer

Well, thanks. Facts and documents are like six guns in the wild west. You don’t want to take them out, but you need to have them handy.


20 posted on 09/13/2024 1:27:02 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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