In a move that has to have Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis rending her hair and gnashing her teeth, Georgia Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee has quashed three counts the prosecutor’s office filed against former President Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the alleged election interference case.
Judge Scott McAfee granted a motion from some of Trump’s co-defendants to quash three counts in the sprawling racketeering indictment brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D), finding they “lie beyond this State’s jurisdiction.”
The ruling also hands the former president a sizeable victory, as he faced two of the charges in question.
“President Trump and his legal team in Georgia have prevailed once again,” Steve Sadow, Trump’s lead defense attorney in the case, said in a statement.
The former president and a slew of his allies are accused of…
