Atlanta, Georgia – The high-profile election interference case against former President Donald Trump in Fulton County, Georgia, has been dismissed in its entirety. Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee issued the order on Wednesday, November 26, 2025, following a request from special prosecutor Peter Skandalakis to drop the charges. This decision marks the end of the last remaining criminal case against Trump related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
The case originated from allegations of a wide-ranging conspiracy to unlawfully alter Georgia's 2020 election outcome, notably including a January 2021 phone call where Trump urged Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" enough votes to reverse his loss. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis initially brought racketeering charges against Trump and 18 co-defendants in August 2023.
Special prosecutor Peter Skandalakis, who took over the case after Willis was disqualified, cited several reasons for seeking the dismissal. He argued that pursuing the case would take "five to ten years" and that the "strongest and most prosecutable case" against those seeking to overturn the election was at the federal level. Skandalakis also noted that the alleged criminal conduct was "conceived in Washington, D.C., not the State of Georgia."
The dismissal was met with strong reactions from Trump and his allies. Ann Coulter, a conservative commentator, stated in a tweet that "The nonsense Georgia case against Trump, turning normal politicking into a crime, has been dismissed by a court. Good job, liberals." Trump's lead Georgia attorney, Steve Sadow, declared that the "political persecution of President Trump by disqualified DA Fani Willis is finally over."
This dismissal follows the dropping of federal election interference charges against Trump by special counsel Jack Smith after Trump's re-election in 2024, citing policy against prosecuting a sitting president. The Georgia case had been widely considered the most significant of Trump's criminal indictments, as state-level charges are not subject to presidential pardon.