The criminal proceedings against Donald Trump and his fourteen co-defendants for illegal attempts to reverse the results of the 2020 US presidential election were suspended by the Court of Appeal of the State of Georgia on Wednesday June 5. This suspension must remain in effect until the court has ruled on the defendants’ request for withdrawal from the prosecutor. This decision de facto postpones the holding of a trial in this case until next year, for which no date had yet been set.
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The judge at this trial, Scott McAfee, rejected in March the request for dismissal from the prosecutor, Fani Willis, but demanded a reorganization of his team. The defendants appealed and the state appeals court set a hearing on the case for October 4, with a decision not expected until 2025.
Justice McAfee concluded that there was insufficient evidence of a ” conflict of interest “ linked to the prosecutor’s intimate relationship with an investigator she had hired in this case, Nathan Wade. But, relating “an appearance of inappropriate behavior” and denouncing a “huge lack of judgment” on the part of the prosecutor, the magistrate had demanded the withdrawal of the file, either from Fani Willis and his entire team, or from Nathan Wade. The latter presented his resignation a few hours later.
Four criminal proceedings
Targeted by four separate criminal proceedings, the ex-president and Republican candidate in the November 2024 election facing his Democratic successor is striving through his multiple appeals to go to trial as late as possible, and in any case after the election .
The New York court found him guilty on May 30 of accounting falsifications intended to hide a payment of $130,000 in order to avoid a sex scandal at the very end of his 2016 presidential campaign – an unprecedented verdict for a former American president. His sentence will be pronounced on July 11.
Donald Trump’s three other criminal trials, the one before the Georgia courts and two at the federal level, however, risk not being able to be held before the vote.
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