US Court Dismisses Six Criminal Charges Of Georgia Election Racketeering Brought Against Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

36% : While dismissing the charges against Trump and other defendants, the court said the prosecutors' allegations that they tried to get officials to violate their oaths were not detailed enough, according to the court filing.
36% : While dismissing the charges against Trump and other defendants, the court said the prosecutors' allegations that they tried to get officials to violate their oaths were not detailed enough, according to the court filing.
33% : The indictment did not specify in sufficient detail how Trump and his co-defendants could have urged officials to violate their oaths of office or their respective duties under the U.S. or Georgia state constitutions, McAfee found.
30% : Two of the six charges McAfee dismissed relate to a January 2021 phone call when Trump pressed Georgia's top election official, Brad Raffensperger, to "find" votes to reverse his defeat in the state.
26% : The central racketeering charge against Trump and his remaining 14 co-defendants remains in place.
24% : Trump has denied wrongdoing in all four cases and has said they are all attempts to stop him from regaining the presidency.
24% : "The entire prosecution of President Trump is political, constitutes election interference, and should be dismissed," Sadow said in a statement.
20% : According to Reuters, the judge left 35 other criminal counts intact, including 10 against Trump, who is the Republican candidate challenging Democratic President Joe Biden in the November 5 U.S. election.
8% : The Georgia case is one of four criminal prosecutions Trump is facing as he tries to unseat Biden.
6% : Trump and his co-defendants have pleaded not guilty to charges that they formed a criminal conspiracy to seek to overturn Trump's loss to Biden in Georgia in the 2020 election.
4% : Lawyers for Trump and five allies, including former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, challenged allegations that they attempted to get Georgia lawmakers to violate their oaths of office by convincing them to appoint fraudulent slates of pro-Trump electors.

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