The saga of the Georgia state racketeering case that Fani Willis started has officially come to its ignoble end.

Our discerning readers will remember that this story began with that infamous phone call from President Trump to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger after the 2020 election, when the Trump team was insisting that every vote had to be counted. Yes, Trump lost the election. Yes, he was – and still is – in denial that that happened. Yes, most of Trump’s problems stem back to him being a sore loser (even if he had cause to complain).

The case against Trump in Georgia, though, was built up in the media and by the Democrats. The case had issues from the start, from a grand jury forewoman who happily gave national interviews, to the grand jury suggesting that everyone involved in the Trump campaign could be charged. And the media lapped it up. They wanted the mugshot SO badly. Well, they got the mugshot, and they got plea deals from some of the defendants, and in their minds, it was only a matter of time before Georgia would “get” Trump.

And then Fani Willis, in her own arrogance and stupidity, blew up her case by hiring her lover, Nathan Wade, to prosecute the case – even though he wasn’t a prosecutor – and paid him very, very well. And then took vacations paid on his dime. And then insisted that any allegations against her were just racism, or Wade’s ex-wife’s fault. And when the defense teams filed motions over the conflict of interest, neither Wade nor Willis did themselves any favors. Eventually, Judge Scott McAfee told them that one of them would have to get off the case. Wade left, but the defense objected to Willis staying on the case. In December 2024, the Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that Fani Willis could not continue as prosecutor. She appealed, and this last September, the Georgia Supreme Court refused to hear her case. Fani Willis is still Fulton County’s district attorney, but she could not continue the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and the other defendants.

However, removing Willis from the case didn’t mean the case was legally done, as was noted at the time of the Georgia Supreme Court ruling. All that had to happen was to give the case a new prosecutor.

The (Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia)’s executive director, Pete Skandalakis, said Tuesday he will begin searching for a new prosecutor to replace Willis but didn’t know how long that might take. He said once a new prosecutor is appointed it will be “up to him or her what to do with the case.”

That person could continue on the track Willis had taken, pursue only some charges, or dismiss the case altogether. Finding a prosecutor willing to handle it could be difficult, given its complexity and the resources required.

Even if a new prosecutor tries to follow Willis’ path, it seems unlikely Trump could be prosecuted now that he is the sitting president. But 14 other defendants still face charges.

Well, apparently absolutely no other prosecutor in Georgia wanted the job. So Pete Skandalakis ended up taking the case himself.

Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia Executive Director Peter J. Skandalakis announced Friday he’d appointed himself to replace Willis because of his “inability to secure another conflict prosecutor.”

“Several prosecutors were contacted and, while all were respectful and professional, each declined the appointment,” said Skandalakis — who had been tasked with finding someone else to take the case.

He did not name those who passed on the offer or explain why they did so, citing “respect for their privacy and professional discretion.”

Skandalakis said he could have let a Friday deadline lapse for resuming the prosecution, risking the case’s dismissal, but “I did not believe that to be the right course of action.

“The public has a legitimate interest in the outcome of this case,” he added. “Accordingly, it is important that someone make an informed and transparent determination about how best to proceed.”

The prosecutor added that on Oct. 29, the Fulton County District Attorney’s office gave him 101 banker boxes of documents. Those were followed on Nov. 6 by an eight-terabyte hard drive of additional investigative materials.

And today, he ended it.

A Georgia prosecutor on Wednesday officially dropped the historic racketeering case against President Donald Trump and others for attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election, closing the chapter in a legal effort once seen as a grave threat to Trump’s political future.

The move means that Trump has dodged criminal legal jeopardy for his attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden. The federal cases against Trump from special counsel Jack Smith on election interference leading up to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot and on mishandling classified documents were previously dropped.

“Given the complexity of the legal issues at hand — ranging from constitutional questions and the Supremacy Clause to immunity, jurisdiction, venue, speedy-trial concerns, and access to federal records — and even assuming each of these issues were resolved in the State’s favor, bringing this case before a jury in 2029, 2030, or even 2031 would be nothing short of a remarkable feat,” Peter Skandalakis, the prosecutor on the case, wrote Wednesday.

Skandalakis said that he considered severing Trump’s case from his codefendants to attempt to try them first while waiting for the conclusion of Trump’s second term. However, he said, doing so “would be both illogical and unduly burdensome and costly for the State and for Fulton County.”

He added: “In my professional judgment, the citizens of Georgia are not served by pursuing this case in full for another five to ten years.”

Those who saw the dismissal of charges coming, like Professor Jonathan Turley, said this was the only possible choice left to make.

…As expected, once a competent prosecutor without a political agenda reviewed the case, it collapsed. Some of us have ridiculed the racketeering case as legal and factually incomprehensible…

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) November 26, 2025

…Of course, the people of Fulton County are out millions, the staff wasted badly needed personnel, and courts expended scarce resources. None of that matters. Willis knew she could commit any violation and spend any amount in the holiest of crusades for the left: Get Trump.

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) November 26, 2025

The Trump team cheered the decision.

Trump’s criminal defense lawyer, Steve Sadow, lauded the decision from Skandalakis, whom he called “a fair and impartial prosecutor.”

“The political persecution of President Trump by disqualified DA Fani Willis is finally over,” Sadow said. “This case should never have been brought. A fair and impartial prosecutor has put an end to this lawfare.”

One is left to ponder an alternative universe in which Fani Willis made better choices, ranging from not charging multiple people for the mere temerity of being in the Trump administration, to not picking her actual boyfriend to try the case, to not melting down on the witness stand. We might be having a completely different conversation today. But President Trump is extraordinarily fortunate that his opponents always seem to overstep in their overwhelming desire to “get” him. Is the lawfare against Donald Trump now over and done? One can only hope so.

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