On Jan. 2, 2021, former President Donald Trump requested Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “discover” the votes wanted to win the state within the 2020 election.
The now-infamous cellphone name helped spark a felony investigation launched the next month by Fulton County District Legal professional Fani Willis trying into the efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election.
This is a have a look at how the probe — one in all a number of investigations involving the previous president — has unfolded up to now.
Former President Donald Trump sits on the protection desk together with his authorized workforce in a Manhattan courtroom, April 4, 2023, in New York.
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Nov. 3, 2020
Voters head to the polls within the 2020 basic election.
Nov. 7, 2020
A number of media organizations, together with ABC Information, name the election for Joe Biden based mostly on the projected electoral vote rely, as a number of states, together with Georgia, have but to be projected.
Nov. 10, 2020
The Trump marketing campaign requests a hand recount in Georgia, the place Biden leads by about 14,000 votes out of almost 5 million forged within the presidential race.
Nov. 11, 2020
Raffensperger, a Republican, declares that because of how slim the vote margin is between Biden and Trump, the state’s deliberate audit will set off a “full by-hand recount in every county” of the presidential race.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger attends the Nationwide Affiliation of Secretaries of State winter assembly, Feb. 16, 2023, in Washington.
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Nov. 19, 2020
The outcomes of Georgia’s statewide audit, which entailed that counties recount by hand each vote forged within the presidential race, reaffirm Biden because the winner — by a margin of 12,284 votes. It is the primary time since 1992 {that a} Democrat will win the state.
Nov. 20, 2020
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Raffensperger certify the outcomes of the final election, making it official that Biden received the state’s 16 electoral votes.
Nov. 24, 2020
Georgia’s 159 counties begin counting the votes forged within the presidential race for a 3rd time, after the Trump marketing campaign requests a machine recount.
Dec. 6, 2020
Raffensperger defends the integrity of the final election, telling ABC Information Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos throughout an interview on “This Week” that his workplace has but to seek out proof supporting “systemic fraud” that might change the result.
Dec. 7, 2020
Raffensperger and Kemp recertify the state’s election outcomes after a recount requested by Trump confirms as soon as once more that Biden received the state. The audit discovered that Biden received by a margin of 11,779 votes.
Dec. 22, 2020
Mark Meadows, the White Home chief of workers on the time, visits Georgia’s Cobb County to watch a signature match audit.
Dec. 23, 2020
Amid the signature match audit in Cobb County, Trump telephones a chief investigator in Raffensperger’s workplace to debate the audit, telling the investigator they’d be praised for locating errors within the vote rely, in response to a person conversant in the decision.
Jan. 2, 2021
In an hourlong cellphone name obtained by ABC Information, Trump calls Raffensperger and falsely claims that it was “not potential” for him to have misplaced and asks the secretary to “discover 11,780 votes” — the precise quantity Trump wanted to win Georgia.
“The folks of Georgia are indignant. The folks of the nation are indignant, and there is nothing incorrect with saying that, you already know, that you’ve got recalculated,” Trump says on the decision. “All I need to do is that this: I simply need to discover 11,780 votes, which is yet one more than we’ve got. … Fellas, I would like 11,000 votes, give me a break.”
Meadows was additionally heard talking on the decision.
Raffensperger challenged the president’s allegations, saying the info Trump is citing about tens of 1000’s of unlawful votes “is incorrect.”
Feb. 10, 2021
Fulton County District Legal professional Fani Willis notifies Kemp that her workplace has launched an investigation into efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election, in response to a letter obtained by ABC Information.
The letter requested state officers to protect any paperwork doubtlessly associated to the 2020 basic election, “with explicit care given to put aside and protect these that could be proof of makes an attempt to affect the actions of individuals who had been administering” it, which would come with Trump’s cellphone name with Raffensperger.
Fulton County District Legal professional Fani Willis speaks at a information convention in Atlanta, Could 11, 2021.
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Jan. 20, 2022
Willis requests to seat a particular grand jury in her probe, in response to a letter obtained by ABC Information. Within the letter to Fulton County Chief Choose Christopher Brasher, Willis wrote that the transfer is required as a result of “a major variety of witnesses and potential witnesses have refused to cooperate with the investigation absent a subpoena requiring their testimony.”
Could 2, 2022
Twenty-six jurors are chosen for a particular grand jury in Willis’ investigation.
The particular grand jury doesn’t have the flexibility to return an indictment and might solely make suggestions regarding felony prosecution. Ought to prices be really useful, it will then be as much as Willis to find out whether or not or to not pursue them.
July 19, 2022
New courtroom paperwork reveal that 16 folks recognized as “faux electors” have been notified that they’re targets of the Fulton County district lawyer’s felony investigation, new courtroom paperwork reveal.
Aug. 15, 2022
Trump’s private lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, is knowledgeable he’s thought of a “goal” of the Fulton County district lawyer’s probe, in response to sources conversant in the matter. Amongst his efforts to overturn the state’s election outcomes, Giuliani appeared throughout a December 2020 hearing before state lawmakers at which he introduced since-debunked allegations that ballot staff had suitcases containing illegitimate ballots.
Nov. 1, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Courtroom rejects Sen. Lindsey Graham bid to dam a subpoena for testimony earlier than the particular grand jury. Graham, within the aftermath of the 2020 election, referred to as Georgia election officers to debate the election.
Nov. 8, 2022
Voters head to the polls in Georgia for a main election the place Raffensperger is up for reelection for his secretary of state seat. Trump helps Rep. Jody Hice within the main.
Nov. 18, 2022
A hand rely of random batches of votes confirms Raffensperger has received reelection, state election officers announce.
Jan. 9, 2023
A brand new submitting signifies that the particular grand jury has completed its work and submitted its closing report following months of closed-door testimony.
The jurors heard testimony from a few of Trump’s closest allies and supporters, together with legal professionals Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman, and Sen. Graham.
Jan. 24, 2023
Willis says throughout a listening to that charging selections within the case are “imminent.”
Feb. 13, 2023
Fulton County Choose Robert McBurney guidelines that parts of the particular grand jury’s report will be launched within the coming days, although nearly all of the report will stay sealed. Willis had argued for the report to stay sealed, saying that it was vital to “be aware of defending future defendants’ rights.”
Feb. 16, 2023
Excerpts from the particular grand jury’s report are launched, revealing that the jury has really useful to prosecutors that they search indictments towards witnesses who they consider could have lied throughout their testimony.
“A majority of the grand jury believes that perjury could have been dedicated by a number of witnesses testifying earlier than it,” the grand jury wrote within the report. “The Grand Jury recommends that the District Legal professional search acceptable indictments for such crimes the place the proof is compelling.”
The excerpts from the report don’t record any names of those that grand jury members consider could have dedicated perjury nor supply any rationale for its allegations of perjury.
There are additionally no particulars revealed concerning whether or not or not the grand jury really useful prices for anybody associated to efforts to overturn the election. The excerpts don’t establish any of the 75 witnesses interviewed and don’t point out Trump by identify.
Following their launch, a spokesperson for Trump mentioned the excerpts “don’t have anything to do with the President as a result of President Trump did completely nothing incorrect.”
“The President participated in two excellent cellphone calls concerning election integrity in Georgia, which he’s entitled to do — actually, as President, it was President Trump’s Constitutional responsibility to make sure election security, safety, and integrity,” the spokesperson mentioned.
Feb. 21, 2023
In a sequence of print and tv interviews, Emily Kohrs, the foreperson of the particular grand jury, reveals that jurors really useful prices for a number of people, with out naming any of them — and intimated that the previous president is amongst them.
“You are not going to be shocked,” Kohrs told The New York Times about whether or not her panel really useful prices towards Trump. “It isn’t rocket science.”
March 20, 2023
Trump’s attorneys file motions in Fulton County Superior Courtroom and with the Georgia Supreme Courtroom in search of to throw out the particular grand jury report and take away the district lawyer’s workplace main the investigation.
April 24, 2023
Willis signifies her workplace will announce any charging selections someday between July 11 and Sept. 1, 2023, in a letter to regulation enforcement.
Could 5, 2023
Eight of the “faux electors” settle for immunity within the Fulton County district lawyer’s probe into the matter, in response to their lawyer.
District Legal professional Fani Willis is proven inside her workplace chambers within the Fulton County Justice Middle Tower, Sept. 20, 2022, in Atlanta.
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July 11, 2023
Willis empanels a brand new grand jury that would finally resolve whether or not to approve prices towards Trump.
July 17, 2023
The Georgia Supreme Courtroom denies the request by Trump to quash the findings of the particular grand jury and take away Willis from the probe.
July 29, 2023
Senior Superior Courtroom Choose Stephen Schuster, responding to a 3rd movement filed by Trump in search of to disqualify Willis from the election probe, schedules a listening to for Aug. 10. The movement had been filed on July 20, after the Georgia Supreme Courtroom denied an analogous request.
July 31, 2023
Choose McBurney denies the movement filed with Fulton County Superior Courtroom by Trump’s authorized workforce in search of to disqualify Willis and quash the findings of a particular grand jury convened to evaluation proof within the matter.
Willis, in the meantime, indicators that an indictment of the previous president might be imminent, telling an area information outlet, “We have been working for 2 and a half years — we’re able to go.”
Aug. 4, 2023
Trump’s attorneys file a discover of attraction, signaling their intent to attraction to the Georgia Supreme Courtroom Choose McBurney’s ruling denying Trump’s movement to take away Willis from the probe and quash the particular grand jury’s report.
The submitting comes a day after Trump drops his different remaining movement in search of to have Willis faraway from the case.
Aug. 8, 2023
Sources inform ABC Information that Willis is prone to go earlier than the grand jury the next week to current her case so the panel can weigh potential prices.
Within the meantime, following a day of dueling motions from the particular counsel’s workplace and Trump’s authorized workforce concerning a proposed protecting order within the case, Choose Chutkan schedules a listening to on the matter for Friday, Aug. 11.
Aug. 9, 2023
ABC Information reviews {that a} newly revealed memo from Dec. 6, 2020, particulars a plan by Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro to pursue slates of supposedly “alternate” electors as a way to forestall Biden from amassing 270 electoral votes.
Prosecutors say Chesebro was working with the Trump authorized workforce to seek out methods to problem the result of the election as a way to hold Trump in workplace.
Aug. 10, 2023
Willis, responding to a current attack ad from Trump, points an inner memo to her workers urging them to not reply and telling them that “That is enterprise, it should by no means be private,” in response to a duplicate of the memo obtained by ABC Information.
“Now we have no private emotions towards these we examine or prosecute and we should always not specific any,” Willis writes.
Aug. 12, 2023
Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan and journalist George Chidi, who had been beforehand subpoenaed within the probe, are referred to as to look early the next week earlier than the grand jury within the case, as Willis is anticipated to being presenting the case to the panel to allow them to weigh potential prices.
Duncan, a Republican, has been a vocal critic of Trump and efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election outcomes. Democratic Georgia state Sen. Jen Jordan can be subpoenaed to look earlier than the grand jury, her spokesperson tells ABC Information.
Aug. 14, 2023
Trump and 18 others are charged by Willis in a sweeping racketeering indictment over their efforts to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. The indictment alleges they solicited state leaders all through the nation, harassed and misled a Georgia election employee, and pushed phony claims that the election was stolen, all in an effort for Trump to stay in energy regardless of his election loss.
Amongst these indicted within the alleged scheme are a few of Trump’s closet advisers from his time as president, together with his former chief of workers Mark Meadows and his one-time private lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
Trump’s marketing campaign calls the indictment “un-American and incorrect.” The previous president says that his actions weren’t unlawful and that the investigation is politically motivated.
Aug. 22, 2023
Fulton County Superior Courtroom Choose Scott McAfee, as a part of the bond preparations for the 19 defendants within the Georgia case, units Trump’s bail at $200,000.
Per Georgia regulation, the bond will be paid via money, a business surety, or a courtroom program that requires a cost of 10% of the bond quantity.
Aug. 24, 2023
Trump and the 18 different defendants within the DA’s case give up to authorities on the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta. Trump and 17 different defendants are processed and launched on bail, with one defendant being held with out bond.
After Trump is launched on a $200,000 bond, the Fulton County Sheriff’s Workplace releases his mug shot — the primary one ever taken of a former U.S. president. Though Trump has been indicted in three different felony instances, it’s the first time a jurisdiction has required a mug shot be taken of the previous president.
Former President Donald Trump is proven in a reserving picture launched by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Fulton County Sheriff’s Workplace
4 defendants — former Trump Chief of Employees Mark Meadows, former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, former Georgia GOP chair David Shafer and not too long ago elected Georgia state Sen. Shawn Nonetheless — file motions in search of to have their instances moved from Georgia state courtroom into federal courtroom.
Legal professional Kenneth Chesebro information a movement for a speedy trial, prompting DA Willis to request a trial begin date of Oct. 23, 2023, for all 19 defendants — main Choose McAfee to schedule an Oct. 23 trial date for Chesebro solely.
Aug. 28, 2023
Mark Meadows, in search of to have his case moved from Georgia state courtroom into federal courtroom, testifies about his election-related actions in a listening to earlier than U.S. District Choose Steve Jones. Meadows’ attorneys argue that his case must be tried in federal courtroom as a result of Meadows’ actions had been all carried out “beneath coloration” of his function as chief of workers, whereas prosecutors contend that his actions had been political in nature and never a part of his official duties.
Choose McAfee, in the meantime, units the date of Sept. 6 for Trump and his 18 co-defendants to be arraigned on prices.
Aug. 29, 2023
Willis, in a submitting, asks Choose McAfee for clarification on whether or not the Oct. 23 trial date he set for Cheseboro means that he’s severing Chesebro’s case from the opposite 18 defendants — reiterating to the choose that her desire is to attempt all 19 defendants collectively.
The submitting comes as defendants Ray Smith III, Sidney Powell and Trevian Kutti waive their formal arraignment and enter a plea of not responsible to all prices, as a way to be excused from showing at their scheduled arraignments on Sept. 6.
In a separate submitting, Kenneth Chesebro asks Choose McAfee to unseal lots of the underlying information within the case, together with the particular grand jury report that really useful prices, the transcripts of testimony heard by the panel, and any recordings of the proceedings.
Aug. 30, 2023
Trump’s attorneys, citing the correct to a good trial and due course of, file a movement opposing Willis’ request that every one 19 defendants be tried collectively.
The submitting comes as Harrison Floyd — the one one of many 19 defendants to be held in a single day after surrendering to authorities the earlier week — is launched from the Fulton County Jail, in response to the inmate database.
Aug. 31, 2023
Trump enters a plea of not responsible so he doesn’t have to look at his scheduled arraignment on Sept. 6, then information a movement to sever his case from different defendants who’ve requested a speedy trial.
Sept. 6, 2023
Choose McAfee units an Oct. 23 trial date for defendants Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, however holds off on figuring out what might be carried out with the opposite 17 defendants, together with Trump. McAfee says he is “very skeptical” of Willis’ plan to attempt all 19 co-defendants collectively, however tells prosecutors, “I am keen to listen to what it’s important to say on it.”
By the tip of the day, all 19 defendants within the case have pleaded not responsible to the costs towards them.
Sept. 7, 2023
Attorneys for Trump notify a Georgia state courtroom in Fulton County that they could search to take away his election interference case to federal courtroom.
Sept. 8, 2023
The general public launch of the total report issued in February by the particular objective grand jury that aided within the DA’s preliminary election investigation reveals that Sen. Lindsey Graham and two different senators had been amongst people who the panel really useful for prices — although not one of the three had been finally charged within the case. In whole, the particular objective grand jury really useful prices towards 39 people, 19 of whom ended up being charged by the DA.
In the meantime, a federal choose in Georgia denies Meadows’ bid to take away his case from Georgia state courtroom into federal courtroom.
Sept. 11, 2023
Meadows information an emergency movement asking the choose to remain his order rejecting Meadows’ request to maneuver his case, pending the appeals course of.
Rudy Giuliani, in the meantime, information a movement in search of to sever his case, making him the most recent defendant in search of to separate himself from defendants Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, who’re set to face trial on Oct. 23.
Sept. 12, 2023
Legal professionals for Chesebro file a movement to dismiss the costs towards him, arguing that his actions had been “justified” as a result of he was performing “inside his capability as a lawyer” for the Trump marketing campaign.
Sept. 13, 2023
An appeals courtroom schedules oral arguments for later within the week on an emergency movement filed by Meadows, which seeks to pause a decrease courtroom’s ruling that denied his effort to maneuver his case to federal courtroom, pending attraction. The courtroom additionally grants Meadows’ separate request for an expedited attraction, and units an preliminary briefing schedule on the matter.
Sept. 14, 2023
In a blow to prosecutors, Choose McAfee severs the case, ordering that 17 defendants — together with Trump — is not going to be tried alongside speedy trial defendants Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell on Oct. 23.
Prosecutors, within the meantime, comply with confide in the protection the identities of the 30 unindicted co-conspirators referenced of their indictment, as requested by Chesebro.
Sept. 18, 2023
An lawyer for former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark argues that his case must be eliminated to federal courtroom as a result of Clark’s drafting a letter to ship to Georgia officers claiming there was proof of voter fraud would have been “inconceivable” if he wasn’t performing beneath the colour of his federal workplace. Prosecutors rebuff that argument, saying Clark’s workplace solely had restricted authority over election fraud issues.
Sept. 20, 2023
Choose Steve Jones hears arguments from so-called “alternate electors” David Shafer, Shawn Nonetheless and Cathy Latham as to why their instances must be eliminated to federal courtroom.
Later within the day, the DA reveals in a courtroom submitting that pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wooden might be among the many prosecution witnesses within the case.
Sept. 21, 2023
A number of high-level Trump allies — together with Republican Nationwide Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel and Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn — may doubtlessly be referred to as as witnesses within the first Georgia election interference trial, in response to a courtroom submitting within the case.
Sept. 28, 2023
Attorneys for Trump notify a Fulton County courtroom that he is not going to search to have his Georgia election interference case eliminated to federal courtroom. A month prior, Trump had notified the courtroom that he could file to take away, which the brand new submitting says was carried out “in an abundance of warning.”
Sept. 29, 2023
Scott Corridor, a Georgia bail bondsman charged in relation to the alleged breach of voting machine gear in Espresso County, takes a plea deal wherein he’ll comply with testify towards others within the case. The association marks the primary plea deal within the case.
In the meantime, Choose Steve Jones rejects the efforts of all of the remaining defendants who had sought removing of their instances to federal courtroom. The choose guidelines that former Division of Justice official Jeffrey Clark and so-called “alternate electors” David Shafer, Cathy Latham and Shawn Nonetheless haven’t met the necessities to have their instances moved from Georgia state courtroom into federal courtroom.
Oct. 3, 2023
Sources inform ABC Information that quite a few defendants within the case have obtained plea deal presents or have been approached about doubtlessly making a deal by the district lawyer’s workplace.
Oct. 4, 2023
Kenneth Chesebro information a movement to dismiss his case, alleging that Fulton County particular prosecutor Nathan Wade, who was introduced in by the district lawyer to assist with the election interference investigation, did not file the oath of workplace required to hitch the DA’s workforce.
Oct. 5, 2023
Choose McAfee denies the request from former Trump marketing campaign lawyer Sidney Powell to have the case towards her dismissed over allegations of prosecutorial misconduct.
Oct. 6, 2023
Choose McAfee denies Kenneth Chesebro’s movement in search of to dismiss his case over an alleged paperwork error by one of many prosecutors, saying that submitting of the oath of workplace just isn’t required by these working solely on one particular case.
Oct. 10, 2023
Fulton County prosecutors information requests in search of the testimony of Republican Nationwide Committee chair Ronna McDaniel and InfoWars host Alex Jones within the Oct. 23 trial of Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro.
Oct. 16, 2023
Former Trump Chief of Employees Mark Meadows is granted a listening to by the U.S. Eleventh Circuit Courtroom of Appeals over his continued effort to maneuver his Fulton County case into federal courtroom. The appeals courtroom units oral arguments for Dec. 15.
Oct. 18, 2023
ABC Information reviews that Kenneth Chesebro, in late September, rejected a plea supply from prosecutors, in response to sources. The deal would have allowed Chesebro to keep away from jail time by pleading responsible to at least one felony rely of racketeering and agreeing to testify towards his co-defendants within the case, in response to the sources.
Oct. 19, 2023
Sooner or later earlier than jury choice is about to get underway in her trial, former Trump marketing campaign lawyer Sidney Powell takes a plea deal wherein she receives probation in change for agreeing to testify within the case.
Powell, who prosecutors accused of serving to tamper with voting machines in Espresso County, turns into the second of the case’s 19 defendants within the case to strike a plea settlement.
Oct. 20, 2023
Kenneth Chesebro, a key co-defendant within the case, takes a last-minute plea deal simply as jury choice for his trial is getting underway.
The lawyer, who prosecutors say drafted a technique to make use of so-called “alternate electors” to forestall Joe Biden from receiving 270 electoral votes within the 2020 election, pleads responsible to a single felony cost of conspiracy to commit submitting of false paperwork, and can obtain 5 years’ probation and a $5,000 nice in change for agreeing to testify and supply paperwork and proof.
Oct. 24, 2023
Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis turns into the fourth defendant to take a plea deal, tearfully admitting in courtroom that she made up particulars about election fraud and saying that she regretted representing the previous president.
She pleads responsible to at least one rely of aiding and abetting false statements and writings, and can obtain probation in change for her testimony within the case.
Nov. 13, 2023
ABC Information obtains video excerpts of proffer interviews Georgia prosecutors held with attorneys Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell as a part of the plea offers they struck within the case.
Amongst different revelations, Ellis tells prosecutors within the video that senior Trump White Home official Dan Scavino, referring to Trump, advised her at a White Home Christmas occasion weeks after the 2020 election that “the boss just isn’t going to go away beneath any circumstances” regardless of shedding the election.
Nov. 16, 2023
Choose McAfee points a protecting order within the case following a request from Willis’ workplace in mild of the publication of proffer interview movies by ABC Information and different media shops. The order requires the state to designate which discovery supplies they consider are delicate — and are thus protected against being made public — and offers the defendants a chance to problem that.
Nov. 17, 2023
Fulton County prosecutors, in a courtroom submitting, request a begin date of Aug. 5, 2024, for the trial of Trump and his co-defendants.
The submitting, which asks that every one the defendants be tried collectively, says the August date “balances potential delays from Defendant Trump’s different felony trials,” in addition to the opposite defendants’ constitutional speedy-trial rights.
Nov. 21, 2023
Choose McAfee rejects a request from prosecutors to revoke the bond of co-defendant Harrison Floyd, after the DA says he engaged in witness intimidation by posting a number of tweets tagging witnesses within the case.
Dec. 1, 2023
Trump’s attorneys inform a Fulton County courtroom that the indictment towards Trump “must be dismissed” on the grounds that it prosecutes conduct protected by the First Modification, throughout a pair of hearings wherein legal professionals for the previous president and several other of his co-defendants search the dismissal of the case or a delay within the case’s upcoming deadlines.
Dec. 15, 2023
Three judges on eleventh U.S. Circuit Courtroom of Appeals pepper attorneys for former Trump Chief of Employees Mark Meadows and the Fulton County district lawyer’s workplace with questions throughout a listening to on Meadows’ ongoing effort to maneuver the costs towards him into federal courtroom.
Dec. 18, 2023
A federal appeals courtroom in Georgia rejects a bid by former Trump Chief of Employees Mark Meadows to maneuver his case into federal courtroom, affirming a decrease courtroom’s resolution that left it in Georgia state courtroom.
The ruling comes on the identical day that Trump, in a courtroom submitting, urges the choose within the case to dismiss all prices towards him on First Modification grounds, arguing that the DA’s indictment seeks to criminalize “core political speech.”
Jan. 8, 2024
A defendant within the election interference case, former Trump marketing campaign staffer Michael Roman, information a movement in search of to dismiss the costs towards him and disqualify DA Fani Willis, alleging that Willis “engaged in a private, romantic relationship” with Nathan Wade, one of many prime prosecutors she introduced in to work on the case, which allegedly resulted in monetary achieve for each of them.
Individually, Trump’s authorized workforce information a number of new motions in search of to dismiss the case towards him on grounds that embody presidential immunity, which they are saying “shields him from felony prosecution.”
Jan. 12, 2024
Throughout a listening to to listen to motions from a number of defendants within the case, Choose McAfee tells attorneys there’ll seemingly be a listening to in early February, on the earliest, to deal with allegations filed towards Willis that she had an inappropriate relationship with prosecutor Nathan Wade.
Jan. 14, 2024
Willis, talking throughout a Sunday church service celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day, seems to acknowledge the improper relationship allegations leveled towards her, whereas additionally defending the particular prosecutor she introduced in for the election interference case.
Jan. 18, 2024
Choose McAfee units a listening to date of Feb. 15 to listen to proof over allegations that Willis and prosecutor Nathan Wade had been having an improper relationship.
Jan. 19, 2024
The bank card statements of Fulton County particular prosecutor Nathan Wade seem to indicate he paid for a number of journeys for him and Willis, in response to copies of the statements included in a submitting submitted by Wade’s spouse as half their divorce proceedings.
Jan. 22, 2024
The Georgia choose overseeing Nathan Wade’s divorce case points a keep of Fani Willis’ deposition within the case, saying that he’ll wait till after Wade is deposed within the proceedings the next week to find out whether or not Willis must be deposed.
Jan. 25, 2024
Attorneys representing Trump transfer to hitch the movement filed by co-defendant Mike Roman that seeks to disqualify Willis and dismiss the felony prices towards him based mostly on allegations of an improper relationship.
Jan. 30, 2024
On the eve of a listening to within the divorce proceedings of prosecutor Nathan Wade and his spouse, the 2 come to a “momentary settlement” that cancels the listening to, stopping what may have been sworn testimony from Wade and the potential launch of any information pertaining to the allegations involving Wade and Willis that would have arisen on the listening to.
Jan. 31, 2024
ABC Information reviews that DA Fani Willis and prosecutor Nathan Wade have been subpoenaed to testify on the Feb. 15 listening to set by Choose McAfee, in response to a brand new lawsuit from election case co-defendant Michael Roman’s lawyer, Ashleigh Service provider, that accuses Willis’ workplace workplace of “stonewalling” Product owner’s efforts to acquire information from the workplace via public info requests.
Feb 2, 2024
A courtroom submitting from Fulton County DA Fani Willis admits to a “private relationship” with prosecutor Nathan Wade, however argues that there’s “no monetary battle of curiosity that constitutes a authorized bases for disqualification” from the election interference case. The submitting requests that the Feb. 15 evidentiary listening to scheduled to look at the allegations towards Willis and Wade be canceled, claiming that “no additional factual improvement is important.”
Feb 7, 2024
Trump, in a courtroom submitting, renews his request to have Willis disqualified and his election prices dismissed, arguing that feedback Willis made throughout her church speech in early January violated her workplace’s ethics necessities.
Feb 9, 2024
Trump co-defendant Michael Roman information a movement accusing Willis of together with falsehoods in her submitting that admitted to a “private relationship” with prosecutor Nathan Wade, saying he has a witness who will refute Willis’ declare that her and Wade’s relationship began after Wade was employed for the election case.
Feb 12, 2024
Saying that it is “potential” misconduct allegations leveled towards DA Fani Willis “may lead to disqualification” if proof reveals she financially benefited from the case, Choose McAfee confirms that the Feb. 15 listening to on the matter will proceed as scheduled.
Feb 15, 2024
On the primary day of the evidentiary listening to into misconduct allegations towards prosecutor Nathan Wade and DA Fani Willis, Wade testifies beneath oath that his romantic relationship with Willis started after she employed him in November 2021, and that when the 2 of them traveled collectively Willis usually paid him again in money in order that bills roughly “balanced out.” Wade additionally testifies that he visited Willis’ apartment lower than 10 instances previous to his being employed.
Willis, on the stand, blasts the allegations towards her and testified that her and Wade’s romantic relationship did not begin till after Wade’s hiring, saying, “I did not contemplate my relationship with him to be romantic earlier than that.”
Feb 16, 2024
On Day 2 of the listening to, Terrence Bradley, Wade’s former regulation companion and divorce lawyer, largely declines to reply questions, citing attorney-client privilege. Bradley, whom the protection has claimed has proof that Wade and Willis’ relationship started earlier than Wade was employed, testifies that he had “no private data” of when the connection began, however acknowledges that Wade had advised him about “socializing” with Willis previous to November 2021.
Choose Scott McAfee says he was “left questioning” about whether or not Bradley had “been correctly decoding privilege,” and says he might want to study Bradley in non-public to make that dedication.
Feb 23, 2024
Attorneys for Trump submit a request to enter new proof based mostly on Wade’s cellphone information, which they claims present that Wade visited the world of Willis’ apartment roughly 35 instances in 2021, previous to her hiring him. The DA’s workplace urges the choose to not admit the information into proof, saying they “do nothing extra” than present that Wade’s cellphone “was situated someplace inside a densely populated multiple-mile radius.”
Feb 26, 2024
Choose McAfee guidelines that Wade’s former regulation companion and divorce lawyer, Terrence Bradley, should retake the stand to testify on subjects not coated by attorney-client privilege.
Feb 27, 2024
A two-hour listening to concludes with out offering any revelatory details about the timeline of Willis and Wade’s romantic relationship, which the protection contends began earlier than Wade was employed, in distinction to what they each testified.
Wade’s former regulation companion and divorce lawyer, Terrence Bradley, who the protection argued would testify that the connection began previous to Wade’s hiring, testifies that any previous statements he made to that impact had been “hypothesis on my half.”
March 1, 2024
Choose McAfee hears closing arguments on motions to disqualify DA Fani Willis, with the protection arguing that Willis and Nathan Wade conspired to convey the election case to complement themselves with public cash, and attorneys for the DA’s workplace arguing that defendants have failed to fulfill the “excessive normal of proof” for disqualification.
March 5, 2024
DA Fani Willis’ workplace urges Choose McAfee to reject the disqualification effort towards her, arguing in a courtroom submitting that Trump and his co-defendants failed to fulfill the “excessive” normal required by regulation to disqualify an elected district lawyer. In response, the protection says in a submitting that that Willis dedicated “appalling and unforgivable” types of forensic misconduct.
March 6, 2024
Ashleigh Service provider, the lead lawyer pushing for the disqualification of DA Fani Willis, gives new testimony to a Georgia Senate panel about how she says she uncovered the romantic relationship between Willis and prosecutor Nathan Wade that sits on the coronary heart of the misconduct allegations.
March 13, 2024
Choose McAfee quashes a number of counts contained within the election interference indictment towards Trump and several other of his co-defendants, dismissing six counts associated to the cost of Solicitation of Violation of Oath by a Public Officer. Of the 13 counts Trump confronted, three of them are tossed by the choose’s order, leaving Trump to face 10 counts within the case.
March 15, 2024
In a extremely anticipated ruling, Choose McAfee declines to outright disqualify Fulton County DA Fani Willis, however guidelines that both she or prosecutor Nathan Wade should step other than the case. The choose writes that whereas “dismissal of the indictment just isn’t the suitable treatment,” his conclusion is that “the established file now highlights a major look of impropriety that infects the present construction of the prosecution workforce.”
Hours later, Wade resigns as particular prosecutor, making certain that Willis will keep on.
March 18, 2024
Trump and several other of his co-defendants file a movement asking Choose McAfee to grant a certificates of speedy evaluation as a way to attraction the choose’s ruling that finally stored Fulton County DA Fani Willis on the election case.
March 20, 2024
Choose McAfee grants the request from Trump and several other co-defendants to acquire a certificates of speedy evaluation, clearing the best way for Trump to attraction the choose’s ruling that finally stored Willis on the case.
March 25, 2024
Choose McAfee, vowing to maintain the election case transferring ahead throughout any potential attraction, schedules a March 28 listening to to listen to oral arguments on quite a few motions from Trump and his co-defendant David Shafer.
March 27, 2024
DA Fani Willis, in a letter to Home Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, says that her workplace has totally complied with a congressional subpoena associated to a federal funding probe, and vows that “nothing that you simply do will derail the efforts of my workers and I to convey the election interference prosecution to trial.”
March 28, 2024
Attorneys for Trump, in search of to have the election case dismissed, argue in a listening to that Trump’s feedback “calling into query” the election of 2020 had been “political speech advocacy that lie on the coronary heart of the First Modification” — however prosecutors fireplace again, telling Choose McAfee that Trump’s speech was a part of a conspiracy to commit crimes. The choose ends the listening to with out making any rulings on the motions.
March 29, 2024
Trump and several other of his co-defendants file an attraction of the disqualification ruling that allowed Fulton County DA Fani Willis to stay on the case. The movement argues that Choose McAfee “erred as a matter of regulation by not requiring dismissal and DA Willis’ disqualification.”
April 4, 2024
Choose McAfee denies a movement from Trump and several other of co-defendants in search of to have the case thrown out on the grounds that the indictment violated their First Modification proper to political speech. “Even core political speech addressing issues of public concern just isn’t impenetrable from prosecution if allegedly used to additional felony exercise,” the choose guidelines.
April 24, 2024
Trump, in a courtroom submitting, asks Choose McAfee to dismiss two extra of the ten remaining counts towards him.
Could 5, 2024
Nathan Wade, in an unique interview with ABC Information’ Linsey Davis, says he has sure regrets concerning the relationship with DA Fani Willis that finally resulted in his resigning kind the case, however defends the integrity of the case itself and says he believes there might be a “day of reckoning” regardless of the case being sidelined for months over scandal.
Could 8, 2024
A Georgia appeals courtroom agrees to take up Trump’s attraction of the Fani Willis disqualification ruling that finally allowed her to stay on the Georgia election interference case, seemingly delaying the case towards the previous president.
Could 23, 2024
DA Fani Willis information a discover of attraction on the March ruling that dismissed six of the counts towards Donald Trump and his co-defendants.
June 3, 2024
The Georgia Courtroom of Appeals tentatively schedules oral arguments in former President Trump’s attraction of the Fani Willis disqualification ruling for October, making it virtually sure that Trump is not going to see trial in his Georgia election interference case earlier than the 2024 election.
June 5, 2024
A Georgia courtroom of appeals halts former President Trump’s felony case in Fulton County pending the decision of his attraction of the disqualification ruling that allowed District Legal professional Fani Willis to remain on the case.
June 20, 2024
Trump’s attorneys, in a courtroom submitting, urge the Georgia Courtroom of Appeals to reject DA Fani Willis’ effort to dismiss his attraction of the choose’s resolution to not disqualify her from the case.
July 1, 2024
In a blockbuster resolution that would have an effect on Trump’s Georgia case, the U.S. Supreme Courtroom guidelines in Trump’s federal election interference case that the previous president is entitled to presumptive immunity from felony prosecution for official acts taken whereas in workplace.
July 16, 2024
The Georgia Courtroom of Appeals schedules oral arguments in Trump’s attraction of the Fani Willis disqualification resolution for Dec. 5, pushing the case previous the November election.
Sept. 12, 2024
Choose Scott McAfee tosses out three extra counts within the election interference indictment, two of which Donald Trump was going through, leaving the previous president going through eight of the case’s unique 13 counts.
Oct. 16, 2024
DA Fani Willis asks the Georgia Courtroom of Appeals to reinstate quite a few prices towards Trump and his co-defendants that had been tossed out by Choose McAfee earlier within the 12 months.
Nov. 6, 2024
Donald Trump is reelected president of the USA over Kamala Harris, doubtlessly putting his Georgia election case into an unprecedented authorized limbo, specialists inform ABC Information.
Nov. 12, 2024
The Supreme Courtroom rejects a request from former Trump chief of workers Mark Meadows to maneuver his Georgia election interference case into federal courtroom.
Nov. 18, 2024
The Georgia Courtroom of Appeals, with out providing additional rationalization, cancels the Dec. 5 listening to at which it was to listen to oral arguments in Trump’s attraction of the Fani Willis disqualification challenge.
Dec. 2, 2024
Fulton County Superior Courtroom Choose Robert McBurney orders DA Fani Willis to show over any information from particular counsel Jack Smith or the U.S. Home choose committee that investigated the Jan. 6 Capitol assault, following a lawsuit from the conservative authorized group Judicial Watch in search of paperwork associated to the DA’s election interference case.
Dec. 4, 2024
Trump’s lawyer asks the Georgia Courtroom of Appeals to direct Choose McAfee to dismiss the election interference indictment towards Trump on the grounds {that a} sitting president is immune from federal or state felony prosecution.
Dec. 12, 2024
Fulton County DA Fani Willis rebuffs the most recent request from Home Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan in search of info associated to her election interference probe, telling the Republican senator in a letter that the investigation is “ongoing.”
