Georgia indictment of Donald Trump
On August 14, 2023, Donald Trump was charged in Georgia on 13 counts in connection with his attempt to overturn the Georgia results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, which was won by Joe Biden. On November 26, 2025, during Trump’s second term as president, the case was dismissed after a Georgia state prosecutor filed a motion to drop the lawsuit.
The indictment by a Fulton county, Georgia, grand jury was the fourth indictment of the former president. The other indictments included:
- A March 2023 indictment in New York on charges of falsifying business records to keep damaging information from the American public in advance of the 2016 presidential election. This became known as the Stormy Daniels case. Trump was convicted in 2024 but was given no jail time or fines.
- A June 2023 federal indictment in Florida that charged Trump on counts related to his alleged mishandling of government documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach. The case was dismissed in 2024.
- An August 2023 federal indictment for actions related to Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, including the events of January 6, 2021. The case was dismissed after Trump won the 2024 presidential election; the Department of Justice has a policy that prohibits the prosecution of a sitting president.
The two cases involving federal charges were pursed by special counsel Jack Smith.
In addition to Trump, 18 others were charged in the Georgia case, which was the result of a two-and-a-half-year investigation by Fulton county district attorney Fani Willis. The 41 total charges involved violations of Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). Among the others charged were former New York City mayor and Trump personal attorney Rudolph Giuliani, conservative lawyer and former Supreme Court clerk John Eastman, and former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows.
At the time the charges were filed, Willis said she would be prepared to go to trial within six months, but the case was never tried. In February 2024 Trump’s legal team sought to have Willis disqualified from trying the case, citing a relationship with a fellow attorney as being improper conduct. She was ultimately removed, and in November 2025 the new prosecutor opted to end the prosecution.
Read the indictment here. Read the motion that resulted in the case being dismissed here.