Racketeering Charges Stalk Trump in Georgia

The former president is being pursued by a state prosecutor casting a wide net.

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The Fulton County district attorney, Fani Willis, on May 2, 2022. AP/Ben Gray, file

All eyes are on Georgia as legal peril for President Trump is coming into focus most clearly in the Peachtree State, where a Fulton County district attorney, Fanni Willis, appears poised to hand up charges that no presidential pardon, which covers federal crimes, could cover. With Mr. Trump’s 2024 campaign under way, she seems set to act.

While President Biden’s own classified document travails appear to complicate Attorney General Garland’s path to handing up indictments to Mr. Trump for what look to be similar paper trails, Ms. Willis has to contend with no such political overhang. Mr. Biden won 73 percent of the Fulton County vote in 2020.  

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