Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ case against President Donald Trump has officially come to an end.
Judge Scott McAfee agreed to dismiss the racketeering case on Wednesday after the prosecutor who inherited Willis’ troubled effort urged him to take it off “life support.”
“The political persecution of President Trump by disqualified DA Fani Willis is finally over,” Trump’s lead Georgia defense counsel Steve Sadow said in a statement. “This case should never have been brought. A fair and impartial prosecutor has put an end to this lawfare.”
Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia (PACGA) Executive Director Peter Skanadlakis, who was tasked with finding Willis’ replacement after she was disqualified from prosecuting the case, took over on Nov. 14 after failing to find another attorney willing to do it.
“As a former elected official who ran as both a Democrat and a Republican and now is the Executive Director of a non-partisan agency, this decision is not guided by a desire to advance an agenda but is based on my beliefs and understanding of the law,” Skanadlakis wrote Wednesday.
BREAKING: Judge Scott McAfee agreed to dismiss Fani Willis’ case against Trump and co-defendants at the request of the new prosecutor who took over. pic.twitter.com/T4pdrLbiFz
Should the dismissal of the case against Trump be seen as justified?— Katelynn Richardson (@katesrichardson) November 26, 2025
Skanadlakis explained the charges would be more appropriate for a federal case, like the one brought by special counsel Jack Smith, not a state case. Smith was forced to abandon his effort after Trump won the 2024 election.
“Overt acts such as arranging a phone call, issuing a public statement, tweeting to the public to watch the Georgia Senate subcommittee hearings, texting someone to attend those hearings, or answering a 63-minute phone call without providing the context of that conversation, just to name a few examples, are not acts I would consider sufficient to sustain a RICO case,” Skandalakis wrote.
The Georgia Supreme Court upheld a ruling disqualifying Willis from the case in September.
Defense attorneys moved to disqualify Willis in January 2024 for awarding her romantic partner, Nathan Wade, a “lucrative” contract to work on the case, claiming she improperly benefited when he took her on cruises and vacations.
Willis falsely claimed she paid all the special prosecutors working on the case the same hourly rate, though contracts first reported by the Daily Caller News Foundation showed she paid Wade a higher rate than the state’s top racketeering expert.
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