Final criminal case against Trump dismissed after Georgia prosecutor drops charges
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🗓️ 26 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Liz, I'm going to switch gears for us and what is really the end of a chapter in American |
| 0:05.5 | history. |
| 0:06.0 | The final criminal charges against President Donald Trump have been dropped after a prosecutor |
| 0:10.9 | in Georgia moved to dismiss the case, focus on a push to overturn the 2020 election results |
| 0:16.5 | in the state. |
| 0:17.3 | The president, as we remember, was one of 19 suspects. |
| 0:22.4 | That's his mugshot back then, |
| 0:29.0 | including his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, as well as former attorney Rudy Giuliani. |
| 0:30.4 | What happened today? I want to remind our viewers that this was all precipitated by a phone call, an infamous phone call now, |
| 0:36.3 | between President Trump and Georgia's Secretary |
| 0:38.2 | of State Brad Raffensberger. |
| 0:41.1 | So what are we going to do here, folks? I only need 11,000 votes. Tell us, I need 11,000 |
| 0:46.5 | votes. Give me a break. You know, we have that in spades already. Nick, that phone call |
| 0:52.9 | happened at the beginning of January in 2021. |
| 0:55.8 | By February, just a month later, the district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia, Fani |
| 1:00.5 | Willis, had opened a criminal investigation into that phone call and whether the president |
| 1:05.0 | was pressuring the Secretary of State to overturn the election results in Georgia. |
| 1:09.7 | This resulted in a long legal battle, |
| 1:12.6 | and there were criminal charges that were brought against the president and these 18 other |
| 1:16.8 | co-defendants in August of 2023. Now, this was considered a RICO or a racketeering case. It was |
| 1:24.5 | sweeping. There were different charges against different defendants here. |
| 1:29.3 | But this was all a number of people that are high profile and that I think our viewers would |
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