Document posted to Fulton Co. court website listing Trump ‘charges’ while grand jury is still meeting sparks firestorm

Controversy raged on Monday after a document detailing the charges against former President Donald J. Trump in the case revolving around his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results was briefly posted to the Fulton County, Georgia court’s website before the grand jury had completed its work.

The document, which was quickly taken down, showed the 2024 GOP frontrunner’s name along with over three dozen felony counts and was first reported by Reuters, igniting a firestorm on social media with those who already feel that the former president is being railroaded by DA Fani Willis and that the game has been rigged against him.

According to the document, Willis is throwing the kitchen sink at Trump with charges that include violating the state’s RICO act, conspiracy to commit forgery, soliciting a public officer to violate their oath, and numerous other conspiracy-related charges.

Fulton County Clerk of Superior & Magistrate Courts Che Alexander’s office issued a statement warning of a “fictitious document that has been circulated online and reported by various media outlets” but did not explain how the document came to be posted on the website.

NBC News Senior Capitol Hill Correspondent Garrett Haake bemoaned the hot mess that Fulton County created by effectively confirming that the fix is in against Trump.

“This statement just further confuses what happened today. How did a “fictitious” document get posted on their website? Are they accusing Reuters of faking it? There’s no accountability here for a document that Trump allies are seizing on as proving the fix is in against him,” he tweeted.

The Fulton County District Attorney’s office denied the accuracy of the document, with a spokesperson saying, “The Reuters report that those charges were filed is inaccurate. Beyond that, we cannot comment,” in what is a major embarrassment for the politically ambitious Willis.

Twitter/X exploded in outrage after the document was posted with it only serving as confirmation that the United States legal system is now comparable to that of a corrupt banana republic.

“Prosecutorial misconduct like this is what a RIGGED SYSTEM looks like” wrote Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr. “How is the AG of Georgia not stepping in to stop this travesty of justice, after the Fulton County DA violated my father’s Constitutional Rights and tainted the Grand Jury? Going full Banana Republic!!!”

GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy condemned the document in a lengthy post, writing, “Here we go again: another disastrous Trump indictment. It’s downright pathetic that Fulton County publicly posted the indictment on its website even before the grand jury had finished convening. Since the four prosecutions against Trump are using novel & untested legal theories, it’s fair game for him to do the same in defense: immediately file a motion to dismiss for a constitutional due process violation for publicly issuing an indictment before the grand jury had actually signed one.”

“He should make a strong argument on these grounds & it would send a powerful message to the ever-expansive prosecutorial police state. As someone who’s running for President against Trump, I’d volunteer to write the amicus brief to the court myself: prosecutors should not be deciding U.S. presidential elections, and if they’re so overzealous that they commit constitutional violations, then the cases should be thrown out & they should be held accountable,” he added.

Trump’s Republican allies in Congress called for Willis’s removal.

“The Fulton County District Attorney’s Office has once again shown that they have no respect for the integrity of the grand jury process. This was not a simple administrative mistake. A proposed indictment should only be in the hands of the District Attorney’s Office, yet it somehow made its way to the clerk’s office and was assigned a case number and a judge before the grand jury even deliberated. This is emblematic of the pervasive and glaring constitutional violations which have plagued this case from its very inception,” Trump’s attorneys Drew Findling and Jennifer Little said in a statement.

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