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Politics
Tatyana Tandanpolie

"Desperate" Trump tries to oust Ga. DA

Former President Donald Trump on Friday filed a petition to Georgia's Supreme Court seeking to squash the final report of a special purpose grand jury recommending people for indictments and disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis from continuing to investigate him for attempting to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results — ahead of his widely expected indictment this summer.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Trump's lawyers also requested the court prohibit Willis from using any evidence obtained by the investigative jury, which heard testimony between May 2022 and January 2023 from 75 witnesses.

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