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Politics
Areeba Shah

First Georgia trial: "Doom" for Trump?

Judge Scott McAfee on Thursday approved an expedited trial for two of Donald Trump's co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case, attorneys Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, severing their case from those of the other 17 defendants.

Trump and 18 co-defendants were charged last month over their efforts to reverse the ex-president's defeat in the 2020 election in Georgia. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis used Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act to have all 19 defendants in the case stand trial together.

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