‘Georgia court site posts then removes document with criminal charges against Donald Trump’

Fulton County’s website reportedly had a document with charges against former President Donald Trump posted briefly (Pictures: AP/Reuters)

A Georgia court’s website reportedly published a document with a list of criminal charges against ex-President Donald Trump – before quickly taking it down.

The document that was apparently uploaded to the Fulton County site on Monday was obtained and shared online by Reuters.

But the Fulton County District Attorney’s office is claiming that charges have not been filed against Trump.

The document had a file date of August 14 and displayed a case number as well as ‘The State of Georgia VS DONALD JOHN TRUMP’. It listed one serious felony charge and 13 felony charges, in an investigation of Trump and his former advisers’ alleged efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election.

The first page of a document briefly posted and then taken down from the Fulton County, Georgia official court website (Picture: Reuters)

It stated that the case is ‘open’.

After the document could not be found on the website, Reuters said it was not able to immediately determine why the Fulton County site published or removed it.

A spokesperson for the District Attorney’s office told the news outlet: ‘The Reuters report that those charges were filed is inaccurate. Beyond that we cannot comment.’

Additionally, the Fulton County court clerk’s office noted ‘a fictitious document that has been circulated online’ to Reuters, but did not say if it was the one with charges against Trump.

The second page of a document that was taken back down by the court without explanation (Picture: Reuters)

The document emerged on the same day that a grand jury began hearing evidence in the probe on the Fulton County election subversion case, which could possibly end with a fourth indictment against Trump.

Trump’s lawyer slammed the District Attorney’s office for the apparent document posting.

‘This was not a simple administrative mistake,’ stated Trump’s lawyers Drew Findling and Jennifer Little.

‘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.

The document showed a list of potential felony charges against former President Donald Trump (Picture: Reuters)

‘This is emblematic of the pervasive and glaring constitutional violations which have plagued this case from its very inception.’

They concluded that the District Attorney’s office ‘has once again shown that they have no respect for the integrity of the grand jury process’.

District Attorney Fani Willis and her team of prosecutors started presenting their case to an Atlanta-area jury on Monday. They may be speaking to jurors for up to two days. Willis has been considering conspiracy and racketeering charges against Trump.

Reuters downloaded the document shortly before the court took it down (Picture: Reuters)

Trump’s team is preparing for a possible indictment against him to be delivered imminently.

‘We’ve already briefed our surrogates, our allies,’ a Trump adviser told CNN. ‘We’ve already teed up conservative media, they’ve done pre-written pieces ready to pop out.’

Trump faces a possible fourth indictment as he remains the clear frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination.

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