Donald Trump: Georgia court website briefly publishes, then removes document about potential charges

Fulton county court website briefly posted a document listing several criminal charges against Trump before taking the document down without explanation

The published charges appeared related to the former US president’s attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the state

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Former US president and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump in Erie, Pennsylvania, on July 29. Photo: AFP

Published: 1:35am, 15 Aug 2023Updated: 9:00am, 15 Aug 2023

Corrected [2:14am, 15 Aug, 2023]

[2:14am, 15 Aug, 2023]
An earlier edition of this story had the headline "Trump charged with racketeering, conspiracy and false statements by Georgia state". It and the story have been amended to reflect the facts as they are now known.

The Fulton county, Georgia, court’s website briefly posted a document on Monday listing several criminal charges against former US president Donald Trump that appeared related to his attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the state, before taking the document down without explanation.

The Fulton county district attorney’s office said in a statement that no charges had been filed against Trump.

The document was dated August 14 and named Trump, citing the case as “open,” but is no longer available on the court’s website. Reuters was not immediately able to determine why the item was posted or removed.

“The Reuters report that those charges were filed is inaccurate. Beyond that we cannot comment,” a spokesperson for the district attorney’s office said.

Police officers at the Lewis R Slaton Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia ahead of an expected indictment of former US President Donald Trump on Monday. Photo: AFP

Trump, the front runner for the 2024 Republican nomination to challenge Democratic President Joe Biden, has been criminally indicted three times so far this year, including once by US Special Counsel Jack Smith on charges of trying to overturn his election defeat.

He has long dismissed the many investigations, including two impeachments, he has faced in his years in politics as a politically motivated “witch hunt.”