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71 Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, right, and Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney talk successful the Fulton region courthouse, Tuesday, July 11, 2023, successful Atlanta.
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A disputed study Monday astir caller transgression charges against Donald Trump added different furniture of disorder to the erstwhile president's knotty ineligible entanglements.
Headlines from Reuters declared that Georgia had filed galore charges against Trump, including conspiracy, mendacious statements, forgery and racketeering.
But soon aft those headlines were published, a spokeswoman for Fulton County, Georgia, told CNBC that Reuters' reporting was "inaccurate." The spokeswoman did not instantly respond to CNBC's questions astir what, exactly, was inaccurate astir the the story.
In a communicative published minutes later, Reuters reported that Georgia "appears set" to complaint Trump — a marked favoritism from the archetypal headlines, which implied the charges had been filed. The quality outlet cited a two-page docket study that it said had been posted, and past deleted from, the Fulton County court's website.
Reuters posted a copy of that docket study aboriginal Monday afternoon.
CNBC could not independently verify that the docket study represented the pending charges against Trump.
Still, the database aligns with the absorption of a long-running transgression probe into the efforts made by Trump and his allies to overturn President Joe Biden's triumph successful Georgia's 2020 statesmanlike election.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis opened the probe successful February 2021, conscionable weeks aft it was revealed that Trump had asked Georgia's caput of authorities to "find" capable votes to reverse his nonaccomplishment successful the Peach State.
Willis noted from the outset that she was investigating imaginable violations of authorities laws barring predetermination fraud and lying to authorities entities, arsenic good arsenic conspiracy, racketeering and "any engagement successful unit oregon threats" related to the medication of the 2020 election.
Security astatine the Fulton County courthouse has been hardened importantly implicit the past 2 weeks, with roads closed astir the gathering and K-9 units surveilling the country Monday.
