By Kaelan Deese. Media: Washingtonexaminer
Confusion swirled in Fulton County, Georgia, on Monday after a now-deleted filing showed former President Donald Trump’s name next to dozens of crimes despite officials saying no charges have been filed.
The document, obtained by Reuters, was dated Aug. 14 and named Trump, with the case marked “open,” but was no longer visible on the court’s website shortly after it was reported on.

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The Fulton County District Attorney’s Office released a statement that no charges had been filed against Trump.
“The Reuters report that those charges were filed is inaccurate. Beyond that we cannot comment,” a spokesperson for the District Attorney’s Office told the outlet.
Shortly after 4:30 EDT on Monday, the Office of the Fulton County Clerk of Superior and Magistrate Courts Honorable Che Alexander released a statement to the Washington Examiner noting it had learned of a “fictitious document that has been circulated online and reported by various media outlets related to the Fulton County Special Purpose Grand Jury.
“While there have been no documents filed today regarding such, all members of the media should be reminded that documents that do not bear an official case number, filing date, and the name of The Clerk of Courts, in concert, are not considered official filings and should not be treated as such,” the statement continued.
According to the document that was reportedly posted to the county’s website and subsequently removed, it appeared Trump could face a total of 39 felony counts on charges that the docket lists with dates ranging from November 4, 2020, through September 17, 2021, including a “Violation Of The Georgia Rico (Racketeer Influenced And Corrupt Organizations) Act” and “Solicitation of Violation of Oath by Public Officer,” as well as “Conspiracy To Commit Impersonating a Public Officer.”
Jack Queen, a legal correspondent from Reuters, tweeted a screenshot of the now-deleted filing shortly after one of his colleagues, John Kruzel, reported “GEORGIA FILES LEGAL ACTION AGAINST DONALD TRUMP” Monday at around noon.
A reporter from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Tamar Hallerman, responded to the tweet about Queen’s reporting, saying “This is NOT true.”
Kruzel posted a subsequent tweet at 1 p.m. stating: “Out of an abundance of caution, I’ve deleted a tweet about a possible Trump indictment that was based on a colleague’s reporting as we await further information.”

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, a Democrat, has been investigating whether Trump and his allies illegally sought to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results and has been expected to seek an indictment from a grand jury this week.
Notably, former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, a Republican, was slated to testify on Tuesday, Aug. 15, but AJC reported Monday afternoon that he would instead be offering testimony on Monday, Aug. 14.
If Trump is charged in Fulton County, it would mark his fourth indictment this year, the second to arise from his alleged efforts to subvert the 2020 election results.
While Trump has yet to respond to the now-deleted filing, Trump ally and Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy released a statement describing the temporary upload of the file as “downright pathetic.
āHere we go again: another disastrous Trump indictment. Itās downright pathetic that Fulton County publicly posted the indictment on its website even before the grand jury had finished convening,” Ramaswamy said.
The venture capitalist also claimed the prosecutions against Trump are based on “untested legal theories.
“Since the four prosecutions against Trump are using novel and untested legal theories, itās fair game for him to do the same in defense: immediately file a motion to dismiss for a constitutional due process violation for publicly issuing an indictment before the grand jury had actually signed one,” Ramaswamy said.
“He should make a strong argument on these grounds and it would send a powerful message to the ever-expansive prosecutorial police state,” he added.
Queen posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that “this document was posted online by the fulton county georgia DA’s office and then quickly taken down.” However, it wouldn’t be the first time a Trump case has had a “fake” filing.
Last September, a document purported to be from the U.S. Treasury Department claimed the agency seized sensitive records related to the FBI’s raid on Trump’s Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, and that it included a warrant ordering CNN to preserve “leaked tax records.” In actuality, the document originated from a serial forger in a federal prison complex in North Carolina.
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