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FULTON COUNTY, Georgia (LifeSiteNews) — The Fulton County Clerk of Courts said Tuesday that the Monday release of a litany of charges against former U.S. President Donald Trump was a mistake. The comment comes after the Trump team argued that the release and almost immediate retraction of the document wasn’t a mere clerical error but evidence of “the pervasive and glaring constitutional violations which have plagued this case from its very inception.”
As LifeSiteNews previously reported, the Fulton County Court published and quickly retracted a document seemingly listing myriad charges against Trump on Monday morning. Dated August 14, the document included a case number and listed 12 felony charges, including “solicitation of violation of oath by public officer,” “conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree,” and racketeering.
The abrupt appearance and disappearance of the charges before the grand jury had publicly finished its deliberations triggered a flurry of reactions online among conservative commentators and politicians, including Trump’s campaign.
In a press release later Monday, the court office said that it had “learned of a fictitious document that has been circulated
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