{"id":2000846,"date":"2023-08-15T03:13:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T07:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-who-is-scott-mcafee-the-judge-tapped-to-preside-over-ex-presidents-fulton-county-case\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T03:24:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T07:24:58","slug":"donald-trump-indicted-who-is-scott-mcafee-the-judge-tapped-to-preside-over-ex-presidents-fulton-county-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-who-is-scott-mcafee-the-judge-tapped-to-preside-over-ex-presidents-fulton-county-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott McAfee, the judge chosen to oversee Donald Trump&#8217;s Fulton County case, is under scrutiny as the ex-president faces indictment."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdonald-trump-indicted-who-is-scott-mcafee-the-judge-tapped-to-preside-over-ex-presidents-fulton-county-case%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2000846&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Judge Presiding Over the Racketeering Case Involving \u200bTrump and 18 Defendants<\/h2>\n<p>The judge tapped to preside over the\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-reveals-shes-been-building-a-massive-rico-case-against-dominion-smartmatic\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell Reveals She\u2019s Been Building a Massive RICO Case Against Dominion, Smartmatic\">racketeering case<\/a> in Fulton County, Georgia,\u2064 involving former President Donald\u2064 Trump and 18 other defendants joined the Superior Court of\u2064 Fulton County this \u200cyear.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Judge Scott McAfee&#8217;s Role in the Case<\/h3>\n<p>Judge Scott \u2062McAfee&#8217;s name\u200b was included in the 98-page indictment \u2063released late\u2063 Monday night. Trump \u2062was indicted on 13\u200d charges, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-was-r-kelly-released-from-prison-in-june-2021\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Was R. Kelly Released From Prison In June 2021?\">including racketeering<\/a>, related to the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Meet Judge Scott McAfee<\/h2>\n<p>McAfee\u200b was appointed to the court by Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) this year after serving \u200bas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-former-ag-barr-initiated-spying-program-on-americans-back-in-1992\/\" title=\"FLASHBACK: Former AG Barr Initiated Spying Program on Americans Back in 1992\">inspector general<\/a> in the Georgia Office of the State Inspector \u2064General, according to the county court&#8217;s website. He has experience as a\u2064 prosecutor \u2064and in \u2063the county where the case \u200bresides, having served as \u2062an assistant United States \u200dattorney for \u200cthe Northern District of Georgia \u2064and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-who-is-scott-mcafee-the-judge-tapped-to-preside-over-ex-presidents-fulton-county-case\/\" title=\"Scott McAfee, the judge chosen to oversee Donald Trump's Fulton County case, is under scrutiny as the ex-president faces indictment.\">senior\u200d assistant district attorney<\/a> in Fulton County in the Atlanta Judicial Circuit.<\/p>\n<p>The Georgia judge will play a prominent role in the racketeering case, notably by picking the date when it will begin. \u200bFulton County District Attorney Fani \u2063Willis said in a Monday night \u200dpress conference she is seeking a trial &#8220;within the next six months,&#8221; but\u2062 it will ultimately be McAfee&#8217;s decision. Trump has\u2064 already\u200d slammed \u200ba proposal by special counsel Jack Smith\u200c in a separate case against him for that trial\u2063 to begin early next year,\u200b stating it would interfere with the 2024\u2064 Republican presidential primary.<\/p>\n<p>The Fulton County trial\u200b will surely \u2062raise McAfee&#8217;s profile, much as Judge Tanya Chutkan&#8217;s has \u2062been raised after it \u200dwas announced she would oversee the Jan.\u2064 6 federal case into Trump&#8217;s alleged efforts\u2062 to \u200boverturn the 2020 election. Chutkan has received\u200d increased security after Trump called for her\u200d to recuse herself and alleged she was biased.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The Indictment and Other\u2063 Cases Against Trump<\/h3>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s indictment\u200b marks the fifth indictment across four criminal cases this year \u200bagainst the former president and current 2024 GOP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bachelor-host-chris-harrison-bashes-cancel-culture-fans-start-petition-to-cancel-him\/\" title=\"Bachelor Host Chris Harrison Bashes Cancel Culture, Fans Start Petition To Cancel Him\">front-runner<\/a>. The 18 \u2063others named in\u200d the \u200bindictment include former \u200bTrump \u2062White House chief of staff Mark \u2062Meadows, \u2063Rudy\u2063 Giuliani, and attorney John Eastman.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump, in his first \u200bstatement after the indictment was unsealed, referred\u200d to the case as a &#8220;Witch Hunt&#8221; and &#8220;rigged.&#8221; His campaign \u2064and attorneys expressed similar sentiments\u2063 on Monday, both before and after the indictment\u2063 was released.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 former president has been indicted\u200d in three other jurisdictions this year.\u200c Trump\u200c was indicted in Manhattan in March \u2064on charges related to the alleged falsification of business records, he was\u2062 federally indicted in Florida for his alleged mishandling of classified documents\u200c in June,\u2062 and he was federally indicted in Washington, \u2064D.C., earlier this month for charges related to his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<h2>Trump&#8217;s Future in the 2024 Presidential Race<\/h2>\n<p>Trump is the front-runner\u200d in\u200c the 2024 Republican presidential primary \u2064by a large margin. Most \u200dof his opponents\u2063 in the Republican presidential primary have \u2062not addressed the latest\u2063 Trump indictment. Winning the GOP nomination would likely lead to a 2020 election rematch against President Joe Biden, the front-runner on \u200cthe\u200d Democratic side.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fulton County, Georgia judge overseeing the racketeering case against ex-President Donald Trump and 18 others recently joined the Superior Court. Judge Scott McAfee&#8217;s name appeared in the 98-page indictment released on Monday, charging Trump with 13 counts, including racketeering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2000847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}