{"id":2000858,"date":"2023-08-15T03:28:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T07:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-who-is-scott-mcafee-the-judge-presiding-over-ex-presidents-fulton-county-case\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T03:29:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T07:29:38","slug":"donald-trump-indicted-who-is-scott-mcafee-the-judge-presiding-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-presiding-over-ex-presidents-fulton-county-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Scott McAfee, the judge overseeing Donald Trump&#8217;s Fulton County case?"},"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\">24<\/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-presiding-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=2000858&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 \u200cInvolving \u2063Trump and 18 \u200dDefendants<\/h2>\n<p>The judge tapped to preside over the racketeering case in\u2063 Fulton County, Georgia, involving former President Donald \u2064Trump and 18 other defendants joined the Superior Court of Fulton County this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Judge Scott McAfee&#8217;s\u2063 Role in \u2064the Case<\/h3>\n<p>Judge Scott McAfee&#8217;s name was included in the 98-page indictment\u2063 released late Monday night. Trump \u200bwas\u2062 indicted on 13 charges, including racketeering, related to the\u2063 2020 election.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Meet Judge Scott\u200b McAfee<\/h2>\n<p>McAfee \u2062was appointed \u2062to the court\u200d by Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA)\u2064 this year \u200bafter serving as\u200c inspector general in the Georgia\u2064 Office of\u2063 the State Inspector General, \u200baccording to the county court&#8217;s website. He has experience as a\u200d prosecutor and in the county where the\u200d case \u2063resides, having served as an assistant United States attorney for the Northern District of Georgia and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-who-is-scott-mcafee-the-judge-presiding-over-ex-presidents-fulton-county-case\/\" title=\"Who is Scott McAfee, the judge overseeing Donald Trump's Fulton County case?\">senior assistant district \u200cattorney<\/a> in Fulton County in the Atlanta Judicial Circuit.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2063Georgia judge\u2062 will play a prominent role in\u200d the racketeering case, notably by \u200bpicking \u2064the date\u200b when it will begin. Fulton County District Attorney Fani \u2064Willis said in \u200ba Monday night press conference she is seeking\u200d a trial &#8220;within the next six months,&#8221; but\u2062 it will ultimately be McAfee&#8217;s \u200cdecision. Trump \u200dhas already slammed a proposal by special counsel Jack Smith in a separate case against him for that trial to begin early next year, stating it \u2064would interfere with the 2024 Republican presidential primary.<\/p>\n<p>The Fulton County trial\u2063 will\u2064 surely raise McAfee&#8217;s profile, much as Judge \u2064Tanya Chutkan&#8217;s \u2064has been \u2063raised after it was announced she would\u200b oversee the Jan. 6 federal case into Trump&#8217;s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Chutkan has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-tanya-chutkan-gets-increased-security-as-trump-calls-for-recusal-in-2020-election-case\/\" title=\"Judge Tanya Chutkan receives more security due to Trump's request for recusal in 2020 election case.\">received increased security<\/a> after Trump called for her to recuse herself and alleged she was biased.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The Indictment and\u200b Trump&#8217;s Response<\/h3>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s indictment marks the fifth indictment across four criminal cases this \u2063year against the former president and current \u200b2024 GOP front-runner. The 18 others \u2064named in the indictment include former\u200d Trump White \u2064House chief\u200c of\u200c staff\u200b Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, and attorney John\u200b Eastman.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, in his\u2063 first statement after the indictment was unsealed, referred to the case as a \u200d&#8221;Witch Hunt&#8221; and &#8220;rigged.&#8221; His campaign and <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.\">attorneys expressed similar sentiments<\/a> on \u2064Monday, \u2062both before and after the indictment was released.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u200bformer president has \u200bbeen \u200cindicted in \u200cthree other jurisdictions this year. Trump was indicted in Manhattan in \u2062March on charges related\u200d to the alleged falsification of business records, he\u200c was federally indicted in\u2064 Florida for his \u200dalleged mishandling of classified documents in June, and he was federally indicted in Washington, D.C., earlier this month for charges related to his \u2062alleged attempts to overturn \u2062the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<h2>Trump&#8217;s Future in the \u200d2024 Presidential Race<\/h2>\n<p>Trump is \u2062the front-runner in the 2024 Republican presidential primary by a large\u2062 margin. Most of his opponents\u200c in \u2064the \u200cRepublican presidential\u2064 primary have not addressed the latest Trump indictment. \u2064Winning the GOP nomination would likely lead to a 2020 election rematch against \u200cPresident Joe Biden, the \u2063front-runner on the\u2064 Democratic side.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO\u200d 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":2000859,"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-2000858","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\/2000858","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=2000858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}