Aisha Bakshi

That case never went to trial for the president.

It has now been dropped.

There's a little bit of a backstory around that involving the lead prosecutor.

But another reason it was dropped has to do with the fact that Donald Trump won the 2024 election.

And a prosecutor who took over this case decided that that would push this case out by many years.

And that was a reason to just drop the charges entirely.

But Trump did try very much to overturn the Georgia election results.

That state only had 16 presidential electoral votes.

That wouldn't have been nearly enough for Donald Trump to have reversed the overall national election results because Joe Biden won that election by winning several swing states, not just Georgia.

This is a bit of a tricky question.

I've spent some time looking into it.

Basically, for most federal statutes, you have a five-year statute of limitations.

What that refers to is for a lot of different crimes, prosecutors only have a limited window in which they can bring those charges.

And as you pointed out, the election was more than five years ago.

But if you look at the search warrant and the particular crimes that it looks like the FBI is, potential crimes that the FBI is looking into, one of them, that one about preserving records for 22 months,

That would mean that someone could have hypothetically committed a crime by failing to preserve records anytime up to at least a significant part of 2022.

And then if you apply the five-year statute of limitations from then, that means that the federal government could have until 2027.

to bring charges for that kind of hypothetical crime.

When it comes to the separate criminal statute that was cited in the warrant, that has to do with this idea that someone may have engaged in threats or coercion or fraud related to the voting process or vote counting process in the 2020 election.

That's where it seems to get a bit more complicated about how the government can be saying that