Amelia Lewis

Look, a confidential source whose name is Ashley Merchant tells me that that giant podium there was something that she rented, especially for this occasion, and continued to rent it thereafter until eventually one was purchased.

And also that giant seal that says district attorney on it, that was something that was also, as I understand, was...

sort of custom made for the occasion.

So the whole thing just reeked of theatrics from the beginning.

With the massage partners?

Well, so this is called a null process, that's Latin for dismissal, and it applies to every remaining defendant who did not take a plea deal.

So all the cases are officially dismissed, not just Trump, all of them.

Theoretically, in Georgia, after this null process or this type of dismissal,

And a charge can be re-brought within six months.

However, as we now have seen, there's no other prosecutor in the state of Georgia that's able or willing to take the case, according to the Prosecuting Attorneys Council.

And let me just say, Pete Skandalakis is somebody I've known professionally for many, many years.

He is, I would say, politically a moderate, but he's always struck me as a straight shooter, right?

He calls it as he sees it.

And he wrote a rather long opinion that he filed with this dismissal that explained his reasoning, but at the end of the day,

It's just a matter of, look, he thinks this thing needs some finality.

There's no other prosecutor that wants to take it.

It's not feasible for the PAC to do it, even though they can.

So no other prosecutor is able to do it.

No other prosecutor can do it.

He's not going to appoint another prosecutor.