Mr Trump has pleaded not guilty to the charges over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Former president Donald Trump will not seek to get his Georgia election interference case transferred to federal court, his attorneys said in a filing on Thursday.
“President Trump now notifies the court that he will NOT be seeking to remove his case to federal court,” the notice states. Mr Trump, though, is still making arguments in the state court case that he cannot be prosecuted because of his federal position. A venue change would not have meant that Mr Trump — if he is re-elected in 2024 — or another president would have been able to issue a pardon because any conviction would still happen under state law.
That would have given prosecutors a chance to question him under cross-examination, and anything he said could have been used in an eventual trial.
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