Georgia court clerk cops to early release of Trump charges: ‘I am human’
By Ryan King
August 16, 2023 4:34pm
The Atlanta court clerk whose office posted a list of charges against former President Donald Trump hours before a grand jury approved them belatedly took responsibility for the embarrassing “mishap” Wednesday.
“I am human,” Fulton County Clerk of Superior and Magistrate Courts Ché Alexander told local station WSB-TV.
A list of 13 counts to be brought against Trump, 77, was posted on the court’s website at around noon Monday and quickly taken down — but not before being spotted by Reuters, which published the document.
Alexander’s office issued an initial statement Monday afternoon calling the document “fictitious.”
“That was the best word that I could come up with,” Alexander explained Wednesday. “It was fictitious. It wasn’t real. It didn’t have a stamp on it.”
In the end, the grand jury approved the exact counts against Trump that had been on the prematurely posted docket, causing an uproar among the former president’s supporters.
“The Fulton County District Attorney’s Office has once again shown that they have no respect for the integrity of the grand jury process,” charged defense attorneys Drew Findling and Jennifer Little.
“This was not a simple administrative mistake. A proposed indictment should only be in the hands of the District Attorney’s Office, yet it somehow made its way to the clerk’s office and was assigned a case number and a judge before the grand jury even deliberated. This is emblematic of the pervasive and glaring constitutional violations which have plagued this case from its very inception.”
According to Alexander, she was under pressure to ensure everything went smoothly and decided to attempt a “dry run” to ensure any potential indictment was posted on the website as soon as possible.
“I did a work sample in the system. And when I hit save, it went to the press queue,” she told the outlet. “And that’s how the mishap happened.”
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