President Donald Trump’s legal team on Wednesday sought to recoup millions in legal fees he incurred in a Georgia election interference court case.
If the motion filed in Fulton County is approved by Judge Scott McAfee, Trump will be reimbursed for roughly $6.2 million he paid to eight firms that handled his defense in the 2020 election racketeering case brought by District Attorney Fani Willis, which was dismissed on Nov. 26, 2025.
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“In accordance with Georgia law, President Trump has moved the Court to award reasonable attorney fees and costs incurred in his defense of the politically motivated, and now rightfully dismissed, case brought by disqualified DA Fani Willis,” Steve Sadow, Trump’s lead attorney in Georgia, told NBC News.
The development responds to a new bill Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) signed into law that allows defendants to recover “all reasonable attorney’s fees and costs” when a prosecutor is disqualified for improper conduct, and the case is later dismissed.
Under the law, each defendant has 45 days from the date of dismissal to file a claim seeking reimbursement for “reasonable attorney’s fees and costs,” meaning Trump’s action on Wednesday came just three days before the deadline.
The law was pursued by Georgia Republicans with Trump in mind. The election interference case was dismissed by a judge last year after Willis was disqualified for hiring special prosecutor Nathan Wade — with whom she had a romantic relationship — to help litigate the president.
Willis “began a politically motivated, lengthy investigation in February 2021,” and Trump is now entitled to recover fees fighter her because of DA’s disqualification from the case,” the new court filings claim.
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Trump was one of 19 defendants indicted in the Fulton County case in 2023, after a more than two-year investigation by Willis. Others charged with unlawfully seeking to change the outcome of the 2020 election included Trump’s former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
The president pardoned his fellow defendants last November, though the move was viewed as largely symbolic, since such actions apply only to federal offenses.