President Donald Trump is asking the state of Georgia to reimburse $6.26 million in attorney fees and costs he incurred defending against his now-dismissed election interference case in the state.
In a motion filed on Jan. 7 in Fulton County Superior Court, Trump’s legal team cited a 2025 Georgia law that states that if a prosecutor is disqualified from a case because of improper conduct and the case is subsequently dismissed, defendants in that case are entitled to request “all reasonable attorney’s fees and costs incurred” in their defense.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis had indicted Trump over an alleged unlawful conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia, one of four criminal cases he faced while running for another term as president.
The Georgia Court of Appeals later disqualified Willis because of an “appearance of impropriety” stemming from her romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, whom she had hired to lead the case. The ruling was subsequently upheld by the Georgia Supreme Court.
The case formally ended in late November 2025, when the special prosecutor who took over chose not to move forward with any charges.
According to the filing, more than $2.31 million went to the law firm of Jennifer Little, Trump’s longest-serving attorney on the case. The firm of Drew Findling, who represented Trump in the case for about a year, was paid $1.46 million. The firm of Steve Sadow, who replaced Findling as lead counsel in the Georgia case, received $1.52 million.
The request will be decided by Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee. If he awards the fees and costs, the money would be paid from the budget of the Fulton County district attorney’s office.
Under the new state law, the judge is required to grant such a motion if he finds that the amount requested is “reasonable.”
Trump’s codefendants could also seek reimbursement for their own legal bills. A total of 18 people were indicted alongside Trump in August 2023, including former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Most defendants, including Trump, pleaded not guilty. Four accepted plea deals, which remain in force.
The Fulton County district attorney’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
The Georgia case was the last remaining criminal prosecution against Trump. A pair of federal cases, one focused on his actions in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol and another on his handling of classified documents, was dropped after he returned to the White House in 2025.
The fourth case, in which Trump was accused of approving a scheme to falsify business records to conceal a hush money payment to an adult film actress, concluded in January 2025, when a New York state judge sentenced him to an “unconditional discharge.” The ruling spared him any penalty, including jail time or a fine, but did not vacate his criminal conviction.
Trump has maintained his innocence in the New York state case, and his legal team is appealing to overturn the conviction.
