Fulton County Clerk Ché Alexander put out a statement on Tuesday, admitting that she accidentally posted, then deleted, a document to the court’s website on Monday that listed charges for Donald Trump well before a grand jury voted to indict the former president.
On Monday, after the bombshell filing was quickly spotted by Reuters then removed, Alexander’s office called it a “fictitious document” and admonished media outlets for sharing it. But on Tuesday, Alexander clarified that document was actually a “trial run” for the impending indictment that came several hours later.
“In anticipation of issues that arise with entering a potentially large indictment, Alexander used charges that pre-exist in Odyssey [court software] to test the system and conduct a trial run,” the release said. “Unfortunately, the sample working document led to the docketing of what appeared to be an indictment, but which was, in fact, only a fictitious docket sheet.”
