Georgia counties are suing Trump for legal fees following his failed voter fraud lawsuits

It said the claims “were found to be procedurally deficient, factually unsupported, or both” and said the fees represented “just a fraction” of the fees incurred by a total of 15 counties who also faced lawsuits.

“Given the number of failed lawsuits filed by the former President and his campaign, [Mr Trump and others] apparently believed that they could file their baseless and legally deficient actions with impunity, with no regard for the costs extracted from the taxpayers’ coffers or the consequences to the democratic foundations of our country,” Cobb County’s motion stated.

DeKalb County’s motion states that it had spent more than $US6000 defending itself against “unsubstantiated and frivolous claims” of state law violations, voter fraud, absentee ballot processing and other unproven allegations.

The legal action was also filed against Georgia’s state election board, secretary of state Brad Raffensperger and 13 other county election supervisors, KITV reported.

Cobb County’s motion stated that Mr Trump and Mr Shafer “brought this election contest against Georgia’s Secretary of State and the members of the State Elections Board seeking to overturn the votes of millions of Georgians”.

The case was thrown out in January, the Hill reported, days after Mr Trump was caught on tape pressuring Mr Raffensperger to “find” additional votes for him.

“We have at least, anywhere from 250 to 300,000 ballots were dropped mysteriously into the rolls,“ Mr Trump told Raffensperger in the leaked phone call.

“I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state, and flipping the state is a great testament to our country,“ Mr Trump said.

Mr Raffensperger has reportedly initiated an investigation into Mr Trump’s efforts to overturn the election result in Georgia.

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