Trump turned himself into the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta on Thursday night on costs related to a plot to overturn the 2020 elections. This comes simply days after the disgraced former Republican president introduced on social media that he would accomplish that.
Trump arrived in Atlanta round 7 p.m. ET by way of personal aircraft after departing from Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport just a few hours earlier. He was staying at his golf membership in Bedminster, New Jersey. He arrived on the Fulton County Jail round 7:30 p.m
Shortly after arriving on the jail, Trump was rapidly processed, fingerprinted and a mugshot was taken, a primary for the previous president, who has beforehand appeared at three completely different amenities for different prison costs.
Trump spent 20 minutes within the Fulton County Jail and was launched from custody round 8 p.m. ET, in line with NBC Information. The previous president was booked on greater than a dozen costs, together with racketeering and conspiracy costs associated to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
In line with CNN, earlier this week, Trump agreed to a $200,000 bond and different circumstances following his launch, which embrace not using social media to assault witnesses and co-defendants within the case.
Final week, a grand jury issued an indictment for Trump and 18 co-defendants and charged them with 41 prison counts for his or her roles within the 2020 presidential election scheme. The co-defendants embrace Trump’s former White Home chief of employees Mark Meadows and his legal professional, Rudy Giuliani.
In a shock flip of occasions, Trump employed new authorized illustration simply hours earlier than his give up. He changed his legal professional, Drew Findling, with Steven Sadow, who beforehand represented rapper Younger Thug in a high-profile RICO case.
Sadow launched a press release shortly after Trump retained him and stated, “The president ought to by no means have been indicted. He’s harmless of all the costs introduced in opposition to him.”
“We look ahead to the case being dismissed or, if mandatory, an unbiased, open-minded jury discovering the president not responsible,” he added.
Trump and his co-defendants have maintained that the costs they face are politically motivated, regardless of proof introduced within the practically 100-page indictment that implies in any other case.
In line with CBS Information, Fulton County District Legal professional Fani Willis has set Trump’s trial date for Oct. 23.
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