2023-08-24 21:50:41
The event promises to be one of those historical sequences that keep the country in suspense: following having escaped it during his three previous criminal indictments, this time he risks not cutting the infamous ritual of the mugshot, the taking a mug shot, a first for a former US president.
“Another sad day in America,” Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform shortly before leaving for Atlanta, the state capital. He had previously indicated through the same channel that he would officially surrender at 7:30 p.m. “for having had the audacity to contest a rigged and stolen election”.
The Republican primary favorite’s stint to retake the White House in 2024 through Fulton County Jail, or Rice Street Jail, is expected to be brief, however.
Like ten of the eleven defendants in this case who have already surrendered, barring unforeseen circumstances, Donald Trump will be free on bail – set for him at $200,000.
He was preceded Thursday in this overcrowded and notoriously unsanitary establishment, watched by the media from all over the world, camping for several days in large tents, by his last chief of staff, Mark Meadows, released on a bond of 100,000 dollars. Another defendant, Harrison Floyd, was on the other hand placed in detention on Thursday, for lack of agreement on bail.
The day before, the ex-lawyer of Donald Trump and former mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani had also made himself available to the authorities, qualifying the lawsuits brought by the county prosecutor of Fulton, Fani Willis, of “attack once morest the Constitution”.
On August 14, a grand jury assembled by the prosecutor indicted Donald Trump and 18 others with unlawful attempts to reverse the result of the 2020 election, won in this key state by current Democratic President Joe Biden. .
Several defendants argue that these lawsuits amount to “criminalizing” freedom of expression in electoral disputes.
Viral Mugshots
All those who pushed the door of the prison, some in the middle of the night, saw their passage immortalized and their mugshot circulating in a loop on television and on social networks. The rules in force also provide for the taking of fingerprints.
The two prison entrances had been closed to traffic since Thursday morning, with the exception of law enforcement vehicles. At one of the entrances, officers in bulletproof vests were waiting in a pick-up truck.
Ahead of his arrival, Mr. Trump officially changed the head of his team of attorneys in Georgia on Thursday. No explanation was given for the replacement of Drew Findling by Steven Sadow, a tenor of the Atlanta bar, both accustomed to defending celebrities.
But Steven Sadow has in the past criticized the law on organized crime used by the prosecutor to jointly charge the 19 defendants, and which provides for sentences of five to 20 years in prison.
The 19 defendants have until Friday noon to present themselves to the authorities.
They are expected to return to Atlanta, this time in court, the week of September 5, presumably to announce whether or not they plead guilty.
Donald Trump is the subject of four criminal charges, two at the federal level, in Washington and Florida (southeast), one in New York State and one in Georgia.
The legal clouds may be gathering, but each twist brings him millions of dollars in donations, paid by Trumpists convinced that he is the victim of a “witch hunt” engineered by the Biden administration to remove him from the presidential.
This passage of Mr. Trump in Georgia comes the day following the first debate of the Republican primaries, organized Wednesday evening in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (north).
He considered himself exempted from participating because of his spectacular lead over his rivals in the polls, preferring to speak in a river interview with Tucker Carlson, former star host of the conservative channel Fox News, broadcast on X (ex-Twitter) at the same time.
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