WASHINGTON —
Former President Trump gaveup to authorities in Georgia on Thursday night after being prosecuted last week and implicated of conspiring with allies to reverse the 2020 election that he lost to Joe Biden.
After turning himself in at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Trump was reserved and photographed — something that did not takeplace in the other 3 jurisdictions in which he hasactually been prosecuted — making him the veryfirst previous U.S. president to get a mug shot. His scheduling record noted his height as 6 feet, 3 inches and his weight as 215 pounds. His $200,000 bond was set by a judge and made public Monday.
Trump and 18 others were charged last week in a sweeping 41-count indictment that declared they were included in a conspiracy to weaken the results of the governmental election in Fulton County, somewhereelse in Georgia and in other states by deceptive citizens, the courts and state and federal legislators about the result in order to keep Trump in power. Trump dealswith 13 different counts in the case.
The examination by Fulton County Dist. Atty. Fani Willis started in February 2021 after a recording was launched of the previous president pushing Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger throughout a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call to “find” him 11,780 votes, sufficient to win in Georgia. The state had accredited the results weeks priorto after performing 3 states. Trump has firmlyinsisted that, as president, he acted properly in making the call.
As a condition of his bond, Trump hasactually been advised to not make direct or indirect hazards — consistingof through social media — versus capacity witnesses, victims or the unindicted co-conspirators discussed, however not called, in the indictment. He is likewise disallowed from interacting about the realities of the case with any understood witnesses otherthan through legal counsel.
Before leaving for Georgia from his Bedminster, N.J., house, Trump stated in a post on his Truth Social platform that he was being jailed “for A PERFECT PHONE CALL, and having the audacity to obstacle a RIGGED & STOLEN ELECTION. THE EVIDENCE IS IRREFUTABLE!”
Trump changed up his legal group Thursday as well, employing veteran Atlanta defense lawyer Steve Sadow as lead lawyer in the case in location of Drew Findling. Sadow hasactually been important of Georgia’s racketeering law in the previous, which is wider than the