Aug 25 – Former US President Donald Trump surrendered at a Georgia county jail in an alleged racketeering attempt to alter the state’s vote count in the 2020 presidential election.
Trump was detained and later freed on bail.
The former President, like some of the 18 co-accused who had surrendered and everyone else who went through this process, was forced to pose for the procedural mugshot.
In September, he will be arraigned, which will be his first court appearance in this case. Unlike the previous three cases in which he was arrested and released, the proceedings will be broadcast live, as is customary.
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In the first case, he is accused of manipulating business papers in order to pay hush money to an adult film performer. It is a state matter.
The second and third are federal cases charging him with mishandling confidential papers (being tried in Florida) and involvement in the January 6 attempt to prevent the US Congress from certifying Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 Presidential election (being litigated in Washington D.C.). Georgia is the fourth such instance.
Among Trump’s 18 co-accused are his former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, and a slew of lawyers.
Trump is facing a total of 91 counts. But he does not appear to be intimidated by any of them, at least not publicly, and he has utilised them to support his third presidential campaign. He has raised millions of dollars by portraying the cases as politically motivated efforts by the Biden administration to prevent him from running for President.
The former President leads the Republican primary race by a wide margin and skipped the first of eight primary debates in Milwaukee on Wednesday, which featured two Indian-Americans, Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy, as well as Florida Governor Ron Desantis, who is in second place.
