2023-08-22 00:40:31
Law enforcement officials set up media barriers outside Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia on August 21, 2023. CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP
Donald Trump himself has put an end to the suspense surrounding his first appearance before the court in Atlanta, Georgia, which will judge him later on his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in this southern state. -eastern United States.
“Can you believe it? I will be going to Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday to be ARRESTED by an EXTREME LEFT prosecutor”wrote, Monday August 21, on his social network Truth Social, the former American president who has until Friday noon (6 p.m., Paris time) to appear at the prison of the county court of Fulton, in Atlanta , the capital of Georgia.
A grand jury – a panel of citizens with investigative powers – constituted by prosecutor Fani Willis, indicted on August 14 Mr. Trump and eighteen other people in connection with this case. They are prosecuted under a law on organized crime which provides for sentences of five to twenty years in prison.
According to court documents published a few hours earlier on Monday, his lawyers agreed to pay 200,000 dollars in bail (nearly 185,000 euros) for his first hearing in this case. Four other of the defendants also agreed to post bail ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 each, allowing the defendants not to be remanded in custody, provided they violate no law, refrain from making threats and not to communicate with each other other than through their lawyers.
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“Full Lockdown”
This is the fourth criminal charge of the billionaire, who is running for the White House again and remains the favorite for the Republican primaries, even though he announced on Sunday that he would refuse to participate in the Grand Old Party debates which begin on Wednesday. .
Thursday in Atlanta, the former president may have to submit to a procedure which he had escaped during the three previous indictments: taking fingerprints and that of two photos, one from the front and the other in profile. The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Monday afternoon that when Mr. Trump goes to court, there will be a “total lock” of the area surrounding the main county jail.
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Donald Trump denies any wrongdoing and he calls the case – and the three others he faces – attempts to damage his 2024 presidential campaign. He regularly uses his Truth Social platform to speak out against prosecutors and others. people involved in his affairs, and to continue to claim, without advocating proof, that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
In a post on Monday, he describes Prosecutor Willis as “crooked, incompetent and very partisan”. He also attacks the governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp. This Republican, who pushed back against the former US president’s attempts to annul the election, recently wrote on social media that “Georgia’s 2020 election wasn’t stolen.”
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