Former President Donald Trump made history Thursday, becoming the first current or former president of the United States to receive his mugshot while detained in an Atlanta jail for his attempts to reverse the results of the 2020 Georgia election.
Trump, 77, turned himself in to authorities at the Fulton County Jail following his indictment before a grand jury on Aug. 14 on charges including extortion, conspiracy, making false statements and soliciting a public official to violate his oath. in office.
He was released on $200,000 bail and accepted an order limiting his ability to post on social media about witnesses or co-defendants in the case.
Being mugged was “not a comfortable feeling, especially when you haven’t done anything wrong,” the former commanding officer told Fox News Digital hours later.
“They insisted that they take a mugshot of me and I agreed to do it,” he added. “This is the only time I’ve ever taken a mugshot.”
Trump was booked by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday. PA
Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, said earlier this month that the decision to take a mugshot of the former president was “a bit of an ego trip” on the part of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
“The purpose of a mugshot is when you don’t recognize someone, you think they’re a flight risk,” Habba told Fox News. “This man is the most famous person in the world, the leader [Republican] candidate right now.
The 41-count indictment also charges 18 other Trump allies and supporters, including attorneys Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis and Kenneth Chesebro, all of whom turned themselves in this week for booking.
The lawyers were joined by Republican poll watcher Scott Hall, former Coffee County Republican Chairwoman Cathy Latham, former Georgia State Senator David Shafer and Georgia attorney Ray Smith.
Bonuses were set at $100,000 for Eastman, Powell, Ellis, and Chesebro; $75,000 for Latham; $75,000 for Shafer; and $50,000 for Smith.
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows turned himself in hours before his former boss on Thursday and was released on $100,000 bail.
Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark and Trump’s 2020 Election Day Director of Operations Michael Roman also turned themselves in to authorities overnight in Fulton County.
Trump supporters protest near the entrance to the Fulton County Jail ahead of Trump’s arrival August 24, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
A protester calling for Trump’s arrest stands next to a Trump supporter wearing a t-shirt with a mock mug shot of Trump on it. REUTERS/Dustin Chambers
Authorities erect barricades outside the Fulton County jail ahead of Trump’s arrival. AP Photo/Brynn Anderson
Meadows and Clark requested that their surrender be postponed until a separate request to have the case transferred to federal court is heard.
US District Court Judge Steven Jones denied both requests on Wednesday.
Attorneys Ray Smith and Robert Cheeley, Shawn Still, former Black Voices for Trump CEO Harrison Floyd, and former Coffee County official Misty Hampton also turned themselves in Thursday. The other co-defendants, Illinois pastor Stephen Lee and former Kanye West publicist Trevian Kutti, have until noon Friday to turn themselves in.
Mugshot of Rudy Giuliani after turning himself in to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office. Fulton County Sheriff’s Office/Handout via REUTERS
Mugshot of Mark Meadows after turning himself in to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office.via REUTERS
Mugshot of Harrison Floyd after turning himself in to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office. FULTON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE/AFP via Getty Images
Mugshot of Kenneth Chesebro after turning himself in to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office. FULTON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE/AFP via Getty Images
Mugshot of Scott Hall after turning himself in to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office. FULTON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE/AFP via Getty Images
Mugshot of Sidney Powell after turning himself in at the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office. FULTON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE/AFP via Getty Images
Mugshot of John Eastman after turning himself in to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office.AP
Mugshot of Ray Smith after turning himself in to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office. FULTON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE/AFP via Getty Images
Mugshot of Jenna Ellis after turning herself in at the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office. FULTON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE/AFP via Getty Images
Mugshot of David Shafer after turning himself in to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office. FULTON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE/AFP via Getty Images
Mugshot of Cathleen Latham after turning herself in at the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office. FULTON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE/AFP via Getty Images
Willis has requested a trial date for the case on March 4, 2024.
The 19 defendants were charged with violating Georgia’s Singer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a version of a statute Giuliani used to bring down mob members while he was a federal prosecutor in the 1980s. .
Trump insists that they “did nothing wrong at all.”
“This is about election interference,” he told Fox News Digital on Thursday. “It all comes through Washington, the Department of Justice and corrupt Joe Biden; Nothing like this had ever happened in our country before.
“We didn’t do anything wrong at all. And we have every right, every right, to challenge an election that we consider dishonest, that we consider very dishonest.”
The Georgia indictment is the fourth brought against the 45th president so far this year, following federal cases over his alleged efforts to nullify the 2020 election in Washington, D.C., and his alleged mishandling of classified documents in South Florida. Florida.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg also accused Trump of allegedly falsifying business records to conceal payments of “hush money” to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election in order to silence her about an alleged decade-long adventure.
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