The judge set Trump’s bail at $200,000. He is likely to get out of jail soon.
Former President Trump turned himself in on Thursday night at the Fulton County jail in Atlanta, Georgia. He was charged with 13 counts after a state investigation found that he tried to change the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state.
The bail for Trump was set at $200,000. He was quickly checked out and sent on his way.
According to his jail records, Trump is 6 feet, 3 inches tall and weighs 215 pounds. The reports show he has “Blonde or Strawberry” hair and blue eyes.
Fox News Digital has heard that he will be formally charged early next month. At that time, he is expected to plead not guilty.
Trump had to get a picture of his ID. During processing, photos were also taken of former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, and others who were charged due to the investigation by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
Trump was charged with one count of breaking the Georgia RICO Act, three counts of criminal solicitation, six counts of criminal plot, one count of filing fake papers, and two counts of making false claims.
In the Fulton County investigation, Trump and more than a dozen other people were charged, including his former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and his former lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro, Jeff Clark, and John Eastman.
After being processed at the Fulton County Jail on Thursday night, Trump told reporters on the tarmac in Atlanta, Georgia, that it is “a very sad day for America.”
“This never should have happened. “If you want to contest an election, you should be able to,” Trump said. “I thought the election was rigged, that it was stolen. I had every right to think that.” As you know, you’ve seen a lot of people, like Hillary Clinton, Stacey Abrams, and many others, do the same thing over the years.
He also said, “You have to be able to challenge when you have that much freedom, or else you’ll have very dishonest elections.”
Trump said that what happened in Georgia was “a travesty of justice.”
“We didn’t do anything bad. Nothing I did was wrong. “Everyone knows that,” he said, adding that he has “never had such support.”
Trump said that “the other ones,” which he meant to mean Democrats, are “meddling in elections and trying to meddle in elections.”
He said that nothing like it had ever happened in our country before. “This is how they run for office.”
Trump said that the case in Fulton County is “one example, but you have three other examples.” He talked about the three other criminal charges he faces, one from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and two from Special Counsel Jack Smith.
“It is meddling in the election,” he said. “We didn’t do anything wrong. We have every right to question an election we think is dishonest, even if we think it is very dishonest.”
Willis asked the Fulton County court on Thursday to set a trial date for October 23 for Trump and the other 18 suspects. The move came after the suspect, Kenneth Chesebro, asked for a hearing to happen quickly.
The judge agreed to try Chesebro on October 23, but only because he was the only one who asked for a quick trial.
In the meantime, Trump hired Steven Sadow, a white-collar defense lawyer from Atlanta, to defend him in the Fulton County case. Drew Findling had been his lawyer in this case, but Sadow will take his place. Someone close to Fox News Digital said Findling no longer works for Trump.
Sadow said, “I have been hired to defend President Trump in the Fulton County, Georgia case.” “The President should have never been charged with a crime. He is not guilty of any of the charges against him.
Sadow said, “We are looking forward to the case being dropped or, if that doesn’t happen, to a fair and open-minded jury finding the President not guilty.” Our legal system shouldn’t be used to help the President’s political opponents reach their goals or further their careers.
Trump was charged with a crime in Georgia for the fourth time. He is the first past President in U.S. history to be accused of a crime.
Trump was first charged in March after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg spent years looking into hush-money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign.
After Georgia charged Trump, his bond was set at $200,000. He will be processed on Thursday.
Bragg said that Trump “repeatedly and dishonestly falsified New York business records to hide criminal behavior that kept voters in the dark about damaging information during the 2016 presidential election.”
Trump pleaded not guilty to all 34 counts of first-degree crime forging business records in New York.
Bragg made these claims while Special Counsel Jack Smith examined whether Trump kept secret records from his time in office at his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla.
Trump said he wasn’t guilty of all 37 criminal charges from that investigation. The charges include knowingly keeping knowledge about national defense, plotting to get in the way of the law, and making false statements.
In a new warrant from Smith’s probe, Trump was charged with an additional count of intentional retention of national defense information and two other counts of obstruction last month, on July 27.
Smith was also looking into whether Trump was behind the riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and whether he tried to change the results of the 2020 election.
As a result of Smith’s investigation, Trump was charged with four federal crimes on August 1.
Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges, which included a plot to cheat the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction and trying to block an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.