The former U.S. president and four-time impeachment president announced he was turning himself in to Georgia early Tuesday as he faces a felony charge of altering election results in the state through coercion and fraud amid his legal troubles. are facing charges.
In an announcement on his social media platform Truth Social on Monday, Donald Trump said he would be arrested that day by “a radical left-wing district attorney, Fanny Willis,” an official in Georgia who A fourth indictment was filed against the 77-year-old.
Earlier, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfeen approved a $200,000 bond for the Republican presidential bid in a case filed in the state.
The first US president to face criminal charges and 18 other co-defendants have until Friday to turn themselves in at the landmark trial.
In his post, Trump said Willis is “working in tight coordination with Crooked Joe Biden’s [Department of Justice] DOJ. This is about election meddling.”
He has been reiterating since he was first indicted in April in a case related to payments to an adult movie star, the charges against him being a witch hunt. The goal was to knock him out of the race.
In addition to the $200,000 bond for the Republican billionaire, Judge McAfee imposed several conditions in the deal approved by prosecutors and Trump’s lawyers.
“The defendant will do nothing to intimidate or otherwise obstruct the administration of justice,” McAfee said in the three-page court filing.
“The foregoing shall include, but not be limited to, posts on social media or re-posts of another person’s posts on social media,” the judge said.
McAfee set bond at $100,000 for two co-defendants in the case — former Trump campaign attorneys John Eastman and Kenneth Chesbrough.
Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis has asked a judge to set a trial date of March 4 next year for the Republican presidential candidate accused of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
The 77-year-old faces four criminal charges as he bids to return to the White House.
Trump was indicted in Georgia on charges of fraud and election crimes after a two-year wide-ranging investigation into his efforts to overturn his election loss to incumbent Democrat Joe Biden in the Peach State.
Others facing alleged conspiracy charges include the four-time indicted former president’s former personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and his White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows.
Trial date for Donald Trump
Special counsel Jack Smith has asked a federal judge to set a date of January 2, 2024, for the former president to stand trial in Washington on separate charges of conspiring to tamper with the results of the 2020 election.
Trump’s lawyers asked Judge Tanya Chitkin last week to schedule the trial for April 2026 — well after next year’s presidential vote.
He was of the view that the amount of documents in the case would take months to process.
Smith said in a court filing Monday that Trump’s defense team “overstates the challenge of reviewing” the evidence presented in the case.
“A proposed trial date in 2026 would deny the public its right to a speedy trial,” the special counsel said.
Chitkin is scheduled to decide on a trial date at a hearing on August 28.
Trump also faces trial in New York in March 2024 for paying hush money to a porn star to cheat campaign finance laws ahead of the 2016 election.
He is scheduled to go on trial in May in Florida on charges that Smith mishandled top secret government documents taken from the White House when he left office.
