The former president of the United States Donald Trump confirmed this Monday in a message on social networks that this coming Thursday will be handed over to the authorities in the state of Georgia, where he is indicted for allegedly trying to reverse the results of the 2020 elections.
Trump wrote in a message on his social network, Truth Social, that his “trip” on Thursday to the city of Atlanta it will not be for committing any murder but for “making A PERFECT CALL”.
BREAKING: Donald Trump says he will surrender to authorities in Georgia on Thursday to face charges of illegally scheming to overturn the 2020 election. https://t.co/pLkUPY3ako
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 22, 2023
The former president was referring to one of the main charges of the accusation: the recording in which Trump asks the Secretary of State of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, to “find” enough votes to win in the state.
In his message on Monday, The former president charged again against the prosecutor in charge of the case, Fani Willis, whom he accused, as he usually does, of leading a witch hunt against him.
This Monday it was also known that Trump will have to pay a bail of 200,000 dollars to avoid jail after his indictment in the state.
The payment of that bond will allow the Republican to regain his freedom once he has turned himself in at the Fulton County (Georgia) prison.
Four charges against Trump
Trump was indicted last week on 13 counts by a Georgia grand jury for attempting to rig the results of the 2020 state election.where the incumbent, Joe Biden, won by a narrow margin.
Among the crimes he is accused of is violating the RICO law, commonly used against mafia bosses, which could lead to several years in prison if proven during the trial.
This is Trump’s fourth criminal indictment. Two weeks ago he was indicted by a Washington DC grand jury on four charges for allegedly trying to reverse the result of the 2020 US elections and encouraging the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
In addition, in New York, Trump has been charged with 34 charges for payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels, with whom he had an “affair” in the past, to buy his silence during the 2016 election campaign.
The other criminal case is in Florida, where he is accused of 40 counts of illegally stealing and keeping classified documents that he took from the White House in his Mar-a-Lago mansion.
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