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Donald Trumpappeared Thursday in the Fulton County Jail on more than a dozen charges related to trying to sway the results of the 2020 Georgia election. This is the fourth case this year against the former president.
Trump spent just over 20 minutes in the Fulton County Jail where he was questioned and released on bail. According to prison records, he was 1.9 meters tall, weighed 100 kilograms, had blue eyes and blonde or brown hair. His reservation number is P01135809.
Trump's photo was released shortly after his release from prison.
Trump's delivery in Georgia marks the fourth time this year that a former president has reached out to local or federal officials following criminal charges against him - unprecedented in the US before 2023.
The scene where Trump was taken into custody and denounced the charges against him as politically motivated was replayed again Thursday, but that didn't change the unusual and unprecedented scene with the former president — and the 2024 GOP front-runner for the White House - criminal charges against him.
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In an interview with Newsmax on Thursday, Trump described his time in prison as a "horrific" and "very sad" experience, adding, "I didn't know anything about the charges my whole life and now I've been indicted about four times . "
In April, Trump was indicted in New York on state charges related to the hush money scheme. In June, he appeared in federal court in Miami, where he was charged as part of special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into the misuse of classified documents. Earlier this month, Trump was in Washington. He was detained and charged over Smith's allegations as part of an investigation into attempts to nullify the 2020 election.
All of these things could come to a head next year when Trump is running for president at the same time.
Here are the highlights of this historic day in Georgia:
Trump issued a $200,000 bond
So did most of his 18 co-defendants in the caseextensive criminal casealready out of prison, Trump was quickly examined under the settlement agreement, as the former president and his lawyers had already negotiated his consent. Trump agreed$200,000 bondand other conditions of release, including not using social media to attack co-defendants and witnesses in the case.
CNN sources say Trump covered the cost of his $200,000 bond with a 10 percent down payment and partnered with a local Atlanta bail bonds company called Foster Bail Bonds LLC.
On Thursday afternoon, Trump left his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey for Georgia, landing in Atlanta on his private jet just after 7 p.m. AND
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Trump's motorcade drove to the Fulton County Jail for his arrest. After spending about 20 minutes in jail, Trump returned to the airport where he spoke briefly with reporters before boarding the plane without answering questions.
"What happened here is a travesty of justice. We didn't do anything wrong. I didn't do anything wrong and everybody knows it," Trump said. “I've never had so much support and the same goes for others. What they are doing is meddling in the elections."
He is replacing a lawyer from Georgia
Before Trump's handoverreplaced his lead attorney in Georgia, Drew Findling, with Steven Sadow, an Atlanta attorney whose profile on the website describes him as a "high-level business firm and special defense counsel."
A Trump source said that was not Findling's performance, while another source familiar with Sadov called him "the best criminal defense attorney in Georgia."
Sadow met Trump at the Atlanta airport and escorted him to the Fulton County Jail.
The prosecutor is asking for a hearing on October 23
Early Thursday, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis requested an Oct. 23 hearing on an election tampering case she brought against Trump and 18 of his allies.
While it's too early to say whether that date is possible — or even plausible — if it were, it would be the first of four criminal trials against Trump.
Trump's lawyers told a Georgia judge Thursday that they rejected Willis' proposed trial date. They will also seek to sever his case in Georgia from co-defendant Ken Chesebro, who is seeking to expedite the case and whose request affected Willis' proposed trial date.
The timeline proposed by Willis would speed up that process. When the indictment was returned last week, he told reporters he would ask for a trial to begin within six months.
Legal experts at the time said the timeline was unconvincing, especially since Willis had also said she would like to try the 19 defendants jointly. Lawyers for Trump and his co-defendants predicted the possibility of pre-trial disputes that would prolong the trial. The three defendants are already trying to take the case to federal court, and the former president is set to file a similar motion.
Another large-scale Willis anti-extortion case suggests that such a timeline is unrealistic. The case alleging that Jeffrey Williams, rapper Young Thug and several of their associates violated Georgia's RICO Act — the main allegation in the Trump case — has moved slowly despite Williams' efforts to assert his right to a speedy trial .
Willis requested that 19 defendants be indicted next month.
Former WH chief of staff and official delivery to DOJ
Two defendants, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clarke, were acquitted by a federal judge on Wednesday.
Both Meadows and Clark agreed Thursday to post $100,000 bail set by prosecutors. Meadows surrendered and was released on bail. According to jail records, Clark turned himself in around 1 a.m. Friday.
Also Thursday, Trevian Kutti, a Georgia defendant accused of intimidating an election commission worker in Atlanta, agreed to post $75,000 bail to prosecutors before he surrenders.
Other terms of the agreement state that in case he "shall not intimidate any person whom he knows to be a co-accused or a witness," which is particularly important in the context of her plea. She was also banned from posting information about the case on social media, including Instagram.
Jail records show that Harrison Floyd, the leader of Black Voices for Trump, also turned himself in at the Fulton County Jail. He refused to agree to pretrial bail and, according to the Fulton County Sheriff's Office, was in custody until he appears before a judge within 24 hours.
County inmate records show that Georgia state Sen. Sean Steele, who participated in the fraudulent 2020 ballot, also turned himself in while in jail. After the indictment was announced, Steele's attorney Tom Bever said, "The evidence at trial will prove that Senator Steele is innocent, even though the day is long," and that "we look forward to the day in court when he clears his name of".
According to county inmate records, Trump 2020 campaign adviser Mike Roman turned himself in early Friday morning. Misty Hampton, a former election commissioner in Coffee County, Georgia, also turned herself in to the Fulton County Jail.
Detainee files show that Trump supporter Robert Chili also turned himself in on Friday. He was charged with 10 state crimes, including violating Georgia anti-crime laws, perjury and inciting an officer to violate his oath of office.
On Monday, Raffensperger was summoned to an important hearing
A hearing will be held in Meadows on Monday in the attempted Fulton County federal court case, which appears to be a major test for Willis.
On Thursday, the Fulton County District Attorney's Office subpoenaed the Georgia Secretary of State to appear in courtRaffensperger's beardFrances Watson, who served as the Secretary of State's chief investigator during the 2020 election, is set to testify.
The subpoena is one of several indications that Fulton County prosecutors are targeting Trump's January 2021 appeal, in which Trump urged Raffensperger to "find" votes to make up for his loss in the state election, the focus of the hearing. Monday morning proceedings at the Meadows. to make efforts to dismiss the Prosecutor's charges.
Meadows responded to that call and now faces charges in a Georgia election tampering case, in part for his involvement in the case.
A federal judge has scheduled a Sept. 18 hearing on Clark's request to file a Fulton County election-rigging case against him in federal court.
In Georgia, Trump faced 13 charges
Trump cardfalsely claimed to have wonafter the 2020 election and beyondtried to turn overresults in Georgia and other states.
In a series of phone calls, he pressed election officials in Georgia, including Raffensperger, to support his efforts.The election campaign of the former president is presentedbaseless complaintswho tried to overturn the results in Georgia and convince lawmakers there to reject Joe Biden's legal electoral votes andreplacewith GOP voters.
In an indictment filed last week, Willis charged Trump with 13 counts, including extortion, conspiracy charges and inducing an official to violate his oath of office.
The Georgia racketeering charges brought by Willis against all 19 defendants allege they were part of a large "criminal enterprise" that sought to sway the outcome of the Peach State's 2020 election.
When that plan didn't work, his campaign tried to create a list of fake Trump voters. And Trumpsuccumb to the pressureThen-Vice President Mike Pence will recognize these illegal GOP voters as he presides over the Electoral College's confirmation ceremony in Congress on January 6, 2021.
This story has been updated with additional events.
CNN's Holmes Lybrand, Devon Sayers, Hannah Rabinowitz, Zachary Cohen, Sara Murray, Katelyn Polantz, Katherine Sullivan and Marshall Cohen contributed to this report.