Trump’s surrender: Donald Trump turned himself in Thursday at the Fulton County jail on more than a dozen charges stemming from his efforts to reverse Georgia’s 2020 election results, marking the fourth time this year the former president has faced criminal charges.
Historic mug shot: Trump was booked as inmate No. P01135809 and became the first former president with a mug shot. As he departed Georgia, Trump slammed the case and denied any wrongdoing.
Friday deadline: Trump and the 18 co-defendants face a noon ET Friday deadline to voluntarily surrender after being criminally charged in the state’s 2020 election subversion case. Trump is accused in the indictment of being the head of a “criminal enterprise” that was part of a broad conspiracy to overturn his electoral defeat.
Proposed trial date: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is asking for the trial of all 19 people to begin on October 23, an extremely ambitious schedule. Trump opposes the proposed trial date, his attorneys said this afternoon.
Donald Trump has departed Atlanta after surrendering at the Fulton County jail on more than a dozen charges stemming from his efforts to reverse Georgia’s 2020 election results, the fourth time this year the former president has faced criminal charges.
In all, the former president was in Atlanta for more than an hour and a half. “I did nothing wrong,” Trump told reporters before boarding the plane. Trump described the criminal case against him as “a travesty of justice.”
Later Thursday, he told the right-wing network Newsmax that being at Fulton County jail was “a “terrible experience.”
“I came in, I was treated very nicely,” he said of his booking experience. “It is what it is. I took a mug shot, which I’d never heard the words mug shot.”
Jail records show the former president was placed under arrest and booked at the Fulton County jail on Thursday night.
He was booked as inmate No. P01135809.
The jail record shows that Trump is 6 foot 3 inches tall and weighs 215 pounds. He is listed as having blue eyes and blonde or strawberry hair.
Ahead of the surrender, Trump had agreed to a $200,000 bond and other release conditions, including not using social media to intimidate co-defendants or witnesses in the case.
So far, a total of 12 defendants including Trump have surrendered. Trump and 10 co-defendants are now out on bail. One defendant, Harrison Floyd, is still in custody.
The remaining seven co-defendants have until noon ET on Friday to turn themselves in.
Without referencing today’s events in Fulton County, President Joe Biden’s campaign sent a fundraising email.
“I think today’s a great day to give to my campaign,” the email read.
The subject line reads: “Apropos of nothing.”
Earlier Thursday Trump surrendered at the Fulton County jail on more than a dozen charges stemming from his efforts to reverse Georgia’s 2020 election results, the fourth time this year the former president has faced criminal charges.
Trump posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, for the first time since 2021
Former President Donald Trump has posted for the first time on X, formerly known as Twitter, since the final days of his term in office.
The post, which included his mug shot, contains the same message he posted earlier tonight on Truth Social, showing his mug shot with the words “ELECTION INTERFERENCE” and “NEVER SURRENDER!” below it.
In a fund-raising note he shared on both platforms, the former president wrote:
“Today, at the notoriously violent jail in Fulton County, Georgia, I was ARRESTED despite having committed NO CRIME,” Trump wrote. “But today, I walked into the lion’s den with one simple message on behalf of our entire movement: I WILL NEVER SURRENDER OUR MISSION TO SAVE AMERICA.”
Until tonight, Trump’s previous post still visible on X, then known as Twitter, was to say on January 8, 2021, that he would not be attending the inauguration of President Joe Biden. That same day, Trump was suspended by the platform “due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” Twitter said.
The Trump account was restored in November of 2022 by Elon Musk, who took over the social platform.
Trump’s campaign is also selling T-shirts with the former president’s mug shot and “NEVER SURRENDER!” printed on them as the campaign continues to fundraise off the arrest.
