Finally, as he had agreed with Justice, Donald Trump turned himself in on Thursday to the Georgia State Police, where he is prosecuted on charges of having tried to alter the results of the 2020 elections, and was released on bail after paying $200,000, local press reported.
The former president of the United States complied in this way with the arrangement that he had reached through his lawyers to appear before the courts.
In a process that lasted less than half an hour, Trump was booked into the Fulton County jail, in the city of Atlanta -capital of Georgia-, where it was found that he measures 1.92 meters and weighs 97.5 kilograms, and was He took the requisite photograph for the dossier, Sheriff Patrick Labat reported, according to CNN.
Why are they investigating Donald Trump?
This case investigates Trump’s performance at the head of a criminal organization to alter the vote count for the 2020 presidential elections.
Prosecutor Fani Willis ordered that both Trump and the other people charged in this process turn themselves in before noon on Friday, with a view to continuing to move forward and that the possible trial be held in March 2024.
This case adds a new judicial front to the former president, immersed in the campaign for the Republican Party primaries.
On August 2, the special prosecutor jack smith He accused him of trying to change the result of the 2020 presidential elections in the weeks before hundreds of his supporters attacked the Capitol when Joe Biden’s victory was certified on January 6, 2021.
In another case that is being investigated in Miami, Florida, He was charged by a federal court in June with “withholding classified documents” and “obstructing a federal investigation” for taking boxes full of official White House documents upon leaving office.
Rudolph Giuliani
Before Trump, Rudolph Giuliani had done the same, who served as lawyer of the tycoon Giuliani turned himself in Wednesday at a county jail Fulton, Georgia to face state criminal charges related to the attempt to reverse the electoral defeat of the former US president 2020.
Giuliani, A former federal prosecutor and mayor of New York, he was ordered to post $150,000 bail and not to intimidate any of the 18 co-defendants or witnesses in the case, according to court documents.
“This accusation is a travesty,” Giuliani said. journalists after his appearance in prison. “It is an assault on the Constitution.”
The former organized crime prosecutor played a prominent public role in the Trump campaign’s efforts to push false allegations of widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
In Georgia, Giuliani was charged with making numerous false statements about voter fraud.even to officials in other states such as Arizona and Pennsylvania, in a failed attempt to convince them to approve an alternative list of voters for formal certification to Congress of the results to keep Trump in power.
Source: Ambito
