Former US President Donald Trump (2017-2021) said on Thursday he will surrender to authorities in the state of Georgia, where he is accused of overturning the results of the 2020 election.
Trump wrote on his social network Truth Social that his “trip” to the city of Atlanta on Thursday will not be because he committed murder, but because he “made a perfect phone call.”
The former president was referring to one of the prosecution’s most important assets: the recording in which Trump asks Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to win the state.
In the publication, Trump again accused the prosecutor in charge of the case, Fani Willis, of leading a witch hunt.
It was also announced today that Donald Trump’s bail was set at $200,000 during the trial that took place in Georgia..
The bail agreement, set out in a document signed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Trump’s lawyers, prohibits Trump from harassing other suspects, witnesses or victims involved in the case, including on social media.
It says so in the order Trump cannot make any “direct or indirect threat of any kind” against witnesses or other defendants. And it explicitly includes “social media posts or reposts of posts made on social media by another individual.”
The Republican tycoon is also prohibited from communicating about the case in any way with co-defendants or witnesses, except through attorneys.
Willis founded the deadline until Friday afternoon (5 p.m. in Lisbon), for Trump and the remaining 18 defendants to turn themselves in at the Fulton County Jail to be notified.
The prosecutor suggested that the reading of the indictment to the defendants would take place the week of September 5 and that the case would go to trial in March.
Trump is accused of trying to provoke fraud with the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia, following investigations led by prosecutor Fani Willis, which have lasted more than two years.
The former president faces 13 charges, including violation of an anti-corruption law, which, if confirmed, carries a prison sentence.
The suspects also include his former personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows.
Trump had already received four charges for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, and in this process, Special Counsel Jack Smith proposed that the trial be started in January 2024, a few days before the start of the Republican primary.
In New York, Donald Trump faces 34 charges of falsifying commercial documents in a case involving pornographic actress Stormy Daniels, with whom the former president had an affair in 2006, and is expected to appear in court on March 25.
In Florida, the Republican has filed 40 charges for theft and keeping confidential documents. He is due to appear in court on May 20, a few months before the 2024 presidential election.
Source: DN
