Donald Trump announced that he will surrender on Thursday in Georgia to answer charges of racketeering and other offences related to his attempt to rig the 2020 election.
Trump, who launched the fourth charge against the former president this year, wrote on his platform Truth Social on Monday that he will be “ARRESTED by a Radical Left District Attorney, Fani Willis,” the Georgia official.
A $200,000 bond for Trump was previously approved by the court in the racketeering case brought against him in the southern state.
The deadline for Trump and the 18 additional co-defendants in the historic case to surrender and be booked in Georgia is Friday at noon (1600 GMT).
In his article, Trump claimed that Willis was working “exactly in coordination” with Crooked Joe Biden’s Department of Justice. The topic is “election interference.”
This is Trump’s way of claiming that the accusations against him are all fabrications designed to derail his drive for reelection as president, even though he is by far the front-runner among the Republican candidates.
In a deal endorsed by prosecutors and Trump lawyers, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee set additional restrictions in addition to a $200,000 bond for the Republican businessman.
In a three-page court document, McAfee stated, “The Defendant shall not engage in any conduct with the intent to coerce or otherwise impede the administration of justice any person known to him or her to be a codefendant or witness in this case.”
The judge stated, “The foregoing shall include, but not be limited to, postings on social media or repostings of postings made by another person on social media.”
Two co-defendants in the lawsuit, John Eastman and Kenneth Chesebro, former Trump campaign lawyers, had their bonds set by McAfee at $100,000 each.
The 77-year-old former president is accused of attempting to rig the Georgia 2020 presidential election, and Willis, the district attorney for Fulton County, has asked the court to set the trial date for March 4 of next year.
As he makes a campaign to win the presidency again, Trump is dealing with four criminal proceedings.
After a thorough, two-year investigation into his attempts to overturn his loss to Biden in the Peach State, Trump was arrested in Georgia on accusations of racketeering and a number of election offences.
Along with Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff in the White House, Rudy Giuliani is also accused of participating in the alleged conspiracy.
“Speedy trial” – According to Special Counsel Jack Smith, the former president should face trial in Washington on January 2, 2024, on separate accusations of conspiring to rig the outcome of the 2020 election.
Trump’s legal team requested this week that the trial be set until April 2026, well after the election for president of the United States that year.
They contended that processing the volume of records in the case would take months.
In response, Smith stated in a court document on Monday that Trump’s legal team “exaggerates the challenge of reviewing” the evidence in the case.
The special counsel said that a trial scheduled until 2026 would violate the public’s right to a speedy trial.
At a hearing on August 28, Chutkan will choose the day of the trial.
In March 2024, Trump will also stand trial in New York for allegedly paying a porn star hush money in order to circumvent campaign finance laws before the 2016 election.
On charges that he also handled top-secret government secrets that he removed from the White House as he left office, he will stand trial in Florida in May.