Former President Donald Trump declared Monday night that he planned to hand himself over on Thursday in Fulton County, Georgia, following an indictment on extensive accusations arising from his endeavors to maintain his position in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
“Can you fathom it? I’ll be journeying to Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday to be APPREHENDED by a Radical Left District Attorney, Fani Willis,” Trump expressed on his social networking platform, Truth Social.
District Attorney Fani Willis of Fulton County, the one who initiated the inquiry into Trump and his associates, has given the respondents until noon Friday to willingly surrender.
Last week, Willis filed racketeering charges against the former president and 18 others, asserting that they conspired to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election in the lawsuit. The respondents have been granted until August 25th to turn themselves in voluntarily at the Rice Street Jail.
Three high-ranking law enforcement officials informed NBC News that they anticipated Trump’s capitulation to happen later this week. In a press release on Monday, the Fulton County sheriff’s office communicated that upon his self-surrender, “there will be a stringent lockdown of the vicinity bordering the Rice Street Jail.”
Earlier on Monday, Trump concurred to a $200,000 bond in the Georgia legal proceeding charging him with endeavoring to illegitimately overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the state.
In accordance with the conditions of the “mutual bond decree” presented in court on Monday afternoon, Trump consented to the specified bond sum on charges encompassing racketeering, criminal conspiracy, criminal solicitation, submission of false documents, and issuance of deceptive statements.
The decree was sanctioned by Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee. The edict, endorsed by both Willis and Trump’s legal representatives, stipulates that Trump “shall not carry out any action to bully any individual recognized by him or her to be a co-defendant or witness in this lawsuit or to otherwise obstruct the administration of justice.”
The decree also mandates that the “Offender shall refrain from any direct or indirect expression of any kind aiming to intimidate the community or any assets within the community; The aforementioned shall incorporate, but will not be confined to, posts on social media or reposts of content created by another individual on social media.”
The submission was documented with the court after members of Trump’s legal team—Drew Findling, Marissa Goldberg, and Jennifer Little—were observed entering the Fulton County Courthouse approximately at 2:10 p.m. ET, progressing toward the DA’s office. They opted not to respond to inquiries from journalists while entering.
Other respondents also reached concurrences with the prosecution on bond packages on Monday. Up until late Monday afternoon, Willis had authorized only Trump’s—others were authorized by her subordinate. Trump’s stipulations were also the sole ones encompassing refraining from threatening the community or utilizing social media to make threats.
John Eastman, the attorney accused of playing a role in Trump’s counterfeit elector strategy, agreed to a $100,000 bond on the charges comprising racketeering, criminal conspiracy, and submission of false documents.
McAfee gave his consent to the arrangement on Monday morning, as indicated by the filing.
In line with the conditions of his decree, Eastman “shall report to pre-trial oversight every 30 days,” and “shall not carry out any action to bully any individual recognized by him or her to be a co-defendant or witness in this lawsuit or to otherwise obstruct the administration of justice.”
The decree additionally upholds that Eastman “shall not communicate in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, regarding the actualities of this lawsuit with any individual recognized by him to be a co-defendant” or witness “in this lawsuit, with the exception of communications made through his or her legal counsel”—conditions to which Trump also acquiesced.
Eastman—referred to but not charged as a co-conspirator in special counsel Jack Smith’s federal criminal lawsuit against Trump for allegedly attempting to undermine the 2020 election outcomes—holds a prominent and recurrent position in the DA’s indictment.
The indictment alleges that Eastman aided in contriving and executing a strategy for “alternative” presidential electors to cast their votes for Trump in Georgia and various other states that were won by Joe Biden.
Harvey Silverglate, the attorney representing Eastman, conveyed in a statement last week that the allegations against his client and the other 18 respondents in the lawsuit “describe actions that are political in nature, not criminal,” and that Eastman should not have been charged.
Kenneth Chesebro, another mastermind behind the elector scheme cited as a respondent in the lawsuit, reached a parallel agreement, assenting to a $100,000 bond.
Ray Smith, another attorney for Trump who was purportedly implicated in the elector scheme, consented to a $50,000 bond edict, according to court documents.
McAfee also endorsed a bond accord involving another respondent in the lawsuit, Scott Hall. Hall faces charges of racketeering and six counts of criminal conspiracy linked to a plot to access voting machines and data in rural Coffee County.
The specified bond for Hall was set at $10,000, as indicated by the court filing.
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