Former U.S. President Donald Trump plans to travel to Atlanta on Thursday as part of his charge in Georgia to seek to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the state, he said on Monday. social media on Monday.
"I'm going to Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday to get arrested," Trump, who is running for re-election in 2024, said on his Truth Social platform. He described the indictment as a politically motivated attempt to derail his re-election campaign.
CNN previously reported that Trump was scheduled to attend the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta on Thursday. The date was set during negotiations between Trump's attorneys and the Fulton County prosecutor's office on Monday about Trump's consent to bail and the terms of his release, according to CNN. In a 98-page indictment in Georgia revealed last week, Trump and 18 other defendants are charged with a total of 41 counts as part of an attempt to overturn the 2020 election defeat by ' Bang'.
John Eastman, Trump's former personal attorney who is also charged in the Georgia case, plans to turn himself into Fulton County authorities on Wednesday, a court filing revealed Monday.
The Georgia case marks Trump's fourth indictment. He faces a lawsuit in New York state in March involving a silent payment to a porn star and a federal trial in May in Florida for allegedly mishandling documents. federal secret.
Another indictment, in federal court in Washington, accuses him of unlawfully seeking to reverse his defeat in the 2020 election. US Special Counsel Jack Smith has requested a trial in January but has yet to set a date.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to all criminal cases and could face trial for much of the next year, even as he campaigned to retake the White House.
In Georgia, the former president will face a $200,000 bond and be ordered not to send threatening social media messages while awaiting trial, according to a bail agreement signed Monday. by attorneys for Trump and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. The local sheriff's office said security would be tight around the prison during Trump's visit.
Trump has repeatedly claimed without proof that the charges against him are a "witch hunt". He regularly attacks Willis online and calls her "radical leftist" and "depraved".
Trump, the leading candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, and his accomplices were indicted in August Willis gave them until noon Friday to surrender or be arrested.
Prosecutors handling the case have suggested that the trial begin on March 4, while Trump's attorneys have requested a trial in 2026.
Trump's surrender on Thursday will come a day after the first Republican presidential primary debate, which the former president does not plan to attend.
