2023-08-22 02:54:24
The former president of the United States Donald Trump (2017-2021) confirmed this Monday (08.21.2023) in a message on social networks that this coming Thursday he will hand himself over to the authorities in the state of Georgia, where he is charged for allegedly trying to reverse the results of the 2020 elections.
Trump wrote in a message on his social network, Truth Social, that his “trip” Thursday to the city of Atlanta will not be to commit any murder but to “make A PERFECT CALL.”
The former president was referring to one of the main charges of the accusation: the recording in which Trump asks the Secretary of State of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, to “find” enough votes to win in the state.
In his message on Monday, the former president again charged the prosecutor in charge of the case, Fani Willis, whom he accused, as he usually does, of leading a witch hunt against him.
This Monday it was also known that Trump will have to pay a $200,000 bail (about 183,580 euros at today’s exchange rate) to avoid jail after his imputation in the state.
The payment of that bond will allow the Republican to regain his freedom once he has turned himself in at the Fulton County (Georgia) prison.
Four charges against Trump
Trump was indicted last week of 13 counts by a Georgia grand jury for attempting to rig the results of the 2020 election in the state, where incumbent Joe Biden narrowly won.
Among the crimes he is accused of is violating the RICO law (for its acronym in English), commonly used against mafia bosses, which could lead to several years in prison if proven during trial.
This is Trump’s fourth criminal indictment. Two weeks ago he was indicted by a Washington DC grand jury on four charges for allegedly trying to reverse the result of the 2020 US elections and encouraging the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
In addition, in New York, Trump has been charged with 34 charges for payments to the porn actress Stormy Daniels, with whom he had an “affair” in the past, to buy his silence during the 2016 election campaign.
The other criminal case is in Florida, where he is charged with 40 counts of illegally stealing and keeping classified documents that he took from the White House in his Mar-a-Lago mansion.
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