Thursday, August 24, 2023

Donald J. Trump Booked And Charged At The Fulton County Sheriff's Jail In Georgia With Multiple Felony Counts For Alleged Election Fraud And Racketeering In 2020

Trump posted a $200,000 bond to be released from Georgia jail in Atlanta.

By H. Nelson Goodson 
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

August 24, 2023

Atlanta, Georgia - On Thursday, Donald J. Trump, 77, was booked at the Fulton County Sheriff's Jail on 13 criminal felony counts in connection with alleged election fraud and racketeering in Atlanta, Georgia. Trump posted a $200,000 bond with 10% cash down needed to post full bond.

19 defendants including Trump allegedly engaged in a criminal enterprise to overturn an election in 2020, according to Georgia prosecutors and criminal charges.

Trump has become the first former U.S. President to be booked, take a mugshot and charged in Georgia.

Others booked and charged:

• Rudolph W. L. Giuliani, Trump's attorney 

• Scott Graham Hall, former Georgia bail bondsman

• John Charles Eastman, Trump's former attorney 

• Cathleen Alston Latham, former GOP Chair, Coffee County 

• David James Shafer, former Chair, Georgia Republican Party

• Jenna Lynn Ellis, former Trump Campaign attorney

• Mark Randall Meadows, former Trump Chief of Staff

• Sidney Katherine Powell, former Trump Campaign attorney 

• Harrison William Prescott Floyd, Excessive Director of Voices for Trump

• Kenneth John Chesebro

• Jeffrey Bossert Clark

• Ray Stallings Smith III

• Robert David Cheeley

• Michael A. Roman

• Stephen Cliffgard Lee

• Trevian C. Kutti

• Misty Hampton, aka, Emily Misty Hayes

• Shawn Micah Tresher Still

If convicted on all felony counts, the defendants including Trump will be eligible for a pardon from a Pardon Board after serving 5 years of their sentence in Georgia.

At the GOP Presidential debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a majority (7) potential candidates confirmed that they would support Trump, if he was criminally convicted for a state and federal criminal convictions. Two of the candidates won't support Trump, if convicted for a criminal offense.


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