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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