Former President Trump has surrendered to authorities in Georgia on Thursday evening following an indictment by a grand jury on 13 criminal counts stemming from his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the state.
Trump will not enter a plea at this time. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) has requested arraignments for the 19 co-defendants in the election interference case just after Labor Day.
Trump’s bail is set at $200,000, and the order also places rules on his social media use and his ability to talk to co-defendants and witnesses about the case.
Trump arrived at the jail just after 7:30 p.m. ET, spending about 22 minutes inside being booked before his release. A massive motorcade and police presence accompanied him to the jail from the Atlanta airport and back.
Follow along here for updates on Trump’s surrender and other news related to the case.
Former president Trump has landed back at Newark Airport in New Jersey after surrendering to authorities in Georgia following his fourth criminal indictment this year.
Trump, in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, sait it was “not a comfortable feeling” getting his mugshot taken.
“They insisted on a mugshot and I agreed to do that,” he told the news outlet. “This is the only time I’ve ever taken a mugshot.”
“It is not a comfortable feeling—especially when you’ve done nothing wrong,” he added.
– Brett Samuels
Lara Trump, daughter-in-law to former President Trump, said she believes his booking on criminal charges in Georgia on Thursday “solidified” his chances at winning the 2024 election for president.
She decried the case against Trump as a political prosecution in a Fox News interview on Thursday evening.
“I don’t think it will work. I think people understand what is going on, and I think tonight just solidified Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States,” she said.
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– Nick Robertson
Former President Trump on Thursday posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, for the first time since January 2021 to share an image of his mugshot following his surrender in Atlanta on Thursday evening.
Fox News showed its audience a mugshot of former President Trump after he was booked on criminal charges in Fulton County, Ga., on Thursday.
“Let’s just take that in for a second,” host Jesse Watters said as the image of Trump scowling and looking into the camera was displayed on the screen. “You do see some anger in the eyes, and I don’t like the ghoulish coverage of it.”
Watters suggested CNN, a frequent foil of Trump and various other hosts on Fox, “had the mugshot leaked to them before the rest of the media,” adding, “That tells you everything you know about the process.”
CNN was among the first news outlets to publish Trump’s mugshot.
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– Dominick Mastrangelo
Shawn Still, one of the pro-Trump individuals who signed documents purporting to be the state’s valid electors, is attempting to move his charges to federal court.
Still, a Georgia state senator and the sole sitting officeholder charged in the indictment, is now the fourth defendant to do so. He has not yet surrendered.
He argues the charges must be moved because he was acting in his duties as a federal officer and will assert federal defenses, including immunity.
“Even if the Court were to find that Mr. Still did not act as a federal officer in his role as a presidential elector, Mr. Still would still satisfy the first requirement for federal officer removal because he—at minimum—was acting under officers of the United States,” Still’s attorney wrote, referring to Trump.
– Zach Schonfeld
Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy lashed out against the media coverage surrounding former President Trump’s surrender to authorities in Atlanta on Thursday, calling it “shameful,”
“I think this is shameful, Laura,” he said in a Fox News interview with Laura Ingraham on Thursday. “This is an indictment not of Donald Trump, but of our national civic health.”
“That we have gotten to a place where we have a party in power that will use any charge in any jurisdiction — four at the same time — in the middle of an election, designed, mark my words, to stop their lead political rival currently from running,” he continued.
Trump’s surrender, a procedural step in his prosecution in a sprawling election fraud case, received wall-to-wall coverage from cable news networks.
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— Nick Robertson
Trump’s mugshot was released just over an hour after he departed the Fulton County jail where he surrendered after being indicted for a fourth time this year.
The sheriff’s office released the photo to the media. CNN was the first known network who showed the photo on air minutes before it was distributed more widely.
Read more about the history-making photo here.
The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office has indicated they are releasing mugshots of defendants in the case daily at roughly 4 p.m. ET.
Thursday’s batch was sent well before Trump arrived, so it’s possible his mugshot is not publicized until tomorrow.
However, at least one of Trump’s co-defendants posted his mugshot publicly on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, before the sheriff’s office released the photo to the press.
– Zach Schonfeld
Trump gave brief remarks before boarding his plane Thursday night calling his arrest “a very sad day for America.”
Trump repeated numerous gripes, including that he had a “right to challenge an election.”
“What is taking place here is a travesty of justice. We did nothing wrong. I did nothing wrong,” he said.
Trump faces 13 charges, from making false statements and writings to violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, or RICO, Act – a charge rooted in combating organized crime.
Two of those counts allege Trump soliciting a public official to violate their oath of office, in one case during a call with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) asking him to “find 11,780 votes” to help Trump overtake President Biden’s vote total.
Trump used a third-party to post his $200,000 bond, jail records show.
CNN reported that Trump agreed to pay a local bond company 10 percent in fees.
– Zach Schonfeld
A mug shot was taken during Trump’s booking process, according to CNN.
The network said that Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat confirmed the photo was taken.
It is the only mug shot that has been taken in any of Trump’s four criminal cases.
– Ella Lee
Former President Trump’s motorcade departed the Fulton County jail in Georgia after just 22 minutes in the facility where he turned himself in on Thursday night.
-Julia Mueller
Charging documents list Trump’s height as 6’3″ and his weight as 215 pounds, figures that appear to be self reported and were posted in advance of his arrival at the Fulton County jail.
The figure would be a drop from figures included in his medical reports as president, which noted in 2019 that Trump weighed 243 pounds.
Trump was released on bond from the Fulton County jail after just minutes, jail records show.
His motorcade has not yet departed the facility.
— Zach Schonfeld