On Thursday evening, one week after a Georgia grand jury indicted Trump and 18 of his associates, he turned himself in to authorities in Atlanta.
The 13 felony charges brought by a Fulton County grand jury led to the former president of the United States, Donald Trump, turning himself in to Georgia authorities on Thursday evening to go through a formal detention procedure.
Trump, 77, arrived to Atlanta’s Rice Street Jail, where he will likely be fingerprinted and have his picture taken in a jail uniform. Then, after an earlier in the week arranged $200,000 bond, he will be released.
As previously mentioned in this article, on August 14 the former president and his political supporters were indicted in a fourth criminal probe after prosecutors presented evidence pertaining to their intentions to rig Georgia’s 2020 election.
The criminal charges suggested by the Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ office were authorized by a majority vote of the grand jury’s 23 members. A 98-page indictment with 41 charges was the result, charging a total of 19 individuals.
The 13 felony allegations against Trump range from filing fake documents and breaking the Georgia RICO Act to numerous conspiracy offenses.
With the additional accusations from Fulton County, Trump is now accused of 91 crimes across four instances, several of which carry a recommended jail sentence. If found guilty of breaking the “serious felony” definition of the Georgia RICO Act, he would be subject to a mandatory minimum sentence of five years.
In addition, 18 of Trump’s associates were charged in the indictment, including his former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Jenna Ellis, Bob Cheeley, Ray Smith III, and Kenneth Chesebro, former assistant U.S. attorney general Jeffrey Clark, former Georgia Republican Party chairman David Shafer, and current state senator Shawn Still from Georgia.
A publicist, local election officials, a GOP strategist, a pastor from Illinois, a former candidate for congress, and an Atlanta bail bondsman are among the other defendants.
The 19 defendants have been turning themselves in at the county jail one by one since Tuesday. Each person had till Friday at noon to voluntarily turn themselves in.
After departing the White House, the twice-impeached former president has been under growing scrutiny from numerous investigations.
In April 2023, Trump entered a not guilty plea to 34 state felony counts relating to payments of hush money to two women, allegedly adult film star Stormy Daniels and ex-Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal.
After leaving the White House, a federal grand jury accused Trump for allegedly handling classified data improperly. Days later, Trump appeared in court in Miami and entered a not-guilty plea to all counts.
A federal grand jury indicted the former president on four criminal counts in August after looking into the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, as well as other attempts to rig the 2020 presidential election.
And earlier this year, a jury ordered that Trump pay E. Jean Carroll $2 million for sexual abuse and $3 million for defamation after finding him responsible for both of those offenses against the former Elle advice writer.
The many criminal, legislative, and civil investigations have not found any evidence of misconduct, according to Trump, his family, and his supporters.
