Donald Trump facing the American authorities. Like any litigant, the former American president was subject, Thursday, August 24, to registration in the registers of an Atlanta prison, after being charged with attempting to manipulate the 2020 presidential election.
He had escaped it during his three previous criminal charges, but the billionaire probably did not cut the infamous ritual of the mugshot either, the taking of the mugshot, a first for a former American president. Released thanks to the payment of a bond of 200,000 dollars, the favorite of the Republican primaries for the presidential election of 2024 quickly left the scene in a motorized convoy, placed under high security.
Donald Trump’s mug shot, taken during his brief stint in prison, was released Thursday evening. The historic snapshot, on which the billionaire appears with a closed face and frowning eyebrows, is the first mugshot of a former American president.
Donald Trump posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday for the first time in more than two years, posting his historic mugshot. The former president had not posted a message on his favorite social network since January 2021, a few days after the attack on the United States Congress carried out by his supporters.
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Just after being subjected to a legal registration procedure in an Atlanta prison, Donald Trump denounced, on Thursday, a “travesty of justice” and “election interference” on the part of the authorities of the state of Georgia who charged him. “I did nothing wrong” by questioning the results of the 2020 US presidential election won by Joe Biden, assured the billionaire candidate for the White House, who was released on bail.
“Another sad day in America”, had denounced Donald Trump on his Truth Social platform, shortly before his departure for the county jail of Fulton, in this state of Georgia, bordering Florida. Several of his 18 co-defendants have preceded him in recent days in this overcrowded and notoriously unsanitary establishment, watched by the media from all over the world.
All were charged on August 14 with unlawful attempts to reverse the result of the 2020 election, won in the key state by current Democratic President Joe Biden. Those who have already pushed the door of the prison, like the ex-lawyer of Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, saw their passage immortalized and their mugshot circulating in a loop on television and on social networks. The rules in force also provide for the taking of fingerprints.
Before this compulsory registration, Donald Trump officially changed the head of his team of lawyers in Georgia on Thursday. No explanation was given for the replacement of Drew Findling by Steven Sadow, a tenor of the Atlanta bar, both accustomed to defending celebrities.
But Steven Sadow has in the past criticized the law on organized crime, used by the prosecutor to jointly charge the 19 defendants, and which provides for sentences of five to 20 years in prison.
The defendants have until Friday noon to present themselves to the authorities. They are expected to return to Atlanta, this time in court, the week of September 5, presumably to announce whether or not they plead guilty.
Legal setbacks accumulate for the former star of reality TV, criminally charged for the fourth time in less than six months. The septuagenarian is accused in New York of suspicious payments to a former porn actress, and by federal justice of electoral pressure during the 2020 presidential election, as well as the negligent management of confidential documents.
The former president has pleaded not guilty in all of these cases. But, paradoxically, each twist also earns him millions of dollars in campaign donations, paid by Trumpists convinced that he is the victim of a “witch hunt” engineered by the Biden administration for the out of the presidential election.
The American president, candidate for his re-election, is careful not to comment on the legal troubles of Donald Trump, anxious not to fuel these accusations of instrumentalization of justice.
Illustration of the funny campaign in which the former reality TV star is launched, this passage of Donald Trump in Georgia comes the day after the first major presidential meeting of 2024, the Republican primary debate, organized in Wisconsin.
The former real estate magnate considered himself exempt from participating because of his spectacular lead over his rivals in the polls, preferring to speak in a river interview with Tucker Carlson, former star host of the conservative channel. Fox News, broadcast on X (ex-Twitter) at the same time.
