Donald Trump will surrender at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta on charges that he conspired to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election, he said in a post on his Truth Social platform.
(Bloomberg) — Donald Trump will surrender at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta on charges that he conspired to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election, he said in a post on his Truth Social platform.
All 19 defendants in the case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis have been turning themselves in this week ahead of an Aug. 25 deadline to surrender or face arrest. For Trump, it’ll be the fourth time this year that he’s been processed as a criminal defendant.
Trump’s latest criminal booking will be another milestone for the former president as he seeks to return to the White House in the 2024 election. He’s already facing a similar federal election case in Washington and unrelated criminal charges in New York and Florida. But he hasn’t had to report to a detention facility for processing until now.
In his post, Trump again claimed falsely that his defeat in 2020 was the result of a “RIGGED” election, saying the evidence is “IRREFUTABLE.” Neither Trump nor any of his allies could produce evidence of widespread voter fraud in dozens of lawsuits that challenged the result of the election.
Trump agreed to a $200,000 bond earlier this week. Most other defendants in the case have already surrendered, including longtime Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell, an architect of the conspiracy theory claiming the 2020 election was rigged.
Willis indicted the group on Aug. 14, alleging they violated Georgia’s racketeering law by organizing a “criminal enterprise” to keep Trump in office after he lost the election to Joe Biden. The district attorney has said that all the defendants in the case will be arraigned starting as soon as Sept. 5 in Atlanta, setting the stage for a series of remarkable court appearances.
The voluntary surrender by Trump is in contrast to his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, who asked a judge for an emergency order blocking his arrest if he fails to turn himself in while he fights to move the case to federal court. A judge denied that request on Wednesday night.
(Updates with detail from Trump’s social-media post.)
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