The justice of the state of Georgia imposed a bail of 200,000 dollars (183,580 euros) on Monday to Donald Trump as one of the conditions to remain free after his imputation for 13 charges related to mafia acts and falsehoods aimed at reversing his defeat in the presidential elections there. of 2020.
As part of the prosecution, the former president and Republican candidate for re-election in 2024 must appear at the Fulton County jail, no later than Friday, to be arrested and booked, and to post bail. Sources in the case cited by CNN indicated that the former president plans to appear on Thursday.
Other sources indicated that the leader’s lawyers reached an agreement on Monday that would imply both the acceptance of the $200,000 bail and the judicial prohibition against threatening or intimidating witnesses in the case, victims of the pressure he exerted in their day against electoral officials and employees, or co-defendants of the cause. There are 18 of these alleged accomplices, they must also appear in the Fulton jail on Friday at the latest and they have also been accepting bail agreements for the 41 charges that they accumulate together.
The court requires Trump a deposit of $80,000 for the crime of criminal organization to falsify the elections, plus $10,000 for each of the other twelve charges against him.
Among the 18 collaborators charged with Trump are his former personal lawyer and former New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani, and former presidential chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Trump canceled yesterday the press conference in which, as he announced to great fanfare as soon as he was charged, he was going to present an “overwhelming, conclusive and irrefutable” statement that would prove that there was electoral fraud in the 2020 presidential elections.
The 13 new indictments against the ultra leader are added to the 78 charges he was already facing for the three criminal matters filed against him in separate federal courts since the end of March; the assault on the Capitol and other attempts to reverse his electoral defeat in different states, including Georgia (4 crimes); the one related to the concealment of hundreds of secret papers in his residence in Mar-a-Lago (40 charges), and the one corresponding to the falsification of dozens of accounting documents to mask the bribery of the porn actress Stormy Daniels (34 charges).
Trump will not attend this Wednesday the first debate between candidates for the Republican primaries for the 2024 presidential elections, organized by the ultra-conservative channel Fox. He argues that he is far above all his rivals, that people already know what he is capable of and that therefore there is no point in going. Instead of arguing with those other hopefuls, the former president plans to appear in a Twitter interview with recently ousted Fox star host Tucker Carlson. A full-fledged counterprogramming, as well as an ugly to the Republican Party. But Donald Trump, for now, everything is allowed.
