Another “unpresidented” second in American politics. The mugshot of a former US president. Thanks for that, everybody who voted for Donald Trump.
The ex-prez was arrested and booked within the Fulton County jail Thursday night. In all the method took about 20 minutes. He reportedly did NOT pay the complete $200,000 in bail, regardless of supposedly being a billionaire. Instead he did as so many defendants to, he put $20k down and had an area bond firm known as Foster Bail Bonds LLC cowl the remaining. Yeah, good luck getting your a refund, guys…
This is the primary time Trump has needed to pay money bail. After his different indictments he was all the time simply launched into the wild. Is he a flight danger? Well, he does have comrades in different nations (wink wink), however he’s additionally one of the well-known individuals on the planet. So in all probability not.
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According to Trump’s reserving doc, he’s 6’3″ and 215 lbs. We’ll simply breeze proper on by that. Not all false statements are crimes, know what we imply? A VERY small contingent of protesters gathered on the jail, reportedly about 100 — together with the anti-Trump ones.
Obviously there are lots of who will name this a darkish day in our nation’s historical past, however we’d once more press again that the darkish days have been when the alleged crimes have been being dedicated, when the POTUS and his lackeys have been making an attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
That’s what Trump is being charged with in Fulton County, a RICO case through which he’s charged with 13 counts in relation to the conspiracy to subvert the election ends in Georgia, together with the crimes of:
- solicitation of violation of oath by public officer
- conspiracy to commit impersonating a public officer
- conspiracy to commit forgery within the first diploma
- conspiracy to commit false statements
- conspiracy to commit submitting false paperwork
- submitting false paperwork
- false statements and writings
All beneath the violation of the Georgia Rico Act — that means all acts have been in furtherance of the identical felony plot. You can get extra data on the case and the opposite 18 defendants HERE. Here’s the complete doc:
Speaking to reporters on the airport in Atlanta, Trump defended his actions as soon as once more, saying:
“I did nothing wrong and everybody knows it… We have every right, every single right, to challenge an election that we think is dishonest.”
Again, he’s not saying he didn’t do any of these things — like getting followers to forge paperwork and faux to be the state’s electors, subverting the need of the voters. Just that he thought the election was dishonest. Despite all of the native Republican officers telling him there was no voter fraud, regardless of there by no means being any proof there was voter fraud or some other type of tampering, other than his personal. He thought it was OK, so he didn’t do something fallacious. Legally not a powerful protection.
Will Trump having a mugshot lastly make this actual for individuals? Will it’s the turning level that makes even a small variety of his followers understand how a lot bother he’s in if he doesn’t discover a technique to get out of it by means of, as an illustration, being re-elected as president?
We’ll see. But we’re not holding our breath.
[Image via Fulton County Sheriff’s Office.]
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