WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) has only one week to turn himself in to be booked in Fulton (Georgia) prison, where he must go after being charged with allegedly manipulating the electoral results in this state.
Unlike in the three previous processes, in which Trump’s charges were read in three courts (in New York, Miami and Washington DC), this time the former president and the other 18 defendants will have to submit to this procedure in the Fulton County Jail.
Since the prison remains open 24 hours a day, the sheriff’s office said this week, defendants could do so at any time, before the date stipulated by prosecutor Fani Willis on August 25.
There the charges will be read to them and, predictably, their fingerprints will be taken, and their mugshot will be taken.
Trump has not given any clues as to when it will be presented and in the last few hours he announced the cancellation of a press conference that was to be held on Monday, in which he was going to present a “large, complex, detailed but irrefutable” report on “the fraud presidential election that took place in Georgia”.
The former president decided to cancel it because his lawyers have to dedicate themselves to “fighting to dismiss the accusation” and prefer to present said report officially during the process against him, he explained.
On the other hand, the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office confirmed on Thursday that it is investigating the threats suffered by the members of the grand jury that decided to indict Trump and the publication, through social networks, of their personal data.
In a statement they assured that they are tracing “the origin of the threats” and that they are working to guarantee “the safety of the people who fulfilled their civic duty” and affirmed that they take any “credible threat” “very seriously”.
According to the US press, photographs, home addresses and data from social networks of several of the 26 members of the grand jury have been circulating through social networks in recent days.
After more than two years of investigations led by prosecutor Fani Willis, a Georgia grand jury indicted the former president on Monday for trying to rig the results of the 2020 election in that state, where Democrat Joe Biden won by a narrow margin.
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According to the charging document, the former president faces 13 charges, including violating Georgia’s anti-corrupt organizations law which, if confirmed, requires prison time.
Among those charged with the former president are his former personal lawyer and former New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani, and his former chief of staff Mark Meadows.
This is Trump’s fourth criminal indictment. Two weeks ago he was indicted by a Washington DC grand jury on four charges for allegedly trying to reverse the result of the 2020 US elections, which culminated in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
In addition, in New York Trump has been charged with 34 charges for alleged payments to the porn actress Stormy Daniels, with whom he had an “affair” in the past, to buy his silence during the 2016 election campaign.
And the other criminal case is in Florida, where he is charged with 40 counts of illegally stealing and keeping classified documents that he took from the White House in his Mar-a-Lago mansion.
