Donald Trump was ordered to surrender by Friday at noon after being indicted last week in the Georgia state capital for allegedly conspiring to rig the 2020 election.
According to a recent survey by The Associated Press-NORC Centre for Public Affairs Research, an insignificant majority of Americans supported the U.S. Justice Department‘s decision to indict Donald Trump for his attempts to hold onto power after losing the 2020 election.
Candidates are preparing for the first debate of the 2024 election
The former president of the United States is anticipated to turn himself in the Fulton County jail the next week in connection with the efforts to void Georgia’s 2020 election results. Trump and 18 other defendants were charged on Monday with a scheme to rig the Georgia 2020 election. Fani Willis, the district attorney for Fulton County, set the deadline for his surrender as August 25.
The Republican presidential candidates are preparing for the first debate of the 2024 election on Wednesday, but Donald Trump is the center of attention since he has threatened not to attend.
The runaway frontrunner’s grassroots support is as strong as ever five months before the commencement of primary votes to determine the party’s flagbearer, but several criminal charges have put a shadow on his return attempt.
To avoid competing for attention with opponents who are polling worse than him, the 77-year-old former president, who is rarely out of the news, has publicly discussed the possibility of skipping the event in Milwaukee, in the Midwest.
” I presently have a lead of more than 50 points over the runner-up, whoever that may be.” Both Reagan and others refrained from doing it. People are aware of my stellar record—among the BEST EVER—so why would I debate? On Thursday, Mr. Trump published on social media.
91 charges against Trump and four criminal cases
There are already 91 charges against Trump spread over four criminal cases. It is anticipated that his Georgia surrender and arraignment will be different from those in his prior three criminal charges.
Trump and the other defendants mentioned in the indictment will be handled similarly to any other defendant, according to prior comments made by Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat. This might imply that they would be fingerprinted and have their mugshots taken.
An investigation against Trump was started in Fulton County:
According to the New York Post, the investigation against Trump and his aides was started by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over two years ago.
Willis informed reporters at a late-night news conference that she wanted to try all 19 defendants concurrently and that they would have less than two weeks to surrender before trial after all 19 persons were accused on Monday in connection with the plans to rig the 2020 election.
On Friday, August 25, 2024, at noon, “I am allowing the defendants to voluntarily surrender,” stated Willis.
Willis stated that she hopes to act fast and that her office would work to try the matter “within the next six months.” According to the New York Post, if a court grants it, Georgia would be the first country to do so, and Willis would be the first prosecutor to do so.
What is the Georgia election meddling case?
To reverse his defeat in the state’s 2020 election, Donald Trump and 18 others were prosecuted in Georgia. Prosecutors accused the former president, his attorneys, and other advisers of participating in a “criminal enterprise” to maintain their positions of power.
The nearly 100-page indictment outlines a number of actions taken by Trump or his supporters to overturn his defeat, including pleading with Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to find him enough votes to win the crucial state; harassing an election official who was the target of false fraud allegations; and attempting to persuade Georgia lawmakers to disregard the will of the people and nominate a new group of Trump-supporting electoral college electors.
It also describes a scheme using one of his solicitors to gain access to voting equipment in a remote Georgia county and steal information from a voting system manufacturer in one especially blatant event.
The case was brought by the office of the Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who said at a late-night news conference that the indictment “alleges that the defendants engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn Georgia’s presidential election result, rather than abide by Georgia’s legal process for election challenges.”
According to Willis, the defendants may surrender
Other defendants include Jeffrey Clark, a Trump administration Justice Department employee who helped the then-president attempt to overturn his Georgia election defeat, Mark Meadows, a former White House chief of staff and attorney for Trump, and Rudy Giuliani, a former mayor of New York City. John Eastman, Sidney Powell, and Kenneth Chesebro were among the other attorneys charged with using questionable legal theories to reverse the verdicts.
By August 25 at noon, the defendants may voluntarily surrender, according to Willis. Additionally, she stated that she intended to try the defendants jointly and that she would work to get a trial date set for within six months.
