Former President Donald Trump said Monday night that he would turn himself in Thursday in Fulton County, Georgia, after extensive charges were filed against him stemming from his efforts to stay in office after the 2020 election.
“Can you believe this? “I will be traveling to Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday to be ARRESTED by a far-left District Attorney, Fani Willis,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who launched the investigation against Trump and his allies, gave the defendants until midday Friday to voluntarily surrender.
Willis last week indicted Trump and 18 others on racketeering charges, accusing them of plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election. He gave the defendants until Friday to voluntarily surrender at the Rice Street Jail.
Three senior law enforcement officials said Friday they expected Trump to surrender by the end of this week.
In a news release Monday, the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office said that if he actually turns himself in, “there will be a strict lockdown of the area surrounding the Rice Street Jail.”
Trump agreed to a $200,000 bond on Monday. Under the terms of the consent bond order filed in court Monday afternoon, he agreed to the bond amount for charges that include racketeering, criminal conspiracy, criminal solicitation, filing false documents and making false statements.
Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee signed the order, which was signed by Willis and Trump’s lawyers. It states that Trump “will not take any action to intimidate any person he or she knows to be a co-defendant or witness in this case, or to otherwise obstruct the administration of justice.”
It also states: “The defendant shall not make any direct or indirect threat of any kind against the community or any property in the community. This includes, but is not limited to, posts on social media or reposts of another person’s posts on social media.”
The document was filed after members of Trump’s legal team — Drew Findling, Marissa Goldberg and Jennifer Little — were seen entering the Fulton County courthouse and heading toward the district attorney’s office around 2:10 p.m. They declined to comment to reporters en route.
Other defendants also agreed to bond for packages with the public prosecutor on Monday. As of late Monday afternoon, Trump’s was the only one Willis had signed – her deputy signed the others. He was also the only one who had the condition not to make threats to the community or on social media.
John Eastman, the lawyer accused of helping craft Trump’s sham election plan, agreed to $100,000 bail on charges including racketeering, criminal conspiracy and filing false documents.
McAfee signed the agreement Monday morning, the filings show.
Under the terms of his order, Eastman is to “report for pretrial supervision every 30 days” and “not take any action to intimidate any person he knows to be a co-defendant or witness in this case, or to otherwise impede the administration.” “hinder” justice.”
The order also states that Eastman “will not communicate in any way, directly or indirectly, to any person he knows to be a co-defendant” or a witness, “other than through his attorney” about the facts of this case is allowed to communicate – conditions Trump also agreed to this.
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Eastman — who is named but not charged as a co-conspirator in special counsel Jack Smith’s federal criminal case against Trump for allegedly attempting to undermine the 2020 election results — features prominently in prosecutors’ indictments.
It alleges that Eastman helped devise and implement a plan to have “alternative” presidential voters in Georgia and several other states won by Joe Biden cast their votes for Trump.
Eastman’s attorney, Harvey Silverglate, said in a statement last week that the charges against his client and the 18 other defendants “involve political, not criminal, activity” and that Eastman should not have been charged.
Another architect of the election program named as a defendant, attorney Kenneth Chesebro, struck a similar deal and agreed to $100,000 bail.
Ray Smith, another Trump lawyer who was allegedly involved in the voter initiative, agreed to a $50,000 bail order, court records show.
McAfee also signed a bail agreement with another defendant, Scott Hall, who faces racketeering and six counts of criminal conspiracy in connection with a scheme to access voting machines and data in rural Coffee County.
His bond was set at $10,000, court records show.
Nnamdi Egwuonwu and Frank Thorp V contributed.
