Former President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departure from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, in Atlanta.
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Five more co-defendants of Donald Trump surrendered at an Atlanta jail by early Friday morning, hours after the previous president himself was booked there within the Georgia election interference criminal case.
That left just two more co-defendants to give up before Friday’s deadline within the case, where 19 persons are charged.
Trump turned himself in Thursday evening on the Fulton County Jail, and was quickly released on $200,000 bond after being processed for 13 felony counts.
That included being photographed for his mugshot, the primary ever for an ex-U.S. president to be publicly released.
Trump then flew home to Latest Jersey, and gave an interview to Newsmax where he said getting his mugshot taken was a “terrible experience.”
“It will not be a cushty feeling — especially if you’ve done nothing flawed,” said Trump, whose 2024 Republican presidential campaign quickly began selling merchandise featuring his mugshot to boost money.
Source: Fulton County Jail
Inside hours, co-defendants Jeffrey Clark, Emily Hayes, Michael Roman, Shawn Still, and Robert Creeley had surrendered on the jail, records show.
Still to be booked there are Stephen Lee, an Illinois police chaplain, and Trevian Kutti, a former publicist for Kanye West. Each are accused of attempting to influence the testimony of Ruby Freeman, a Fulton County poll employee.
The entire 19 defendants were charged on Aug. 14 in an indictment accusing them of participating in a broad criminal conspiracy that attempted to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia to President Joe Biden.
Trump individually is charged in a federal criminal case with attempting to reverse his defeat within the national election.
Clark is a former Department of Justice official whom Trump considered installing as attorney general in late 2020 as he promoted the false concept that the DOJ had identified “significant concerns” about purported ballot fraud in Georgia and other swing states won by Biden. Clark, who faces two felony counts, is looking for to have his case transferred to federal court.
Former Justice Dept. official Jeffrey Clark.
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Cheeley, a Georgia lawyer, is charged with 10 felony counts.
Roman, who was an official in Trump’s campaign, is charged with seven felonies. He was involved in organizing people in Georgia and other swing states to present themselves as legitimate Electoral College members for Trump.
Still, a Georgia state senator charged with seven counts, was one in every of 16 so-called fake electors for Trump who claimed he had won in Georgia. Within the Electoral College, which determines who wins the presidency, only a candidate who has won a state gets all of their electors.
Hayes, who can also be often known as Misty Hampton, is a former election supervisor in Coffey County, Georgia. She faces seven felony counts.
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