Trump’s bond in Georgia election case set at $200,000

A judge set former President Donald Trump’s bond at $200,000 within the Georgia criminal case accusing him of conspiring to overturn his loss within the state’s 2020 election, a court filing showed Monday.

The filing, called a consent bond order, got here 4 days before the deadline for Trump and his 18 other co-defendants to give up in Georgia.

Departing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ office on Monday, Trump’s attorneys said that they had “nearly” finalized the terms of Trump’s give up later this week, in accordance with NBC News reporters on the bottom in Atlanta.

Willis’ sprawling indictment accuses Trump and his co-defendants of conspiring to undo President Joe Biden’s legitimate Electoral College victory in Georgia as a part of a broader effort to reverse the national election result.

Trump is charged with 13 criminal counts of crimes including racketeering, criminal conspiracy and filing false documents. It is the second set of election interference-related charges against Trump, who has been indicted in 4 separate criminal cases this 12 months.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee set Trump’s bond for the racketeering charge at $80,000, while the remaining 12 counts each received bond amounts of $10,000, the court filing shows.

The bond document orders Trump to not “intimidate any person known to her or him to be a co-defendant or witness on this case or to otherwise obstruct the administration of justice.”

Unlike several other co-defendants’ bond sheets, Trump’s offers several examples of acts that might violate that order.

Trump shall make “no direct or indirect threat of any nature” against any co-defendant, victim or witness, including the 30 unindicted co-conspirators referenced in Willis’ indictment. Trump must also not make any threat against “the community or to any property locally,” the bond order states.

The order adds: “The above shall include, but are usually not limited to, posts on social media or reposts of posts made by one other individual on social media.”

Trump can be prohibited from speaking in regards to the facts of the case with any co-defendants, except through his counsel.

Trump has not yet surrendered in Georgia. The bond terms may be crafted upfront in order that a defendant shouldn’t be held in jail while the conditions of their release are worked out.

Other co-defendants’ consent bond orders got here streaming in on Monday.

McAfee set a $100,000 bond for John Eastman, the pro-Trump lawyer who’s charged with nine counts within the Georgia case.

Kenneth Chesebro, one other pro-Trump lawyer and co-defendant, had his bond set at $100,000 on one count of racketeering and 6 counts of criminal conspiracy.

Ray Smith’s bond was set at $50,000, while the judge set a $10,000 bond for Scott Hall.