Trump Ready to Surrender Before Court to Face Charges

Tue Aug 22 2023
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WASHINGTON:  Former US President Donald Trump has said that he will surrender before a Georgia court on Thursday to face charges against him in an election case, AFP reported on Monday.

Trump in a statement on his platform Truth Social on Monday, he would be arrested by a radical District Attorney, Fani Willis on that day.

The development comes after a Court in Georgia set the bail bond of Trump at $200,000 in a case about his alleged involvement in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results

A consent bond was filed with the Fulton County Superior Court and signed by Judge Scott McAfee.

In the bond, specific amounts have been fixed for each of the 13 counts he faces.  Trump, according to the order, can pay the bond in cash, through commercial surety, or through the Fulton County Jail 10% program.

Fulton County Election Case, Trump’s Bond Set at $200,000

The bond says Trump cannot threaten any person known to him or her to be a codefendant or witness in this case.

He is prohibited from making direct or indirect threats of any kind against any co-defendants, witnesses or victims, including on social media.

Trump can only communicate about the charges in the case through his attorney.

The terms of the bond were agreed upon by Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney and the former president’s three lawyers.

Earlier, Willis, had proposed that Trump’s trial should start in March of next year.

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In her proposals submitted to the court, she sought initial appearances for the various defendants charged in the Georgia election case during the first week of September.

The grand jury had already indicted Trump and 18 others, accusing the former president of seeking to overturn his 2020 election results.

Trump will also face trial in a New York court on March 25, 2024, on separate charges of concealing a money payment to a porn star.

Trump is still the main-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, despite his legal matters. He has termed all the investigations as part of a coordinated attempt by Democrats to weaken his candidacy.

Trump, in a post on his Truth Social site, had termed the Georgia investigation a “witch hunt.”

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Criticising the Modi government’s current approach, Bilawal described it as dangerously provocative. “Their so-called ‘new normal’—what we call an abnormal—is that any terrorist incident anywhere in India, or in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, can lead to immediate escalation without even a shred of evidence. An accusation alone is enough to justify full-blown military action against Pakistan.” Following engagements in Washington and New York, the high-level Pakistani parliamentary delegation, led by Bhutto Zardari, is expected to continue its diplomatic outreach with visits to key European capitals, including London and Brussels. Engaging key US lawmakers Meanwhile, the delegation conducted a series of meetings with US lawmakers on Capitol Hill. It with a bipartisan group of US lawmakers, including a key meeting with the Congressional Pakistan Caucus, co-chaired by Congressmen Jack Bergman and Tom Suozzi. 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