Donald Trump confirmed Monday evening that he will travel to Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday for his first court appearance that will later try him over his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in this southeastern state.
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“I’m going to Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday to be arrested by a far-left district attorney,” the billionaire Republican denounced on Truth Social, about Fulton County District Attorney Fanny Willis. CNN had scheduled this hearing shortly before.
This is the fourth criminal case in which the former president, who is once again seeking the White House and remains the favorite in the Republican primaries, has been charged.
Authorities had given him until noon Friday to report to the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, the state capital.
His appearance on Thursday will come a day after the first televised debate between the two Republican primary candidates, a debate in which Donald Trump, who has a wide lead in opinion polls, decided not to participate.
Trump and 18 others were indicted by a grand jury (a panel of citizens with investigative powers), appointed by Fannie Willis, on August 14 for their alleged wrongful attempts to obtain a reversal of the result of the 2020 election won in this key state by the Democratic president. The current Joe Biden. She is the one Donald Trump is targeting in his statements about the truth on Monday.
They are being prosecuted under the Organized Crime Act which provides for prison sentences of five to twenty years.
At his first hearing in the case, his attorneys agreed to post $200,000 bail, we learned from court documents earlier in the day.
Four of his co-defendants also agreed to post bail of between $10,000 and $100,000 each.
Posting bail allows defendants not to be remanded in custody, provided they do not break any laws, refrain from threats, and communicate with each other only through their attorneys.
Thursday in Atlanta, the former president may have to submit to a procedure he has escaped from during the three previous indictments: fingerprinting and fingerprinting of two photographs, one from the front and one in profile.
Fanny Willis asked the court to set the start date for the trial on March 4, the judge will decide.
The former president has been charged in three other cases.
A New York state judge accuses him of accounting fraud in a payment to a pornographic actress during his victorious 2016 campaign.
In Florida, he was indicted by federal justice over his handling of classified documents as negligent. And in Washington, D.C., he is being sued by federal justice and the same Attorney General Jack Smith, who became his pet, because of his attempt, at the federal level, to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election that he lost.
After being indicted in each of these three cases, Donald Trump appeared before a judge and pleaded not guilty three times to all charges.
On Monday, he again denounced the political “witch hunt.”
