Trump becomes the first former US president with a criminal mugshot taken with the recent arrest. He was arrested at a Georgia jail on Thursday on racketeering and conspiracy charges for trying to overturn the 2020 election results in the southern state.However, he got released on a USD $200,000 bond and headed back to the airport for his return flight home to New Jersey after being in jail for only about 20 minutes.#UPDATE | Former US President Donald Trump was released on $200,000 bond and headed back to the airport for his return flight home to New Jersey.Donald Trump surrendered on charges that he illegally schemed to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, a brisk 20-minute booking… pic.twitter.com/RjJxbDntbS— ANI (@ANI) August 25, 2023While interacting with the reporters upon his release the former US president said “I did nothing wrong,” and described the criminal case against him as “a travesty of justice.” “We have every single right to challenge an election that we think is dishonest,” he said.Trump was released after he agreed to a USD $200,000 bond at the Fulton County jail in Atlanta. Apart from this Trump was made to agree to other release conditions including not using social media to intimidate co-defendants or witnesses in the case, which were previously negotiated by his attorneys.During the brief session, the 77-year-old Trump was booked on 13 charges. Trumps height was listed by the jail as six foot three inches (1.9 meters), his weight as 215 pounds (97 kilograms) and his hair color as “Blond or Strawberry,” at the Fulton County Jail.Trumps criminal records With Trumps arrest in Fulton County as inmate no P01135809, it marks the first case where Trump has been required to pay a cash bail and also makes him the first former US President to get a mugshot taken. US: Donald Trumps mug shot released by Fulton County Sheriffs Office Read @ANI Story | https://t.co/QymrSzgaY9#DonaldTrump #mugshot #US pic.twitter.com/RrZFWI6VPr— ANI Digital (@ani_digital) August 25, 2023His odds of being released without a cash bail were slim in Georgia. Trump was already facing three other felony indictments when he was charged here. Earlier on Thursday, Trump surrendered at the Fulton County jail in Atlanta to be booked on more than a dozen charges stemming from his efforts to reverse Georgias 2020 election results, as per media reports.The Republican leader had always been able to dodge having a mugshot taken during his previous arrests. This year he was also booked in New York on charges of paying hush money to a porn star, in Florida for mishandling top secret government documents, and in Washington on charges of conspiring to upend his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. Companions of Donald Fulton County, District Attorney Fani Willis (D), who filed the sweeping racketeering case, gave Trump, and his 18 co-defendants a deadline of Friday at noon to voluntarily surrender after indicting them last week.A few dozen supporters of the former Republican president gathered outside the jail, including Sharon Anderson who spent the night in her car. Supporters of Trump were not happy with the arrest and chanted slogans against Fani, “Lock Fani up!” the former presidents supporters chanted.Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows surrendered on Thursday and was released on $100,000 bond.Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who served as Trumps personal lawyer when he was in the White House and vigorously pushed the false claims that Trump had won the 2020 election, was booked and released on Wednesday.John Eastman, a conservative lawyer who is accused of drawing up a scheme to submit a false slate of Trump electors to Congress from Georgia instead of the legitimate Biden ones, has also been booked and released. Trump and 11 others have turned themselves in so far. Willis charged the 19 co-defendants in a 41-count indictment last week focused on racketeering charges. It is the fourth set of criminal charges Trump faces.
