Bail for Trump set at $200,000 in Georgia ‘Election Interference’ Case
Trump, posted on his Truth Social that he would surrender to the authorities in Atlanta on Thursday, he is also sorting out logistical details in three other criminal cases that have been filed against him this year.
Earlier in the day, federal prosecutors pushed back on a request from his lawyers to postpone a separate election interference trial in Washington, D.C., until at least April 2026.
This is part of the attempt by the judiciary to – basically – shut him up in public, before and during his forthcoming criminal trials.
Under his bond agreement in Georgia, he cannot communicate with any co-defendants in the case, except through his lawyers. He was also directed to “make no direct or indirect threat of any nature against the community,” including “posts on social media or reposts of posts made by another individual.”
The terms were more extensive than those set for other defendants in the case so far, which did not specifically mention social media. In the past, he has made inflammatory and sometimes false personal attacks on Fani T. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, who is leading the case.
The bond was set at $100,000 for John Eastman, one of the architects of a plan to use fake electors to keep Mr. Trump in power. According to court filings; a lawyer for Kenneth Chesebro, who also developed that plan, said the same amount was set for Mr. Chesebro.
Trump’s attacks continued on Monday ahead of his bond being set. In a post on Truth Social, he called Ms. Willis “crooked, incompetent, and highly partisan” and wrote that she “has allowed murder and other Violent Crime to MASSIVELY ESCALATE.” – his capitals.
In fact, homicides have fallen sharply in Atlanta in the first half of the year.
He hasn’t had to pay bail in the other criminal cases against him, but now – the agreements posted for him and several of his co-defendants in Georgia on Monday require five- and six-figure sums. The defendants have to come up with only 10 percent of the bail amount, but even that could prove difficult for some, including Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former personal lawyer for Mr. Trump, who is running out of money because of an array of legal entanglements.
Racketeering cases like this one can be particularly long and costly for defendants — in another racketeering case in the same court, involving a number of high-profile rappers, jury selection alone has gone on for seven months.
The costs clearly worry some of the defendants in the Trump case; one of them, Cathy Latham, a former Republican Party official in Georgia who acted as a fake elector for Mr. Trump in 2020, has set up a legal-defence fund, describing herself as “a retired public-school teacher living on a teacher’s pension.” The $3,645 she has initially raised is well short of a $500,000 goal.
Trump and the Truth
Well – he has never bothered much, with it – the truth, that is –
I will always remember the face of his Chief Medical Advisor – sat prominently, at the press conference where he announced that injecting disinfectant would cure Covid!
If you missed it – just click here –
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– It’s followed by a recording of Trump’s one-hour phone call with Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asking him to ‘find’ 11,780 votes – one of the specific criminal counts against Trump, and subsequent comments from the people involved.
and a choice of embarrassing videos of Trump
I watched the whole thing – partly because it’s, sort of – my job, but mostly because I found it interesting.
I know – I should ‘get a life’
.I wouldn’t blame you – if you didn’t watch the whole thing! Don’t forget – You can click on’ SkipAds’ -bottom right hand corner.