‘It Is Going to Be a Very Different Picture’
Trump must surrender in Georgia to face charges by Friday
Donald Trump's surrendered to authorities three times this year. But when turns himself in, for the fourth such post-indictment in Georgia things well could go somewhat differently than before.
Trump, who was indicted last week in Fulton County, Ga, in connection with a sprawling criminal racketeering conspiracy to overturn Georgia's result in the 2020 presidential election, must turn himself in by Friday.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis announced the charges in the case.
Trump was caught recorded in a phone call with Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, pressuring him to “find” enough votes to nullify Democrat Joe Biden's narrow win in the state.
The former president, who has surrendered previously to face two federal and one New York state criminal indictments, also is the frontrunner for the next year's Republican presidential nomination in his third bid for the White House.
His encounter with authorities in Georgia is likely to be different than he's seen in the past, however, according to some legal observers.
“It’s going to be very different because they have said that they are going to do mugshots and fingerprints, and he will be turning himself in at the Fulton County jail, not in a federal building, not in a clean, nice environment,” said Jill Wine-Banks, a prominent attorney and a one-time prosecutor in the Watergate scandal. “It is from what we hear from the press, a really dirty, dangerous, scary place. So, it is going to be a very different picture.
“And I think the picture of him there, I think his experience of being in a real jail. I can tell you that some of the Watergate defendants when they were put in the DC jail really freaked out and we had to move them to an army base so that they could cooperate and testify,” she added.
Ty Cobb, once an attorney for Trump, agreed.
“I don’t think he’ll be subjected to any physical search personally by the sheriff’s office. But I do think they will insist on the mugshot and the fingerprinting, because that does seem to be routine there, and Fani Willis has said that’s going to happen. So, I would expect that that will happen,” he said. “I would expect that the mugshot will be immediately forwarded to Trump’s PR people and they’ll be raising money off of it before he leaves the jail.”
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