Trump’s bond is set at $200,000 in the Georgia election case

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Trump’s bond is set at $200,000 in the Georgia election case

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Sarah D Wire

August 21, 2023

Former President Trump’s band in Fulton County, Ga.

,

Indictment of attempts to overthrow

Georgia is the

The 2020 election result is set at $200,000. The terms of the release include

additional

prohibition of witness intimidation and other restrictions.

Trump and the 18 others charged in the case have until noon

ET

Friday to surrender to authorities in the racketeering case brought by Fulton County Dist. attentive Fani Willis in connection with efforts to keep Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election

against Democrat Joe Biden

. The suspects are expected to be arranged in early September.

The terms of Trump’s release, which were set by a judge and made public Monday, include instructions not to make direct or indirect threats, including through social media, against potential witnesses, victims or the unindicted co-conspirators mentioned in the indictment, but not named. . He has also been ordered not to communicate the facts of the case with a known witness

It

except through legal counsel.

“The defendant may post a cash bond, through a commercial surety bond, or through the Fulton County Jail 10% program,” the order said.

Trump faces charges of racketeering and a dozen other felonies, including incitement to violate an official’s oath, conspiracy to commit forgery and

to make

false statements and writings.

The indictment alleges a massive effort to disrupt the 2020 presidential election in Fulton County, elsewhere in Georgia and in other states, including through false statements in court and false allegations by Trump and others against a few pollsters,

together with

Attempts to abuse the Justice Department to convince state legislators to reverse the results.

The indictment includes a plan to secretly assemble a series of bogus voters at the Georgia Capitol

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vote for Trump anyway

joe

Biden who won a majority of the vote in the state, and to use the competing slates

of voters

to stir Georgia’s result when Congress convened on January 6, 2021

,

to certify the election results.

Trump has said his actions were not illegal and that the investigation

What

politically motivated.

Bond what

So

set

Monday

on $100,000 for former Trump election attorney and California professor John Eastman, who has been accused of press

Than-

VP

Mike

pennies to slow down

convention

certification of the results or

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throwing out Georgia’s votes

;

and for Kenneth Chesebro, who is accused of organizing the fake voter scheme.

Bond was set at $10,000 for Scott Hall, a Georgia bail bondsman accused of facilitating access to the electoral system in Coffee County, Georgia, by a team working for Trump’s allies.

Bond was also set at $50,000 for Georgia attorney Ray Smith, who led state legal challenges to the Trump campaign.

The witness restrictions were not included in the bond orders for Eastman, Chesebro, Hall

or Smith

.

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