Trump goes through prison with a historic “mugshot”
Donald Trump surrendered in Fulton County Jail on Thursday, before being released on bail. History will remember the forensic photo taken of him.
PostedAugust 25, 2023, 12:04 AM
Donald Trump’s “mugshot” taken by the Fulton County, Georgia, Sheriff’s Office.
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Closed face, frowning eyebrows, defiant gaze: Donald Trump was subjected to a mug shot in an Atlanta prison on Thursday, a first for a former president in the history of the United States. He had escaped during his three previous criminal charges, but the billionaire candidate, accused of having tried to manipulate the results of the 2020 presidential election, did not cut this cliché with a potentially infamous effect. This “mugshot”, made in the services of the sheriff of the capital of the State of Georgia, instantly found itself in the American media and made the rounds of social networks.
This photo also marked the return of the former president to Twitter, now X: Donald Trump published the solemn snapshot, accompanied by the message “Never surrender!”, an illustration of his desire to fight what he considers to be a “witch hunt” orchestrated by President Joe Biden. His last post on this platform, once his favorite communication channel, was in January 2021. He was banned after the attack on the US Congress led by his supporters, but this suspension has since been lifted.
Released thanks to the payment of a bond of 200,000 dollars, the favorite of the Republican primaries for the presidential election of 2024 quickly left this Atlanta prison in a motorized convoy placed under high security. He is now “on file” like any defendant prosecuted, with his physical characteristics thus detailed: 1.90 m, 98 kg, Venetian blond hair. And registration number P01135809.
“Nothing hurts”
Just after having had to undergo this legal procedure and before boarding his private plane again, Donald Trump denounced a “simulacrum of justice” and “election interference” on the part of the authorities of the State of Georgia who have charged. “I did nothing wrong” by questioning the results of the 2020 presidential election won by Joe Biden, assured the Republican tribune. He himself then published the solemn photo, thus captioned: “Never surrender!” illustration of his desire to fight what he considers to be an endless witch hunt, orchestrated by the Democratic administration of President Biden.
The two prison entrances had been closed to traffic since Thursday morning, with the exception of law enforcement vehicles.
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Before Donald Trump, several of the former president’s 18 co-defendants passed through Fulton County Jail, an overcrowded and notoriously unsanitary facility, this week. All were charged on August 14 with unlawful attempts to reverse the result of the 2020 election, won in this key state by current Democratic President Joe Biden. Those who have already pushed the door of the prison, like the ex-lawyer of Donald Trump Rudy Giuliani, saw their passage immortalized and their “mugshot” circulating in a loop on television and on social networks.
Before this compulsory registration, Donald Trump replaced the head of his team of lawyers in Georgia, choosing Steven Sadow, a tenor of the Atlanta bar. Steven Sadow has in the past criticized the law on organized crime used by the prosecutor to jointly charge the 19 defendants, and which provides for sentences of five to 20 years in prison.
The defendants prosecuted should return to Atlanta, this time in court, the week of September 5, presumably to announce whether or not they plead guilty.
Four charges in six months
Legal setbacks are piling up for Donald Trump, a former reality TV star charged with criminal charges for the fourth time in less than six months. The septuagenarian is accused in New York of suspicious payments to a former actress of X films, and by federal justice of electoral pressure during the presidential election of 2020 as well as of negligent management of confidential documents after his departure from the White House. The former president has pleaded not guilty in all of these cases.
But, very paradoxically, each twist also brings him millions of dollars in campaign donations, paid by Trumpists convinced that he is the victim of a political cabal.
Donald Trump, upon his arrival in Atlanta, Thursday August 24, 2023.
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The American president, candidate for his re-election, is careful not to comment on the legal troubles of Donald Trump, anxious not to fuel his accusations of instrumentalization of justice.
Donald Trump’s passage through prison in Georgia came the day after the first major presidential meeting of 2024, the Republican primary debate, organized in Wisconsin. The former real estate magnate snubbed this debate, justifying himself by his spectacular lead over his rivals in the polls, and preferring to speak in an interview with Tucker Carlson, former star host of the conservative channel Fox News, broadcast on X (ex-Twitter) at the same time.
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