Former President Donald Trump was indicted last week on racketeering and a series of election crimes in Georgia following a two-year investigation into efforts to overturn his election defeat. He was also accused of having tried to alter the result of the 2020 presidential elections in a case in Washington.
Two co-defendants in the 2020 election interference case facing former President Donald Trump turned themselves in to authorities in Georgia on Tuesday, August 22. They are Scott Hall and John Eastman, the latter a former Trump campaign lawyer.
According to jail records, the detainees were booked into the Fulton County Jail. Trump, accused of trying to tamper with the results of the 2020 presidential elections, is expected to turn himself in at the same jail on Thursday, August 24.
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Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee set $200,000 bond Monday for the 77-year-old former president. Trump, favorite for the Republican nomination in the 2024 elections, and the other 18 co-defendants have until noon on Friday, August 25, to turn themselves in to authorities in the southern state of Georgia.
Eastman, a conservative constitutional law scholar, is accused of concocting a scheme to submit a bogus list of Trump voters to Congress instead of legitimate Biden ones.
In the United States, citizens do not directly elect the president, but instead designate large voters from each state, who will be the ones who vote for one candidate or another.
Hall is charged with racketeering and conspiracy to commit voter fraud. Eastman’s bail was set at $100,000 and Hall’s at $10,000.
Trump was charged last week with racketeering and a series of election crimes in Georgia following a two-year investigation into efforts to overturn his election defeat. Fani Willis, the Fulton County District Attorney, has asked the judge that the trial of Trump and the other co-defendants be held on March 4, 2024.
The former Republican president has been indicted for allegedly trying to alter the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in a case in Washington, for having kept confidential government documents after leaving office and for paying a porn actress to keep quiet about an alleged extramarital affair. .
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2023-08-22 19:25:28
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