Trump news - live: Georgia prosecutor to lay out election case in first court hearing on Monday
A Georgia prosecutor will lay out her election subversion case against Donald Trump and 18 associates in court for the first time on Monday.
Fulton County Fani Willis will be in court in Atlanta to deal with the request by former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to move his case to federal court.
It will be the first time in any of Mr Trump’s four criminal cases that major arguments will be made in front of a judge. The hearing is set to get underway at 10am EST.
Mr Trump was booked and released from the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta last week after surrendering to authorities on 13 charges of attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
His booking photo represents the first and only time a current or former president has been forced to undergo a mug shot.
Meanwhile, the former president has claimed he won yet another golf tournament, stating on Truth Social that he won Bedminster’s Senior Club Championship with a five-under-par score of 67 - eight shots better than Phil Mickelson took at the course earlier this month.
Key points
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Trump scowls in historic mug shot after Fulton County Jail arrest
Trump’s weight in Georgia arrest records raises eyebrows
Noon deadline looms for two remaining Trump codefendants
This morning on Truth Social...
14:22 , Oliver O'Connell
Donald Trump began his week hammering out a series of posts on Truth Social concerning his prosecution by Jack Smith, Ron DeSantis’s political future, his social media platform, and Joe Biden.
He began:
It has just been reported that aides to TRUMP prosecutor, Deranged Jack Smith, met with high officials at the White House just prior to these political SleazeBags Indicating me OVER NOTHING. If this is so, which it is, that means that Biden and his Fascist Thugs knew and APPROVED of this Country dividing Form of Election Interference, despite their insisting that they “knew nothing.” It’s all a BIG LIE, just like Russia, Russia, Russia, & not knowing about son’s business dealings. DISMISS CASE!
Quite a typo in the next post about his rival Ron DeSantis’s career:
Roomer are strong in political circles that Ron DeSanctimonious, whose Presidential run is a shambles, and whose poll numbers have absolutely crashed, putting him 3rd and 4th in some states, will be dropping out of the Presidential race in order to run, in Florida, against Rick Scott for Senate. Now that’s an interesting one, isn’t it?
After his return to X last week, formerly known as Twitter, the former president felt the need to plug his own social media platform:
I BELIEVE THAT TRUTH SOCIAL IS THE GREATEST & “HOTTEST” FORM, SYSTEM, & PLATFORM OF COMMUNICATION IN AMERICA, & INDEED THE WORLD, TODAY. THAT’S WHY I USE IT — THERE IS NOTHING THAT COMES EVEN CLOSE!!!
And finally, he took a potshot at President Joe Biden:
The division, anger, and hatred that Crooked Joe Biden, the worst and most corrupt President in the history of the United States, has caused by Indicting his Political Opponent, who is leading him in the polls, all for the sake of Election Interference, and getting even for the very fertile investigations of him by the Republican Congress. It will only get worse because these deranged lunatics know no bounds. Someday, however, Sanity will again prevail. MAGA!
Giuliani appears to have grown two inches according to booking record
14:00 , Joe Sommerlad
Rudy Giuliani seemingly gained two inches in height during his Fulton County Jail booking as scepticism over Donald Trump and his associates’ vital statistics continues.
New York City’s former mayor surrendered in Georgia for his alleged role in the election interference case and was initially listed on the booking sheet as 5ft 9 and 180 pounds.
Hours later, Mr Trump’s former lawyer had his numbers changed by officials to 5ft 11 and 230 pounds, reported The Washington Post.
An individual who was with Mr Giuliani during his booking told the newspaper that they did not remember any Fulton County officials asking the former prosecutor about his height or weight, nor did they get him to stand on a scale.
The source told the newspaper that none of the numbers that appeared on the jail’s website matched driver’s license details.
Rudy Giuliani appears to have grown two inches on Georgia booking record
Vivek Ramaswamy defends calling Trump a ‘sore loser’
13:30 , Joe Sommerlad
Upstart Republican primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy sought to explain his past criticism of Donald Trump on Sunday following a debate performance this week in which he praised the former president as the greatest commander-in-chief of the last century.
Mr Ramaswamy appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday where he was asked by host Chuck Todd about his books Nation of Victims. Published last year, it is being viewed as a de facto manifesto for Mr Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur.
Mr Todd asked about one key passage from the book where Mr Ramaswamy appeared to swipe at candidates, like Mr Trump, who couldn’t accept defeat on Election Day.
“’No one likes a sore loser’,” Todd said, reading from the book. “’That’s one of the worst victimhood complexes of all.’ Are you referring to Donald Trump?”
Mr Ramaswamy replied: “I referred in that chapter both to Stacy Abrams and to Donald Trump.”
The passage from Nation of Victims highlighted by Todd was not the extend of Mr Ramaswamy’s criticism in the book. He would go on in the same chapter to describe how “a victimhood culture that started on the left in this country” would spread to the Republican Party under the guise of Mr Trump and his baseless insistence that his defeat was the result of election fraud.
“I was especially disappointed when I saw President Trump take a page from the Stacey Abrams playbook. His claims were just as weak as Abrams’,” Mr Ramaswamy wrote in the book.
John Bowden has more.
Vivek Ramaswamy defends calling Trump a ‘sore loser’
House impeachment inquiry into Biden ‘a natural step forward’, says Speaker McCarthy
13:00 , Joe Sommerlad
Speaker Kevin McCarthy suggested on Sunday that an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden is becoming more likely, calling it “a natural step forward” as Congress soon ends its summer break and House Republicans seek to expand their investigative powers.
The California Republican has so far avoided committing to an impeachment vote or offering a timeline for possible action. Some House Republicans are eager to go after Biden over claims of financial misconduct involving his son Hunter, but the Democratic president has not been shown to have done anything wrong.
Here’s more.
A House impeachment inquiry of President Biden is a 'natural step forward,' Speaker McCarthy says
Biden widely seen as too old for office, poll finds, but Trump has other problems
12:30 , Joe Sommerlad
Americans actually agree on something in this time of raw discord: Joe Biden is too old to be an effective president in a second term, according to a majority surveyed for a new poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Only a few years his junior, Donald Trump raises strikingly fewer concerns about his age.
But respondents had plenty of other problems with Trump, who, at least for now, far outdistances his rivals for the Republican nomination despite his multiple criminal indictments.
Never mind his advanced years — if anything, some say, the 77-year-old really ought to grow up.
Biden is widely seen as too old for office, an AP-NORC poll finds. Trump's got other problems
Judge to hear arguments on Mark Meadows’ request to move Georgia election case to federal court
12:01 , Joe Sommerlad
A federal judge in Atlanta is set to hear arguments Monday on whether Mark Meadows should be allowed to fight the Georgia indictment accusing him of participating in an illegal scheme to overturn the 2020 election in federal court rather than in a state court.
Here’s everything you need to know about what we’re in for.
Judge to hear arguments on Mark Meadows' request to move Georgia election case to federal court
Trump’s mug shot: One image, one face, one American moment
10:01 , Graeme Massie
A camera clicks. In a fraction of a second, the shutter opens and then closes, freezing forever the image in front of it.
When the camera shutter blinked inside a jail in downtown Atlanta on Thursday, it both created and documented a tiny inflection point in American life. Captured for posterity, there was a former president of the United States, for the first time in history, under arrest and captured in the sort of frame more commonly associated with drug dealers or drunken drivers. The trappings of power gone, for that split second.
Left behind: an enduring image that will appear in history books long after Donald Trump is gone.
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One image, one face, one American moment: The Donald Trump mug shot
All of the mug shots from the Georgia arrests
07:56 , Graeme Massie
Trump and his cronies have long been pictured at the White House and political rallies.
But now, the billionaire and some of his closest allies and fellow election deniers are the faces of humiliating mug shots.
On the morning of Friday 25 August, the last of the 19 defendants charged as part of a criminal enterprise working to overturn the 2020 election in the state of Georgia surrendered to authorities in Fulton County.
The last to surrender was Christian pastor Stephen Lee.
As the defendants turned themselves in, they had their fingerprints and mug shots taken before being released on bond.
Click here to see a who’s who of all those involved - and their mugshots.
Fox News contributor absurdly claims Trump was only seeking a recount with ‘find votes’ demand
06:03 , Graeme Massie
A Fox News contributor suggested that Donald Trump’s call to Georgia election officials asking them to “find votes” was simply a request for a recount and not an attempt to subvert the state’s election results.
In the wake of Mr Trump’s fourth indictment — this time in Fulton County, Georgia, where he is accused of trying to reverse the state’s 2020 presidential election results — Fox News contributor and George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley offered an assessment of why the charges against the former president are bogus.
“I think this is criminalizing the challenging of elections,” he said during Thursday night’s edition of Hannity on Fox News. “Basically, you have a Democratic prosecutor saying, ‘How dare you challenge a Democratic victory?’”
Fox News contributor claims Trump was only seeking a recount with ‘find votes’ demand
Fox News host ridiculed over Trump mugshot reaction
04:02 , Graeme Massie
Fox News host Jesse Watters has been ridiculed for telling his audience that Donald Trump “looks good and looks hard” in his Georgia mug shot.
The right-wing host echoed many conservatives in complimenting the four-times indicted, former president over his historic booking photo.
Watters bizarrely felt compelled to say that he was complimenting Mr Trump “with an unblemished record of heterosexuality”.
A grand jury in Georgia delivered 13 felony charges against Mr Trump for his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the state.
These charges included conspiracy to commit forgery, filing false documents, Solicitation of Violation of Oath by Public Officer.
Green Day sell ‘ultimate Nimrod’ T-shirt of Trump to raise money for Maui wildfire victims
02:05 , Graeme Massie
The design of the limited-edition shirt mimics the band’s 1997 Nimrod album but with former president’s face on it.
Green Day sell ‘ultimate Nimrod’ Trump t-shirt to raise money for Maui
Trump claims he won golf club championship in 67 shots - 8 better than Phil Mickelson’s score two weeks ago
01:03 , Graeme Massie
Former president even posted course’s head golf professional’s phone number if people did not believe him.
Trump ‘won’ golf championship with fewer shots than Phil Mickelson made two weeks ago
DeSantis leaves campaign trail and returns to Florida facing tropical storm and shooting aftermath
Monday 28 August 2023 00:05 , Graeme Massie
DeSantis leaves campaign trail and returns to Florida facing tropical storm and shooting aftermath
What to expect from Fani Willis’s first hearing on Monday in Trump’s Georgia case
Sunday 27 August 2023 22:55 , Graeme Massie
Hearing concerns trial of ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
What to expect from Fani Willis’s first hearing on Monday in Trump’s Georgia case
Chris Christie defends himself against ‘normalising’ Trump claims
Sunday 27 August 2023 22:07 , Graeme Massie
The Republican presidential hopeful was asked on Face the Nation on Sunday by host Nancy Cordes why he was now attacking the former president “after he was accused of rape, after he praised Vladimir Putin repeatedly, after he was impeached.”
The former New Jersey governor said that it was because of Mr Trump being the “greatest threat” to democracy.
“The conduct I’m talking about, Nancy, is the one that is the greatest threat to our country and the greatest threat to our democracy,” he said.
“And that was standing in front of the cameras from the White House behind the seal of the president on election night and telling people the election was stolen and for now three years, nearly, continuing to say the same thing, with absolutely no proof and no evidence. That’s the problem, Nancy.
“You can have policy disagreements with someone. And, believe me, I spoke out at the time about the things that I disagreed with Donald Trump on. That’s much different than taking classified documents from the White House and hiding them for 18 months from the government, claiming you don’t have them, when these are some of the biggest secrets in our -- in our country’s arsenal.
“It’s different than undercutting democracy, in the way that he was doing so and leading to the right we had on Capitol Hill on January 6. You know, I’m going to get on that stage and I’m going to tell the truth. Regardless of what other people may think, that is the truth.”
What to expect after Donald Trump’s Georgia surrender
Sunday 27 August 2023 21:01 , Graeme Massie
Here’s what we know about the case and what’s next for Mr Trump in Georgia.
What’s next for Donald Trump after his Georgia surrender?
DeSantis is silent on whether he will visit Jacksonville after racially-motivated mass shooting
Sunday 27 August 2023 20:05 , Graeme Massie
The Florida governor was on the campaign trail in Iowa this week.
DeSantis is silent on whether he’ll visit Jacksonville after race-motivated shooting
Green Day selling Trump mugshots for Maui fire
Sunday 27 August 2023 19:03 , Graeme Massie
Rock band Green Day are selling Donald Trump mugshot t-shirts to raise cash for Maui fire charities.
The design of the limited-edition shirt mimics the band’s 1997 Nimrod album but with Mr Trump’s face on it. According to an Instagram post, the band will donate the proceeds to Greater Good Music, a charity providing food to those impacted by the devastating wildfires in Hawaii.
Donald Trump wont have to prep for criminal trials, claims his lawyer
Sunday 27 August 2023 17:57 , Graeme Massie
“If it was a normal person, honestly, Shannon, I could understand the concern. President Trump is not your average person. He’s incredibly intelligent,” his attorney and legal spokesperson Alina Habba told Fox News Sunday.
“He also knows the facts because he lived them,” she continued. “What is he going to have to be prepped for, the truth? You don’t have to prep much when you’ve done nothing wrong, so that I’m not concerned with.”
Mr Trump faces 91 felony charges across the four legal cases in which he has been indicted. These include the January 6 case, the Mar-a-Lago documents, case, the Georgia election interference case and the Manhattan hush-money case.
Trump says he won club championship and claims score of 67
Sunday 27 August 2023 17:05 , Graeme Massie
Donald Trump says he won the Senior Club Championship at his Bedminster, New Jersey, course with a claimed five-under-par score of 67.
“I am pleased to report, for those that care, that I just won the Senior Club Championship (must be over 50 years old!) at Bedminster (Trump National Golf Club), shooting a round of 67,” Mr Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday.
His score was an impressive 8 shots better than Phil Mickelson scored at the LIV Golf event at the same course a few weeks ago, and Mr Trump acknowledged that people may have some reservations about his claim.
“Some people will think that sounds low, but there is no hanky/lanky,” he wrote. “Many people watch, plus I am surrounded by Secret Service Agents. Not much you can do even if you wanted to, and I don’t. For some reason, I am just a good golfer/athlete – I have won many Club Championships, and it is always a great honor!”
Trump’s mugshot has given MAGA its own scowling, vindictive iconic image
Sunday 27 August 2023 07:58 , Graeme Massie
Al Capone. Lee Harvey Oswald. OJ Simpson. And now, Donald Trump.
In the annals of American history, few mugshots are so iconic that they end up in history books. When they do, though, they become cultural touchstones, evocative of the times and tumult in which they were taken.
Certainly, the mugshot of the 45th President of the United States, indicted for his alleged role in conspiring to subvert the 2020 election in Georgia, is one of those images. Future historians will look at it as one of the defining photos of our era, one marked by deep divisions and the irreconcilable realities the two Americas – that of the Trumpian movement, and that of the rest of us – find ourselves in.
Skylar Baker-Jordan writes:
Trump’s mugshot has given MAGA its own scowling, vindictive iconic image
Biden chuckles over Trump’s mugshot: ‘Handsome guy. Wonderful guy’
Sunday 27 August 2023 06:04 , Graeme Massie
President Joe Biden chuckled when asked about his predecessor Donald Trump’s mug shot taken at the Fulton County jail in Atlanta, Georgia.
Mr Biden was asked by Bloomberg about the photo when coming out of a pilates and spin class in Lake Tahoe, California. The president said he saw the image on TV.
“Handsome guy. Wonderful guy,” Mr Biden said.
Mr Biden was booed by bystanders as he approached the press. He said he watched at least an hour and twenty minutes of the first Republican debate, which didn’t feature Mr Trump.
The president said he didn’t “learn much” from the Milwaukee showdown.
Biden chuckles over Trump’s mugshot: ‘Handsome guy. Wonderful guy’
Trump’s weight and height in Georgia arrest records raises eyebrows
Sunday 27 August 2023 04:10 , Graeme Massie
Consternation, confusion, incredulity, and amusement abound on the release of Donald Trump’s Fulton County Jail booking record.
Donald Trump’s weight in Georgia arrest records raises eyebrows
Question looms on Trump’s legal rights over mug shot usage in campaign
Sunday 27 August 2023 02:07 , Graeme Massie
What legal rights, if any, Donald Trump’s campaign may have over the mug shot’s reproduction are unclear, however. The photo was distributed by the Fulton County court to media outlets, including Reuters.
Mug shots taken by US federal courts are generally in the public domain, although Georgia’s state policy may be different.
Many US states have “right of publicity” laws that prevent the use of a person’s image in commerce without their permission. Federal trademark law also bars false advertising and endorsements, and Trump would also likely be able to sue under other state laws.
But political parody goods may receive some protection from intellectual-property claims under the US Constitution, and attorneys say that whether Trump would actually sue is more of a strategic question than a legal one.
“In all likelihood, given how polarising Trump has been, and everything that is already in the marketplace around his likeness, it would not likely be a legal priority,” trademark attorney Josh Gerben said.
Trump’s pose, glaring into the camera with his face tilted down, echoes his trademark pose in “The Apprentice,” the reality television show he starred in for several years.
The former president told Fox News Digital in an interview Thursday night that he only did the mug shot because Georgia officials insisted. “It is not a comfortable feeling, especially when you’ve done nothing wrong,” he said.
Trump invents new arrest charge: ‘Telling people to watch Newsmax’
Sunday 27 August 2023 01:05 , Graeme Massie
No matter what you think of the upstart rightwing network, it’s not a crime to watch it or encourage others to do so.
Trump bizarrely claims he was arrested for ‘telling people to watch Newsmax’
All of the mug shots from the Georgia arrests: From smiling Jenna Ellis to scowling Donald Trump
Saturday 26 August 2023 23:04 , Graeme Massie
He and his cronies have long been pictured at the White House and political rallies.
But now, Donald Trump and some of his closest allies and fellow election deniers are the faces of humiliating mug shots.
On the morning of Friday 25 August, the last of the 19 defendants charged as part of a criminal enterprise working to overturn the 2020 election in the state of Georgia surrendered to authorities in Fulton County.
Read on...
All the mugshots of Trump and co-defendants after surrendering in Georgia
Fox News’ Jesse Watters ridiculed for raving that Trump ‘looks good and looks hard’ in Georgia mug shot
Saturday 26 August 2023 22:08 , Graeme Massie
Conservative host felt compelled to say he was complimenting Mr Trump ‘with an unblemished record of heterosexuality’.
Jesse Watters ridiculed for raving that Trump ‘looks hard’ in Georgia mug shot
Hours after he surrendered in Georgia, Trump began selling ‘Never Surrender’ t-shirts with his mug shot
Saturday 26 August 2023 21:04 , Graeme Massie
Predictably, almost as soon as the scowling mug shot was released, the former president’s re-election campaign began using it to try to fundraise for his 2024 presidential run.
Less than 90 minutes in from his release from the Atlanta jail, the campaign sent an email to supporters saying it would give away a “free” premium cotton t-shirt featuring the historic booking photo – in exchange for a $47 donation.
Trump is selling ‘never surrender’ shirts - with mug shot taken during his surrender
Eric Trump denies report Mar-a-Lago sold in days before father’s Georgia arrest
Saturday 26 August 2023 20:02 , Graeme Massie
Eric Trump has knocked back a report claiming that his father’s Mar-a-Lago private club was sold for $422m days before his arrest in Georgia.
A listing on the real estate site Zillow had claimed that the Palm Beach, Florida, club had been sold on 4 August to a company called Mar-a-Lago Inc.
Reports suggested that the company was controlled by Donald Trump Jr.
However, that was angrily denied by Eric Trump in a social media post on Friday.
Eric Trump denies report Mar-a-Lago sold for $422m days before dad’s Georgia arrest
Trump joins a notorious album of (alleged) criminals
Saturday 26 August 2023 19:15 , Sheila Flynn
Donald Trump has become the latest addition – and the first United States president – to join that infamous cadre of the police-portraited arrested. The ever-publicity-conscious former reality TV star has already acknowledged the iconic status of any possible picture, trying to cash in on the prospect by releasing a fake one on a t-shirt (for $47 as a re-election campaign “donation”) back in April. But any real picture had yet to materialise – until today.
With one glowering mug shot, Trump joins a notorious album of (alleged) criminals
Palin predicts civil war after Trump arrested in Georgia
Saturday 26 August 2023 18:15 , Oliver O'Connell
Sarah Palin, the former Masked Singer contestant and reality television host who served half of a four-year term as Alaska’s governor nearly two decades ago, said the arrest of former president Donald Trump on racketeering and election interference charges could prompt a second US civil war.
Andrew Feinberg reports.
Sarah Palin predicts civil war after Trump arrested in Georgia
Explained: Why Trump wants to move his Georgia case to federal court
Saturday 26 August 2023 17:15 , Andrew Feinberg
It took less than a day after a Fulton County, Georgia grand jury indicted former president Donald Trump, his former chief of staff Mark Meadows, and 17 other defendants in a sprawling racketeering case for one of them to invoke a rarely used federal law in an attempt to move the case into federal court.
Read on...
Why does Trump want to move Georgia case to federal court?
Stormy Daniels reacts to Trump’s booking record after he surrenders at Atlanta jail
Saturday 26 August 2023 16:10 , Graeme Massie
Mr Trump was arrested in Georgia as part of the state’s investigation into his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Stormy Daniels reacts to Trump’s booking record after he surrenders at Atlanta jail
‘Handsome guy. Wonderful guy’: Biden reacts to Trump mug shot
Saturday 26 August 2023 14:15 , Oliver O'Connell
President Joe Biden chuckled when asked about his predecessor Donald Trump’s mug shot taken at the Fulton County jail in Atlanta, Georgia.
Mr Biden was asked about the photo when coming out of a pilates and spin class in Lake Tahoe, California.
Biden chuckles over Trump’s mugshot: ‘Handsome guy. Wonderful guy’
Big trouble for Trump in new poll after charges in Georgia case
Saturday 26 August 2023 13:15 , Gustaf Kilander
The indictments against Donald Trump may help him get the Republican presidential nomination, but they’re harming his prospects of winning the general election against President Joe Biden.
That’s among the results of a new poll from Politico Magazine and Ipsos which has revealed that the American people are taking the cases against Mr Trump seriously, with the survey revealing the electorate’s particular focus on the 2020 election subversion proscution brought by the Department of Justice.
The poll also shows that most Americans remain sceptical of Mr Trump’s arguments that the cases against him have no merit and that they’re part of a politically motivated witch hunt and a weaponization of the justice system.
New poll spells big trouble for Trump after charges in Georgia case
McMaster? Noem? Ramaswamy? Trump mulls possible Veep picks in post-arrest Newsmax interview
Saturday 26 August 2023 07:15 , Maroosha Muzaffar
Donald Trump has mentioned Henry McMaster, Kristi Noem and Vivek Ramaswamy as his possible picks for vice president in a post-arrest interview after a dramatic day at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta.
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Trump names McMaster, Noem, Ramaswamy as possible Veep picks in post-arrest interview
Trump decries ‘travesty of justice'
Saturday 26 August 2023 06:37 , Graeme Massie
Donald Trump was captured glaring at the camera in the first such photograph of a former president in US history, yet another extraordinary moment for the front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination.
After spending about 20 minutes at the jail on Thursday evening, the 77-year-old former president repeated the claim that Willis’s prosecution – along with the others he faces – is politically motivated.
“What has taken place here is a travesty of justice,” he told reporters. “I did nothing wrong, and everybody knows it.”
One of the final defendants to surrender, former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, turned himself in early on Friday and was released on $100,000 bond, records show.
Trump has not yet entered a plea in the Georgia case. He has pleaded not guilty in two federal cases accusing him of seeking to overturn the 2020 election and retaining classified documents after leaving office, and to a New York state case linked to hush money payments to a porn star.
Trump co-defendant remains in jail after telling judge he cannot afford private lawyer
Saturday 26 August 2023 06:25 , Reuters
One of Donald Trump‘s co-defendants in a wide-ranging election-fraud case in Georgia remained behind bars yesterday, after he told a judge that he could not afford a private attorney to represent him and was denied bond.
Harrison Floyd said at his first court appearance that he could not afford a private lawyer and had been denied representation by a public defender because he did not qualify.
Mr Floyd, who appeared virtually, said that it typically cost between $40,000 to $100,000 just to retain a private lawyer to fly to Georgia.
“I cannot afford an attorney for something like this,” he said, telling Fulton County Superior Court Judge Emily Richardson that he did not want to put his family in debt.
The judge told him that he could either hire a lawyer or represent himself.
It was not immediately clear why Mr Floyd was told he could not be represented by a public defender. Generally, defendants must meet certain financial requirements to qualify.
For now, he will remain in Fulton County Jail, which is being investigated by the US Department of Justice for violence and unsanitary conditions, as well as 15 inmate deaths last year. One of those was a man whose family says in a lawsuit was “eaten alive” by bedbugs.
Mug shot becomes Trump’s his first tweet since ban over Jan 6 riot
Saturday 26 August 2023 06:15 , Eric Garcia
Former president Donald Trump posted his first tweet on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Thursday evening when he shared his mug shot after he had been arrested in Fulton County, Georgia.
Mr Trump’s account had been suspended under the social media platform’s previous ownership for his incitement of the January 6 riot.
Trump posts mug shot as his first tweet since ban over Jan 6 riot
‘We did nothing wrong’: Trump proclaims his innocence
Saturday 26 August 2023 05:15 , Eric Garcia
Former president Donald Trump proclaimed his innocence Thursday evening after being booked at the Fulton County Jail in Georgia on racketeering charges.
The former president spoke to reporters after he was booked and had his mugshot taken at the Fulton County Jail after a grand jury indicted him for his scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.
The now twice-impeached, four-times-indicted Mr Trump called his arrest a sad day for the country.
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Trump proclaims innocence after booking in Fulton County Jail: ‘We did nothing wrong’
Full story: Trump booked into Fulton County jail after surrendering to Georgia authorities
Saturday 26 August 2023 04:15 , Andrew Feinberg
Former president Donald Trump on Thursday has been released from custody after he surrendered and was briefly placed under arrest by officers with the Fulton County, Georgia sheriff’s department at the Fulton County jail in northwest Atlanta.
Mr Trump, who was indicted on 15 August following a sprawling election interference probe overseen by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, was booked into the Fulton County jail on 13 separate charges, including a single charge of allegedly violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute.
The former president’s surrender comes after many of his highest-profile co-defendants cycled in and out of the same facility in recent days, including his former personal lawyer, ex-New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Mark Meadows, his last White House chief of staff.
Trump is booked into Fulton County jail after surrendering to Georgia authorities
‘Treated very nicely’ but Trump still rails against ‘terrible experience’ in jail
Saturday 26 August 2023 03:15 , Maroosha Muzaffar
Donald Trump has recounted his “terrible experience” despite being “treated very nicely” at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta after being booked and released from there.
Full story:
Trump rails against ‘terrible experience’ in jail where he was ‘treated very nicely’
Trump’s criminal charges and lawsuits: Where do they all stand now?
Saturday 26 August 2023 02:15 , Oliver O'Connell
Donald Trump has never been more vulnerable.
Without the privileges and prestige of the presidency to protect him, Mr Trump is facing serious lawsuits and criminal indictments across New York, Florida, Georgia and Washington.
Federal officials, local prosecutors, and individuals are going after him for everything from his private conduct to his political maneuvering during the 2020 election. If even just one of these efforts are successful, the US could see its first-ever former president in prison.
Here, The Independent explains each major case:
Tracking Trump’s criminal charges and lawsuits - and where they stand
ICYMI: Trump scowls in historic mug shot
Saturday 26 August 2023 01:15 , Graeme Massie
Donald Trump scowled in his historic mug shot that was released after the former president surrendered at the notorious Fulton County Jail.
Mr Trump was captured in the iconic photo as he was arrested in Atlanta over criminal charges that he conspired with 18 associates to interfere in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
It is the first time in American history that a sitting or former president has had a booking photo taken by law enforcement, in this case Fulton County Sheriff’s Department.
Trump scowls in historic mug shot after arrest at Fulton County Jail
Is Trump going to prison?
Saturday 26 August 2023 00:15 , Oliver O'Connell
It’s what everyone really wants to know...
Will Donald Trump go to prison?
Marjorie Taylor Greene taunted by fellow Trump fanatic at Georgia arrest rally
Friday 25 August 2023 23:15 , Oliver O'Connell
It’s Loomer v Greene again, as Bevan Hurley reports.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is taunted by fellow Trump fanatic at Atlanta arrest rally
Voices: Trump’s mugshot was a theatrical masterstroke with a showman’s flair for the outrageous
Friday 25 August 2023 22:30 , Oliver O'Connell
Veteran Washington observer Jon Sopel writes:
It is a theatrical masterstroke with a showman’s flair for the outrageous. While for most normal humans this would be a source of maximum shame and embarrassment, for Trump it’s an opportunity; he is wired differently. The mugshot is now available on all Trump merch and tat. Mugshot equals “kerching” and more campaign dollars.
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Trump’s mugshot was a theatrical masterstroke – and totally outrageous | Jon Sopel
