He is now prisoner “P01135809”. Donald Trump, 1m90, 98kg (according to his declaration), strawberry blond hair, was subjected to registration in Thursday Atlanta prison records, like any litigant. The former American president, charged with attempting to manipulate the 2020 presidential election, also had the infamous ritual of the “mugshot”, the taking of the mugshot, a first in the history of the United States .
On the tarmac, he denounced a “simulacrum of justice” and “electoral interference” on the part of the authorities of the State of Georgia who charged him. “I did nothing wrong” by questioning the results of the 2020 US presidential election won by Joe Biden, assured the billionaire candidate for the White House, who was released after posting a bail of 200,000 dollars.
Viral mugshots
The former tenant of the White House has been preceded in recent days in this overcrowded and notoriously unsanitary establishment, watched by the media around the world, by several of his 18 co-defendants. 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. The rules in force also provide for the taking of fingerprints. On the other hand, Donald Trump did not step on the scale to save time. The weight listed is therefore declarative and seems generous at 98 kilos, so the former president weighed, according to his medical examination, 110 kilos in 2018.
Before this imposed registration, Donald Trump officially changed the head of his team of lawyers in Georgia on Thursday. No explanation was given for the replacement of Drew Findling by Steven Sadow, a tenor of the Atlanta bar, both accustomed to defending celebrities.
But 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 have until Friday noon to present themselves to the authorities. They are expected to 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 accumulate for the former star of reality TV, criminally charged 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 the negligent management of confidential documents.
The former president has pleaded not guilty in all of these cases. But, that’s the whole paradox, each twist also brings him millions of dollars in campaign donations, paid by Trumpists convinced that he is the victim of a “witch hunt” engineered by the Biden administration for the out of the presidential election.
Illustration of the funny campaign in which the former reality TV star is launched, this passage of Donald Trump in Georgia comes the day after the first major presidential meeting of 2024, the Republican primary debate, organized in Wisconsin, which the former president snubbed, preferring to grant an interview to Tucker Carlson on X (ex-Twitter).