The Georgia state court on Monday imposed a bail of $ 200,000 (about 183,580 euros at the current exchange rate) on former United States president Donald Trump (2017-2021), so that avoid jail after being charged with trying to overturn the results of that state’s 2020 election.
The payment of that bail will allow the Republican to regain his freedom once he turns himself in at the Fulton County Jail, where he has until Friday to appear and date.
Trump was indicted on 13 counts last week by a Georgia grand jury for attempted falsification of the results of the 2020 election. in that state, where the current president, Democrat Joe Biden, won by a slim margin.
One of the crimes he faces is violating the RICO law, which is often used against mob bosses, which can lead to several years in prison if proven at trial.
For this crime the court asks him for $80,000 bailwhile for each of the other 12 he asks for $10,000, for a total of $200,000.
In the Georgia case, he was charged along with 18 associates, including his former personal attorney and former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, and his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows.
Georgia Grand Jury indicts Donald Trump for attempted falsification of 2020 election results
The Fulton County Superior Court also imposed $100,000 bail on Monday for attorney John Eastman and $10,000 for another defendant, Scott Hall.
Trump has not given any indication of when he will appear and canceled a press conference this Monday in which he was to present a report on “election fraud” in Georgia, a lie he insists on today.
This is Trump’s fourth criminal indictment. Two weeks ago, he was indicted by a grand jury in Washington DC on four counts of allegedly attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 U.S. election, which culminated in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In addition, in New York, Trump is indicted on 34 counts of paying porn actress Stormy Daniels, with whom he had an “affair” in the past, to buy her silence during the 2016 election campaign.
And the other criminal case is in Florida, where he faces 40 counts of illegally stealing and keeping secret documents he took from the White House at his Mar-a-Lago mansion.
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Source: Eluniverso
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