A Georgia court in charge of trialling former President Donald Trump on charges of attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election set a bail of $200,000 for former President Trump.
Local media Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC) reported on the 21st that Judge Scott McAfee of Fulton County, Georgia, issued these orders. The order, which was agreed upon by both prosecutors and former President Trump’s attorney, stipulates that former President Trump must not contact and influence witnesses during bail or contact other co-defendants without the intervention of a lawyer.
Nineteen people, including former President Trump and his aides, were indicted on the 14th for exerting pressure to overturn the voting results in Georgia, a contested state during the 2020 presidential election. Former President Trump’s aides and lawyers John Eastman and Kenneth Cheeseboro were each bailed at $100,000, and another attorney, Ray Smith III, was set at bail of $10,000.
During the bail period, they are required to confirm whether the bail conditions have been fulfilled once a month by phone or in the form of a court appearance. Former President Trump and his aides must appear at the prosecutor’s office in Fulton County, Georgia by the 25th and then proceed with the trial process.
Former President Trump is likely to go through the process of being imprisoned in a detention centre after appearing at the prosecution this time, unlike the previous three court proceedings (a process for clarifying the position on whether the prosecution acknowledges the prosecution’s indictment in court) are being discussed.