Multi-millionaire and former President Donald Trump says he will appear before authorities in Atlanta on Thursday after being accused of interfering in an election in the state of Georgia. Trump said Monday on his online service Truth Social that he would travel to Atlanta on Thursday to be “arrested” by “radical left-wing” prosecutor Fannie Willis. Trump said, lead attorney Willis is working “in tight coordination with Joe Biden’s Justice Department”
Trump and 18 co-defendants in the case were previously given until Friday afternoon to voluntarily surrender, Die Welt reported. “The grand jury has issued arrest warrants for the defendants,” prosecutor Fani Willis said in Atlanta last week. “I am giving an opportunity to the defendants to appear voluntarily by noon on Friday, the 25th August, 2023.”
It was earlier revealed that Trump had to post a bail of $200,000 (185,000 euros). The amount was ordered by a judge in metropolitan Atlanta following negotiations between Trump’s lawyers and prosecutors, according to a court document released Monday.
The court proceedings apparently haven’t hurt his political ambitions to run again in the next US election in 2024: 42 percent favor Trump, according to a poll published Monday among likely participants in the Republican primary in the US state of Iowa. Are. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis got 19 percent and Senator Tim Scott got nine percent of the vote.
The rest of the candidates are in single digits in the Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom poll. Voting in Iowa in January traditionally marks the beginning of the primaries, in which the two parties – Republicans and Democrats – choose their presidential nominees.
However, pollsters caution against assuming the race is already decided: it could be closer than it first appears. According to the poll, although 52 percent of respondents in Iowa have a favorite, they do not rule out choosing another candidate.
