ATLANTA (Michigan News Source) – It took four arrests in the last 154 days for Trump to be photographed for a mug shot but it finally happened in Georgia this evening when he was arrested and booked, fingerprinted and photographed for the Georgia Election Interference case at the Fulton County Jail.
It took 20 minutes for Trump to enter the jail, get business done and leave the jail.
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Trump’s plane landed at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Georgia at 7:05 p.m. EST. He descended the boarding stairs after disembarking the plane, and then he got into a dark vehicle at 7:15 pm. After that, he was on his way to jail in a five-vehicle motorcade.
Towards the end of the trip to the jail, the motorcade and was seen to be much larger with about 20 police officers on motorcycles in front of the caravan and additional vehicles added to the line including vans, a military vehicle, and a fire/rescue vehicle.
Both Trump supporters and protesters were in an area outside of the jail, some setting up shop early in the morning.
Trump was under arrest at approximately 7:40 p.m. Then he was booked, with his bond already granted at $200,000.
Trump’s information in the court files includes being 6’3, 215 lbs. with blond or strawberry hair and blue eyes.
Many of the other co-defendants in the case have already surrendered, gotten booked and had their mug shots taken including Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, Mark Meadows and Rudy Giuliani. Those who still need to surrender need to do so by noon on Friday.
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According to Just the News Trump will need to return to Fulton County for his arraignment, or first court appearance unless a judge waives the proceeding or allows it to happen virtually.
Michael J. Moore, former U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, was on CNN during the event and said, “I feel like I’m watching a campaign trip as opposed to a court trip.”
Along those lines, Trump made a speech on the tarmac before he got back into the Trump plane where he said, “You should be able to challenge an election. I thought the election was a rigged election, a stolen election, and I should have every right to do that as you know you’ve had many people over the years do the same thing whether it’s Hillary Clinton or Stacey Abrams or many others.”
He went to say that you have to have the freedom to challenge or you’ll have very dishonest elections. He continued, “What’s taken place here is a travesty of justice. We did nothing wrong. I did nothing wrong. And everybody knows that I’ve never had such support. And that goes for the other ones too. What they’re doing is election interference. They’re trying to interfere with an election. There’s never been anything like it in our country before. This is their way of campaigning. This is one instance but you have three other instances. It’s election interference.”
Then he thanked the press pool and said, “We did nothing wrong and we have every right, every single right to challenge an election that we think is dishonest and we think it’s very dishonest.”
Then he thanked the media again and got back on his plane.
Before Trump’s mug shot was taken, betting was taking place about what the photo would look like according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Oddsmakers were betting on whether Trump would wear a MAGA hat, if he would be smiling, and what Trump’s weight would be.
The betting site Bovada was taking bets on whether Trump will be handcuffed and what phrases he will put on his Truth Social site after his arraignment. Some of the phrases included “rigged and stolen,” “fake indictment” and “I will never set foot in Georgia again.”
Trump’s mug shot will likely go down as one of the most popular, if not THE most popular mug shots of all times – right up there with OJ Simpson, former Senator John Edwards, Bill Gates, Justin Bieber, Frank Sinatra, Jeremy Meeks the “hot” felon, Elvis Presley and Martin Luther King Jr.
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