Donald Trump expected to be booked at Fulton County jail today
Former President Donald Trump is set to surrender to authorities at the Fulton County Jail today to face charges that he engineered a vast conspiracy with 18 allies to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia.
The former commander-in-chief announced his intentions in a social media post, saying he would arrive in Atlanta in the afternoon to “proudly” be arrested on the 41-count indictment. He plans to arrive on the eve of a Friday deadline set by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, whose investigation stretched for more than two years and involved a special grand jury.
The media presence outside the jail has been growing all week.
He is expected to be booked and photographed, making him the first U.S. president featured in a mug shot.
Law enforcement officials are boosting security ahead of Trump’s visit, implementing a “hard lockdown” around the Fulton County jail on Rice Street and cordoning off its main parking lot. Dozens of security officers are patrolling the area, and federal officials restricted flights over the jail.
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Greg Bluestein is the Atlanta Journal Constitution's chief political reporter. He is also an author, TV analyst and co-host of the Politically Georgia podcast.
Jeremy Redmon is an award-winning journalist, essayist and educator with more than three decades of experience reporting for newspapers. He has written for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 2005.
