Trump travels to Atlanta for mug shot, booking in election case
ATLANTA : Donald Trump left his New Jersey estate on Thursday to get his mug shot taken at an Atlanta jail as part of a wide-ranging criminal case stemming from the former US president's attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia. Trump's motorcade departed his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, as he began the hours-long trip to the Fulton County Jail, where several dozen supporters awaited his arrival. He said on social media that he would surrender around 7:30 p.m.
Eastern time (2330 GMT). Meanwhile, Judge Scott McAfee set a trial date of Oct. 23 for one of the defendants, attorney Kenneth Chesebro, after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who brought the charges against Trump and the others, had proposed that date.
That trial date will not necessarily apply to Trump or the other 17 defendants. Trump, 77, already has entered uncharted territory as the first former U.S. president to face criminal charges, though the four cases filed against him have not slowed his momentum as the front-runner in the race for the Republican nomination to run against Democratic President Joe Biden in next year's election.
Now the businessman-turned-politician who for years hosted a reality TV show is due to join the ranks of gangster Al Capone, crooner Frank Sinatra and other high-profile Americans who have posed for jailhouse photographs. The image is certain to be circulated widely by Trump's foes and supporters alike. "We want to put it on a T-shirt.
It will go worldwide. It will be a more popular image than the Mona Lisa," said Laura Loomer, 30, a Republican former congressional candidate who mingled with other Trump supporters outside the jail on Thursday morning. One of the most recognizable people in the
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