Donald Trump, the previous US president who surrendered on Thursday in Georgia on expenses of racketeering and conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election referred to as a“travesty of justice” following his arrest. He additionally slammed the legal prosecutions in opposition to him as “election interference”.

“What has taken place here is a travesty of justice. We did nothing wrong. I did nothing wrong,” he advised reporters as he ready to fly out of Atlanta after being booked and photographed on the Fulton County Jail.

“What they’re doing is election interference,” he mentioned.

Trump didn’t specify who he was accusing of interference, however he has routinely denounced President Joe Biden and different Democrats for allegedly obstructing his reelection marketing campaign.

The brisk 20-minute reserving yielded a historic first: a mug shot of a former American president.

Trump was launched on $200,000 bond and headed again to the airport for his return flight house to New Jersey.

Trump’s give up to regulation enforcement authorities has change into by now a well-known election-season routine in a approach that belies the unprecedented spectacle of a former president being booked, in 4 totally different cities, on felony legal expenses.

But his go to to Atlanta was notably totally different from the three previous surrenders, unfolding at evening and requiring him to go to a problem-plagued jail — slightly than a courthouse — and never in a liberal bastion like New York or Washington however slightly within the coronary heart of a battleground state important to the 2024 presidential election. And not like in different cities that didn’t require him to pose for a mug shot, a reserving picture of him was taken, in response to an individual accustomed to the proceedings.

Trump landed in Atlanta shortly after 7pm and was pushed, by way of the town’s rush-hour visitors, to jail for the reserving course of. Wearing his signature white shirt and purple tie, he supplied a wave and thumbs up as he descended the steps of his non-public airplane.

He supplied officers as is customary along with his bodily measurements: 6 foot 3 inches. 215 kilos. Strawberry or blond hair.

The Fulton County prosecution is the fourth legal case in opposition to Trump since March, when he turned the primary former president in US historical past to be indicted. Since then, he is confronted federal expenses in Florida and Washington, and this month he was indicted in Atlanta with 18 others — together with his ex-chief of employees, Mark Meadows, and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani — underneath a racketeering statute usually related to gang members and organised crime.

Giuliani surrendered on Wednesday and posed for a mug shot. Meadows, who had sought to keep away from having to show himself in whereas he seeks to maneuver the case to federal courtroom, turned himself in Thursday. Bond was set at $100,000.

(With inputs from AFP, AP)