Former US president Donald Trump was arrested at a Georgia jail on Thursday on racketeering and conspiracy prices for attempting to overturn the 2020 election ends in the southern state.

During a quick session lasting lower than half-hour, the 77-year-old Trump was booked on 13 prices at Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail, based on information revealed by the sheriff’s workplace.

Trump’s peak was listed by the jail as six foot three inches (1.9 meters), his weight as 215 kilos (97 kilograms) and his hair colour as “Blond or Strawberry.”

Other defendants within the racketeering case who’ve surrendered to the Georgia authorities in current days have had a mugshot taken.

The billionaire has been criminally indicted 4 instances since April, setting the stage for a yr of unprecedented drama as he tries to juggle a number of court docket appearances and one other White House marketing campaign.

In posts on his Truth Social platform shortly earlier than leaving his New Jersey golf membership for the flight to Atlanta, Trump mentioned he was being arrested for “having the audacity to challenge a RIGGED & STOLLEN (sic) ELECTION.”

“This is yet another SAD DAY IN AMERICA!” he added.

Trump was in a position to dodge having a mugshot taken throughout his earlier arrests this yr: in New York on prices of paying hush cash to a porn star, in Florida for mishandling high secret authorities paperwork, and in Washington on prices of conspiring to upend his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

But Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat mentioned normal process in Georgia is to take a defendant’s {photograph} earlier than they’re launched on bond — set at $200,000 in Trump’s case.

The arrest comes someday after Trump spurned a televised debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that includes eight of his rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination — all of whom lag effectively behind him within the polls.

He nonetheless stole the highlight, although, with all however two of the candidates saying they’d assist him because the social gathering’s nominee even when he had been a convicted felon.

During a pre-recorded interview with former Fox News discuss present host Tucker Carlson — which aired on social media similtaneously the controversy — Trump dismissed the legal instances filed in opposition to him as “nonsense.”

Trump mentioned the Justice Department had been “weaponized” underneath Biden to hamstring his White House bid.

Court dates in election race

A good safety perimeter was arrange for Trump’s reserving on the Fulton County Jail, which is underneath investigation for a slew of inmate deaths and deplorable circumstances.

Fani Willis, the Fulton County district lawyer who filed the sweeping racketeering case, had set a deadline of midday (1600 GMT) on Friday for Trump and the opposite 18 defendants to give up.

Trump and 11 others have turned themselves in thus far.

Former White House chief of employees Mark Meadows surrendered on Thursday and was launched on $100,000 bond.

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who served as Trump’s private lawyer when he was within the White House and vigorously pushed the false claims that Trump had received the 2020 election, was booked and launched on Wednesday.

John Eastman, a conservative lawyer who’s accused of drawing up a scheme to submit a false slate of Trump electors to Congress from Georgia as a substitute of the professional Biden ones, has additionally been booked and launched.

A couple of dozen supporters of the previous Republican president gathered exterior the jail, together with Sharon Anderson who spent the evening in her automobile.

“I think this is a political persecution and now that’s turned into a political prosecution,” Anderson informed AFP.

Trump is the primary US president in historical past to face legal prices.

His varied trials, in the event that they happen subsequent yr, could coincide with the Republican presidential main season, which begins in January, and the marketing campaign for the November 2024 White House election.

Special counsel Jack Smith has proposed a January 2024 begin date for Trump’s trial on prices of conspiring to overturn the final election with a lie-fueled marketing campaign that culminated within the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol by his supporters.

Trump’s attorneys have countered with a urged begin date effectively after the election — April 2026.

Willis, the Georgia district lawyer, initially proposed that the racketeering case start in March subsequent yr, the identical month Trump is scheduled to go on trial in New York on prices of paying hush cash to porn star Stormy Daniels.

On Thursday, after one of many defendants requested for a speedy trial, she proposed that it start for all 19 in October of this yr, a transfer met with a direct objection from Trump’s legal professionals.

The Florida case, wherein Trump is accused of taking secret authorities paperwork as he left the White House and refusing to return them, is scheduled to start in May.