This booking photo provided by Fulton County Sheriff's Office, shows former President Donald Trump on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, after he surrendered and was booked at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta. Trump is accused by District Attorney Fani Willis of scheming to subvert the will of Georgia voters in a desperate bid to keep Joe Biden out of the White House.
Trump called his indictments in Georgia, Florida, New York and Washington, D.C., “election interference,” referring to what he says are efforts to thwart his 2024 campaign for president. “It’s a sad day,” he said from the tarmac at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport shortly after being booked into the Fulton County Jail and before boarding his plane back to New Jersey. “We did nothing wrong at all. And we have every right — every single right — to challenge an election that we think is dishonest. And we think it’s very dishonest.”
Trump is accused of orchestrating a sweeping criminal enterprise and committing 13 felonies, including violation of the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, as he tried and failed to overturn his defeat in Georgia’s 2020 election. About 90 minutes after he voluntarily surrendered himself to Fulton County officials, Trump returned to X — the social media site formerly known as Twitter — for the first time in over two years and shared a picture of his mugshot with the words “ELECTION INTERFERENCE. NEVER SURRENDER.In a post-arrest interview he conducted by phone from his plane with Greg Kelly on Newsmax, Trump said his experience at the Fulton County Jail was “terrible” but that the people there “treated me very nicely.