Former President Donald Trump surrendered Thursday evening and was booked at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta. Trump faces 13 felony counts in Georgia related to efforts to overturn the stateโs 2020 election result.
Trumpโs appearance in Georgia comes a day after the first Republican primary debate, which he skipped. Trump is currently the partyโs front-runner for the 2024 presidential nomination.
Trump was released on a $200,000 bond shortly after being processed.

The 18 other defendants in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willisโ wide-reaching criminal case have until Friday at noon to turn themselves in for booking.
Many have already surrendered, including Trumpโs former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and Trumpโs former lawyers, John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell. The sheriffโs office is making mugshots available to the media each afternoon.
โIt doesnโt matter your status,โ Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat recently told reporters. โWe will have a mugshot ready for you.โ

In Fulton County, a booking appearance is separate from an arraignment, where a defendant issues a plea on their charges.
For most of the caseโs 19 defendants, bond terms will have been negotiated in advance so they donโt have to spend long in jail awaiting a hearing, says Bob Rubin, a criminal defense attorney in Decatur, Georgia. A few defendants have surrendered in the middle of the night to avoid long processing times.
On Monday, a judge signed off on an agreement between prosecutors and Trumpโs lawyers to set bond at $200,000. Bond has ranged between $10,000 and $200,000, depending on the defendantโs charges.

Rubin says bond conditions consider factors like a defendantโs flight risk, danger to the community, and the likelihood of intimidating witnesses or committing another felony.
Trumpโs bond agreement requires that he refrain from intimidating co-defendants or witnesses, including through social media. He is not allowed to communicate with any co-defendants about the facts of the case except through his lawyer.
โDespite saying theyโre going to treat them the same as everybody else, theyโre going to make sure no oneโs going to get hurt in this jail,โ Rubin says. โIt would look really bad, so Iโm sure the sheriffโs office is going to make every effort to segregate them from other inmates who may be dangerous.โ
Trumpโs summer of scandal began in New York, where Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged him with campaign finance violations, claiming the former president made hush-money payments to a porn star and Playboy bunny to bury their stories of having had affairs with him.

He was then hit with federal charges of illegally withholding classified documents at his Florida mansion after leaving office and for illegally working to disrupt the formal counting of the votes in Congress that confirmed his loss in the 2020 election.
But it took until Trumpโs fourth indictment on state charges in Georgia, alleging that he and 18 others conspired to illegally overturn the 2020 election in which he narrowly lost the state to Biden, for a mugshot to formally appear.