the first “mugshots” of his co-defendants have arrived, including that of Rudy Giuliani

Thursday 24th August 2023 12:41 AM

Trump: the first “mugshots” of his co-defendants have arrived, including that of Rudy Giuliani

UNITED STATES – It’s not the long-awaited photo, but it gives a taste. On Wednesday, August 23, the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office released the first mug shots of those charged with Donald Trump by a grand jury in Atlanta, Georgia.

This grand jury, a panel of citizens with investigative powers, constituted by the county attorney, Fani Willis, indicted on August 14 the former president and 18 others for their alleged wrongful attempts to obtain the reversal of the result of the 2020 election won in this key state by current Democratic President Joe Biden. They are prosecuted under a law on organized crime which provides for sentences of five to twenty years in prison.

The 19 defendants have until Friday at noon (6 p.m. Paris time) to make themselves available to the authorities by presenting themselves at Fulton prison to have their fingerprints taken, their mug shot, or “mugshot”.

“ Spread them everywhere! »

And some have already been there on Wednesday. In total, nine of them, including the constitutionalist John Eastman, or the conservative lawyer Sidney Powell, submitted to this procedure which also provides for the recording in the archives of the penitentiary administration of the height, weight, each person’s skin and eye color. Among them is also Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. Their photos have gone viral on social media.

” It’s official. Fulton County Jail Freed 9 Musghots of Trump’s Co-Defendants! Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Cathy Latham, David Shafer, Ray Smith, Kenneth Chesebro John Eastman. Republicans don’t want us to share these photos. Spread them everywhere! »

” It’s official. Fulton County Jail Released Rudy Giuliani’s Mugshot! As the former mayor of New York, Giuliani is a disgrace both to the state and to the country as a whole. Republicans don’t want us to share that image. Should it be distributed everywhere? »

“They will dishonor themselves”

After Giuliani arrived in Atlanta from New York, where he was the emblematic mayor, his lawyers went to court for a hearing on the amount of his bail, which was set by the judge at 150,000 dollars.

” Rudy Giuliani’s photo was released by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, shortly after he reported to an Atlanta jail to be jailed on charges alleging he and others attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 elections in Georgia. “, wrote in the caption of his CBS News tweet.

“A ‘mugshot’ for the man who put probably the worst criminals of the 20th century in prison”Rudy Giuliani had gritted earlier when he left his home in New York where he was also a federal prosecutor and led an anti-mafia fight. “They will dishonor themselves by mugshotting me”he added in a statement on CNN.

Waiting for Donald Trump’s photo

But the photo that everyone is waiting for is obviously that of Donald Trump. The big favorite in the Republican primaries for the 2024 presidential election announced that he would go to Fulton prison this Thursday, unwillingly, denouncing a “election interference”.

He is the subject of four criminal charges, two at the federal level, in Washington and Florida (southeast), one in New York State and one in Georgia.

Outside Fulton Prison, someone was waving a huge Trump 2024 flag, while a man in a striped prisoner’s uniform held up a sign calling for “to incarcerate” the former president, according to AFP journalists.