Donald Trump to surrender next week in Georgia election meddling case: report

Former President Donald Trump is expected to surrender himself to the Fulton County jail at the end of next week, CNN reported quoting sources. Trump and 18 co-defendants were charged earlier this week in connection with a plot to subvert the 2020 election results in Georgia.

Negotiations between Trump’s lawyers and prosecutors are expected to continue into next week, ahead of the surrender deadline. The exact timing of Trump’s surrender remains unclear, the CNN report said.

Trump now faces a total of 91 charges across four criminal cases. His surrender and arraignment in Georgia are expected to look different from those in his previous three criminal cases. Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat has previously suggested he wants to treat Trump and the others named in the indictment similar to any other defendant. This could mean that they would have mugshots taken and be fingerprinted.

According to the indictment, Trump is accused of being the head of a 'criminal enterprise' that was part of a broad conspiracy to overturn his 2020 electoral defeat. The group of defendants named in the Georgia indictment includes former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and ex-Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani.

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