Former US president Donald Trump has flown to Atlanta to be arrested over an alleged conspiracy to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia.
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00:00 Donald Trump's mugshot has just been released.
00:05 This is an historic moment in what has really been a series of historic moments involving
00:11 the former president, but really quite extraordinary to see this photograph taken inside the Fulton
00:18 County Jail as part of the process of formally surrendering here.
00:25 Donald Trump didn't spend long inside those walls.
00:28 It was all done in around 20 minutes or so, but we know that he had to present himself,
00:36 that he was formally booked.
00:38 Authorities there have released some information as part of that process.
00:43 They have listed the charges against him, which all relate to alleged attempts to overturn
00:48 Georgia's results in the 2020 election.
00:52 They have recorded the former president as being 6 foot 3, as being 215 pounds.
00:58 That works out to about 97 kilos.
01:00 They've recorded his hair as blonde or strawberry.
01:05 Really quite a different set of circumstances than we've seen compared to the previous three
01:12 indictments that Donald Trump has faced.
01:16 Two of those have been brought by federal prosecutors.
01:18 One has been brought in the state of New York.
01:21 None of those cases involved having the former president have a mugshot taken or having these
01:27 sorts of details released.
01:30 But as I said, he didn't spend long here.
01:32 His motorcade took him back to an airport in Atlanta where he boarded his private jet
01:38 bound for his property in New Jersey.
01:40 All of the defendants in this case, and there are 19 of them including Donald Trump, had
01:45 until midday tomorrow, local time, to turn themselves in at this same jail.
01:50 We have already seen a number of his co-defendants doing so.
01:55 His former personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was here yesterday.
01:58 His White House Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, surrendered today.
02:03 So that process is still ongoing.
02:06 Next there will be a court appearance because here in Fulton County it doesn't work as it
02:11 has done in those other cases.
02:13 This process is split in two.
02:15 And so that first court appearance isn't scheduled until early next month.
02:20 And we don't know at this point in time whether Donald Trump will have to attend that hearing
02:24 in person or if it could perhaps be done virtually.
02:28 Aside from that, the district attorney in Fulton County, Farnie Willis, the woman prosecuting
02:34 this case, is looking now to get this to trial.
02:38 She has said that she wants all of the defendants tried at the same time.
02:43 One of them had requested a speedy trial and so she suggested in a court filing today that
02:49 the trial could start in October of this year.
02:52 That is much sooner than many had been anticipating, had been flagged earlier.
02:57 So we wait to see whether that indeed would happen.
03:01 A lot of legal experts we've spoken to ever since this indictment was announced were really
03:07 sceptical that this kind of case involving so many people and being brought under Georgia's
03:13 racketeering laws, that it could be brought that quickly.
03:17 So we'll see what happens there.
03:19 In the meantime though, Donald Trump, as you heard there in those comments that he made
03:24 at the airport, really trying to use this case, as he has done with the three previous
03:30 cases, to his political advantage.
03:32 Trying to rally support, urging his backers for donations as he continues his campaign
03:40 for the Republican presidential nomination, for which he is still considered the overwhelming
03:46 frontrunner.
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