Exclusive: Trump had lawyers negotiate booking to take place during prime viewing hours to get maximum television ratings
    • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      20·
      1 year ago

      Wasn’t bail only set at 200k? So like a token gesture, really.

      Normal people don’t get that much leniency… I’d be surprised if we get a mugshot, but Godzilla do I want it.

      • SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org
        8·
        1 year ago

        Some states are switching to cashless bail by default because there’s so many people rotting in jail for not having $100 to their name.

      • interolivary@beehaw.org
        7·
        1 year ago

        Bail is such an American concept. Break the law, but if you have money you can avoid some of the consequences, because of course rich people should be treated better

        • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          I entirely agree with you, it’s a poverty penalty and should be abolished entirely -except for- the wealthy, who -should- be required to post bail to walk free, as a got-caught-being-antisocial wealth tax. :)

          So so many things about the American police state need to be fixed, really.

    • Uniquitous@lemmy.oneEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      The guy who runs the place already said that there would be mugshots for all. I bet Trump smiles for the camera like fuckin’ Tom DeLay did. Smarmy bastard.

  • PretentiousDouche@lemmy.sdf.org
    6·
    1 year ago

    He wants to play the martyr, thinking it will help his candidacy. It helps him in the primary, as it pumps his narrow base up, but how many people can be undecided about Trump at this point? I’m hopeful this circus will turn off anyone not wearing a red cap already.

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    1 year ago

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    Donald Trump is expected to surrender at the Fulton county jail on Thursday evening on racketeering and conspiracy charges over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia, according to two people briefed on the matter.

    The former president – seeking to distract from the indignity of the surrender by turning things into a circus – in essence had his lawyers negotiate the booking to take place during the prime viewing hours for the cable news networks.

    Trump has posted on his Truth Social platform that he would be arrested on Thursday, but the prime-time scheduling was finalized in recent days after his lawyers met with the Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, at her office on Monday.

    Trump returned to his instinct to maximize television ratings to his benefit for his surrender to authorities in Atlanta, the people said, and could extend the coverage of the proceedings by speaking afterwards in front of cameras and reporters.

    At the Rice Street jail north-west of downtown Atlanta, where defendants charged in Fulton county are typically taken, the booking process involves a mug shot, fingerprinting and having height and weight recorded.

    Trump could face major difficulties with that argument, however, since he would have to show that taking steps to change the outcome of the 2020 election in Georgia amounted to him acting in his official capacity as president, legal experts have said.

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