{"id":2011299,"date":"2023-08-24T19:35:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T23:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-supporters-show-up-in-a-big-way-ahead-of-georgia-booking\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T19:38:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T23:38:24","slug":"trump-supporters-show-up-in-a-big-way-ahead-of-georgia-booking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-supporters-show-up-in-a-big-way-ahead-of-georgia-booking\/","title":{"rendered":"Large turnout of Trump supporters anticipated before Georgia election."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-supporters-show-up-in-a-big-way-ahead-of-georgia-booking%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2011299&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Trump Supporters Show \u2062Up in \u2063a Big Way\u2063 Ahead of Georgia Booking<\/h2>\n<p>Hours before former President Donald Trump was expected to turn himself in at the \u2062Fulton County \u200bJail in Atlanta on charges related\u200c to his efforts to remain in power after his 2020 election \u200bloss, dozens of his supporters already had gathered\u2064 Thursday morning outside the facility.<\/p>\n<p>And the crowd grew\u200d steadily as \u2064the day progressed.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the fourth time \u2062this year that Trump, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-increasingly-unlikely-to-call-themselves-progressives-ahead-of-midterms\/\" title=\"Democrats Increasingly Unlikely to Call Themselves \u201cProgressives\u201d Ahead of Midterms\">early front-runner<\/a> in the 2024 Republican presidential \u200drace, is booked on criminal charges. But unlike his previous arrests,\u200b which happened in courthouses just before initial \u2064appearances before a judge, this time he will turn \u2064himself in at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ex-fbi-agent-amused-nasty-conditions-georgia-jail-trump-will-forced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notoriously troubled jail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also different from\u2064 his previous surrenders: Authorities \u200care\u2063 expected to take \u200ca\u200c booking\u200b photo of the former president.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and\u200b 18 others were indicted last week, accused by Fulton County District Attorney \u200dFani Willis\u200c of participating\u2064 in a sprawling scheme to \u200dundermine\u200b the will of Georgia voters who had narrowly rejected the Republican incumbent in favor of Democrat\u200d Joe \u200cBiden.<\/p>\n<p>Many of\u2063 the others\u2063 charged turned themselves in \u200cat the jail \u2062earlier in this \u2062week, \u200cincluding Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis on Wednesday and John Eastman \u200con Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/georgia-freedom-caucus-chair-signs-onto-move-end-fulton-county-prosecutors-impeachment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fulton\u2062 County<\/a> Sheriff\u2063 Pat Labat has said Trump and the \u2063others\u2062 in this case will\u2062 be treated\u200b like anyone else \u2014\u2062 notably saying \u2063at a news conference this month: \u201cUnless somebody tells me differently, we are following our normal practices, and so it doesn\u2019t matter your status \u2014 we\u2019ll\u200b have a mugshot ready for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The Scene\u2063 Outside the Jail<\/h3>\n<p>But\u200d the scene outside the jail \u2062was anything but normal Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It \u2062included supporters of the \u2063former president, such \u2062as Cliff\u2063 MacMorris, 66, from Naples,\u2063 Florida, who held a flag that read, \u201cTrump Won Save America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2062 and his\u2063 wife, Georgine, spent the night in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t have \u2064the right to persecute somebody unjustly,\u201d Cliff MacMorris said.<\/p>\n<p>His wife\u200c said \u200dthe indictments against\u2064 the \u2064former president were politically motivated because of the four years of \u201cprosperity, safety, \u2064freedom\u201d that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/?s=Trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a> achieved in \u2064the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey must be\u2062 worried about him for some reason,\u201d she\u200c said.<\/p>\n<p>Sharon Anderson, \u206467, from east Tennessee, was outside the\u2062 jail in Atlanta \u200bfor \u200da second \u200bstraight day. She had spent the night in a car with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-supporters-show-up-in-a-big-way-ahead-of-georgia-booking\/\" title=\"Large turnout of Trump supporters anticipated before Georgia election.\">air conditioning\u2063 running<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m here to \u200dsupport Donald J. Trump. I want him to see some of the millions that \u200dshow up at the polls\u2063 for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said\u200c the\u2062 indictments against Trump had only strengthened her support for him. \u200bThe\u2062 former president questioned the\u200d election\u200c results, which\u200b isn\u2019t a crime,\u200b she said.<\/p>\n<p>While\u2063 the\u2062 crowd was mostly made up\u200d of Trump supporters, 64-year-old Laurie \u200bArbeiter, who is from\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-fbi-arrests-two-allegedly-operating-sinister-chinese-police-station-new-york-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City<\/a>, wore \u200ca shirt \u2064that said \u201cArrest Trump\u201d and carried more\u2064 than 50 black-and-white signs with her, including ones that read \u201cConvict Trump\u201d\u2062 and \u201cTrump is\u200d a Traitor.\u201d She said she\u2019d also traveled to other\u2064 places where Trump was indicted.<\/p>\n<p>As midday temperatures hovered near 90 degrees, sheriff\u2019s deputies in vests toweled off and sought shade under a\u200d tree.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The main Fulton\u2064 County Jail, also known as the Rice\u2062 Street Jail, is\u2063 located in a\u2062 traditionally industrial \u2063part of\u200d northwest Atlanta where warehouses are being redeveloped\u200b for retail and\u200b residential \u2064use. Opened \u2064in 1989, it\u2063 is set back from the\u2062 street by a long, tree-lined driveway that\u200c leads \u2064to\u200c a parking lot in front of the jail\u2019s imposing fa\u00e7ade.<\/p>\n<p>On most days, the public and news\u2063 media are free \u2062to\u2062 drive right up to\u2063 the front of\u2064 the jail, and news cameras have captured \u2064the arrivals and departures of \u200dmany <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/well-be-watching-more-than-200-high-profile-women-demand-big-tech-stop-pandemic-of-online-abuse-against-women-and-girls\/\" title=\"\u2018We\u2019ll Be Watching\u2019: More Than 200 High-Profile Women Demand Big Tech Stop \u2018Pandemic Of Online Abuse Against Women And Girls\u2019\">high-profile people<\/a> who have been booked into the jail.<\/p>\n<p>But with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fani-willis-requests-october-date-trump-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">booking<\/a> of a former president looming, the driveway off the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/erickson-a-moment-for-jim-demint\/\" title=\"ERICKSON: A Moment For Jim DeMint\">main street<\/a> in front of\u200d the jail has been closed off for days, with no reporters\u2062 or cameras allowed within viewing distance of the building.<\/p>\n<p>Security tightened further on Thursday. While cars had been allowed on the Rice Street side of the jail a day earlier, sheriff\u2019s deputies cut off vehicle traffic on Thursday. They also set up \u2064barricades\u2064 to keep protesters and media \u2062back. Some \u200bdeputies wore vests and covered their faces with black masks. They formed a \u200bline \u2062along\u2062 the street.<\/p>\n<p>Scores\u200b of supporters of the former president already were there by mid-morning, some \u200cwaving\u200d flags \u200dwith Trump\u2019s name. Members of a\u200b group called Blacks for Trump\u2063 hurled racial slurs at black\u200b sheriff\u2019s \u2064deputies.<\/p>\n<p>But the demonstration was otherwise\u2063 peaceful early.<\/p>\n<p>While others who are booked in \u2062the jail spend months \u2064or even years\u200b in \u200cthe facility awaiting \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-explains-able-hold-together-facing-four-indictments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">indictment<\/a> or trial, Trump is not expected\u200c to spend time \u200dat the jail \u2062once he is \u200cbooked.<\/p>\n<p>The jail has \u2064been\u200b plagued by \u200ccrumbling infrastructure \u2062and overcrowding. \u2063On Thursday morning,\u200c the\u2064 jail housed 2,618 people, above\u2062 its capacity of 2,254, according to data from the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200d U.S. Department\u200b of Justice last month announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-announces-investigation-into-andrew-brown-jr-shooting\/\" title=\"FBI Announces Investigation Into Andrew Brown Jr. Shooting\">civil rights investigation<\/a> \u200binto jail conditions in Fulton County, citing violence, filthy conditions and\u200d the death last year of a man whose body was\u2063 found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/fulton-county\/fulton-county-settles-4-million-case-man-eaten-alive-by-bed-bugs-fulton-jail\/QGJYJ5UYKJDXNMJ6JOYXYZMZUY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">covered\u2062 in insects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic\">The Western Journal has reviewed \u2064this Associated \u200bPress story and may have\u2062 altered it\u2064 prior\u2064 to publication \u200bto ensure that it meets our\u200d editorial standards.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-scores-trump-supporters-show-support-outside-georgia-jail-ahead-expected-surrender\/\">Trump Supporters Show Up in a\u2064 Big Way\u2063 Ahead of Georgia \u2064Booking<\/a> appeared first \u2064on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of supporters gathered outside Atlanta&#8217;s Fulton County Jail as former President Donald Trump was set to surrender on charges linked to his post-election actions. 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