{"id":2011745,"date":"2023-08-25T09:08:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T13:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whats-next-for-trump-following-arrest-in-georgia-rico-case\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T09:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T13:09:52","slug":"whats-next-for-trump-following-arrest-in-georgia-rico-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whats-next-for-trump-following-arrest-in-georgia-rico-case\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Trump&#8217;s next move after Georgia RICO case arrest?"},"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%2Fwhats-next-for-trump-following-arrest-in-georgia-rico-case%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=2011745&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>Former President Donald Trump Surrenders in Georgia \u200cElection Interference Case<\/h2>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump surrendered to and was released by Fulton \u200bCounty officials on\u200d Thursday night, setting\u2063 in\u200d motion the next phase in the Georgia\u200b election interference\u200b case.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and 18 co-defendants are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffrey-clark-surrenders-to-georgia-officials-in-connection-to-trump-rico-case\/\" title=\"Jeffrey Clark surrenders to Georgia officials for Trump RICO case.\">facing sweeping charges<\/a>, including violating Georgia&#8217;s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, in\u2064 alleged efforts to\u2063 overturn the \u200bstate&#8217;s 2020 general election results.\u200d So far, 17 defendants, \u200cincluding Trump, have surrendered to authorities.<\/p>\n<h3>Top Three Takeaways from\u2063 the Republican Debate \u200cin Milwaukee<\/h3>\n<p>Sixteen of the 17 have \u2064been \u200dreleased\u200d on bond \u2014\u200b Harrison Floyd, head of the group Black Voices for Trump, remains in custody after he failed to negotiate a\u2062 bond agreement with Fulton County \u200dDistrict Attorney \u200bFani Willis&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was released on a\u2062 $200,000 bond, the highest among the \u200bdefendants, and took a mug shot \u2014 unlike his \u2063three previous surrenders in separate criminal\u200b cases. Before\u2064 and after his release in Atlanta, he repeated his claims the 2020 election was\u2062 &#8220;rigged&#8221; and \u2064&#8221;stolen,&#8221; taking shots at Willis\u200c for \u2063being a &#8220;radical\u2063 Democrat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a very \u2062sad day for America. \u200dThis has never happened. If you challenge an election, you should be able to challenge an election, and\u200d I thought the election was a rigged\u200d election, a stolen election,&#8221; Trump said before boarding his plane, adding\u200d that he did &#8220;nothing wrong, and everybody knows it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s next for the former president and the co-defendants?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Willis made a\u200b surprise decision on Thursday and asked\u200d for \u2063an \u2062Oct. 23\u2064 trial start date for Trump and his co-defendants.<\/p>\n<p>The district\u2064 attorney had stated she intended\u2064 to try all 19 \u200bdefendants together. Willis\u2063 had also said since the \u2062indictment earlier this month that \u200dher team of prosecutors would need roughly six months\u2062 before a trial could\u2063 start. Now, she has had to modify her schedule rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200dproposed October date \u200bcomes after\u2062 co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro asked for a speedy\u200d trial. Fulton County Superior\u200d Court Judge \u2063Scott McAfee \u2063responded on Thursday\u2062 afternoon,\u200c agreeing to the early trial start \u2063for Chesebro alone, for now.<\/p>\n<p>Arraignments are already slated to begin next week \u200cand run through Sept. 8. McAfee issued a scheduling order \u200cfor Chesebro&#8217;s case, \u200dspecifically: Chesebro \u2063would \u200bbe \u200carraigned on Sept. 6, and discovery \u2064from all parties would\u200b be due\u2062 on Sept. 30.<\/p>\n<p>Under Georgia\u200b law, defendants \u2064who make \u200bdemands for a \u2063speedy trial in Fulton County are \u200bsupposed to go to \u2064trial within four months. If \u2062not,\u2063 it \u2062could be grounds for \u2064dismissing the charges altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whats-next-for-trump-following-arrest-in-georgia-rico-case\/\" title=\"What's Trump's next move after Georgia RICO case arrest?\">legal counsel\u200c responded<\/a> to Willis&#8217;s proposed Oct. 23 date, filing a motion\u2062 in objection to the start date and\u2062 alerting her that it would, if \u200cnecessary, seek to &#8220;sever&#8221;\u200d the former president&#8217;s case from \u200dChesebro&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Former White House chief\u2064 of\u2062 staff Mark Meadows, \u200canother co-defendant, faces a hearing in\u2062 U.S.\u200d District Court\u2063 in \u200dAtlanta on Monday morning over his bid to move the state\u200d election \u200ccase to federal court.<\/p>\n<p>Willis has subpoenaed \u200bGeorgia Secretary\u2063 of State\u2063 Brad Raffensperger and Frances \u200cWatson, a lead investigator of 2020 election matters, to appear at the hearing. She also subpoenaed two Trump attorneys, Kurt Hilbert and Alex Kaufman, to appear Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Meadows \u2064attempted to postpone and fight his arrest at Fulton County\u200b Jail, but he surrendered \u2064on Thursday afternoon ahead of Trump.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here to \u2062read more from The Washington \u200dExaminer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>When will Trump return\u2064 to Georgia?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While Trump&#8217;s legal \u2063team\u200b battles \u200cwith\u2064 Willis\u200c about the trial start date,\u2064 the former president will have to keep Georgia on his short list of places he&#8217;ll be\u2063 stopping in the coming months. Unlike \u2063his previous arrests, Trump \u200cwasn&#8217;t\u200c arraigned on Thursday, so he will have to return to \u200bFulton County and appear before a judge before his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-lawyer-says-legal-team-will-be-well-prepared-in-rest-of-impeachment-trial\/\" title=\"Trump Lawyer Says Legal Team Will Be \u2018Well Prepared\u2019 in Rest of Impeachment Trial\">trial moves forward<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The timeline for Trump \u2064and his co-defendants&#8217; \u2064arraignments isn&#8217;t clear. However, Willis has proposed in her scheduling order the defendants be arraigned the week of Sept. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump was surrendered to and released by Fulton County officials, marking the start of the next phase in the Georgia election interference case. Trump and 18 co-defendants face extensive charges, including violating Georgia&#8217;s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, for their alleged attempts to overturn the state&#8217;s 2020 general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2011746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2011745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2011746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}