After all manner of hand-wringing, consternation and discussion, it’s finally happened.
Former President Donald Trump turned himself into the Fulton Country Jail in Atlanta on Thursday and thus produced one of the most eagerly anticipated mugshots in American history:
TRUMP’S MUGSHOT HAS BEEN RELEASED ??? pic.twitter.com/1CaXyNgLpT
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The shocking photo came less than 24 hours after Wednesday’s inaugural 2024 Republican primary debate, which Trump skipped, citing his commanding lead in the GOP polls.
The mugshot of a former U.S. president is both jarring and historic, being the first of its kind.
It also has brought up plenty of concern from political pundits who have noted that incumbent President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice is locking up his chief political rival — the sort of scene typically reserved for full-blown banana republics and/or dictatorships.
But while Trump might win the GOP race and then take the White House from Biden following the November 2024 general election, for now, the former president has been booked and processed in Fulton County and has his own issues to work through.
Trump turned himself in at the Fulton County Jail as part of the fourth indictment levied against the former president this year.
This indictment focuses on Trump’s purported role in the “criminal enterprise” that allegedly sought to overturn Georgia’s results in the 2020 presidential election. Biden won the state by fewer than 12,000 votes.
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