Trump cashes in on historic mug shot with ‘never surrender’ merch as last co-defendants booked at jail: Live

Donald Trump is already trying to cash in on his historic mug shot by urging supporters to fork out $34 for a t-shirt featuring his booking photo and the slogan “never surrender” — despite having just surrendered to authorities.

Less than two hours after his arrest on Thursday, the Trump campaign sent out an email plugging the merchandise.

Mr Trump also shared his scowling mug shot – and a link to his campaign website – in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, in what marked his first return to the social platform since he was banned in the wake of the January 6 Capitol riot.

Mr Trump was booked and released from the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta after surrendering to authorities on 13 charges of attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. His booking photo represents the first and only time a current or former president has been forced to undergo a mug shot.

The last two co-defendants of the 18 charged alongside the former president, Trevian Kutti and Stephen Lee, turned themselves in at the jail on Friday morning, just an hour before the deadline imposed by District Attorney Fani Willis.

Key points

• Trump scowls in historic mug shot after Fulton County Jail arrest

• Trump tries to cash in on mug shot with ‘never surrender’ campaign merchandise

• Trump’s weight in Georgia arrest records raises eyebrows

• Noon deadline looms for two remaining Trump codefendants

• Georgia prosecutor requests October trial date for Trump and co-defendants

• Trump rails against ‘terrible experience’ in jail where he was ‘treated very nicely’

Donald Trump wont have to prep for criminal trials, claims his lawyer

17:57 , Graeme Massie

“If it was a normal person, honestly, Shannon, I could understand the concern. President Trump is not your average person. He’s incredibly intelligent,” his attorney and legal spokesperson Alina Habba told Fox News Sunday.

“He also knows the facts because he lived them,” she continued. “What is he going to have to be prepped for, the truth? You don’t have to prep much when you’ve done nothing wrong, so that I’m not concerned with.”

Mr Trump faces 91 felony charges across the four legal cases in which he has been indicted. These include the January 6 case, the Mar-a-Lago documents, case, the Georgia election interference case and the Manhattan hush-money case.

Trump says he won club championship and claims score of 67

17:05 , Graeme Massie

Donald Trump says he won the Senior Club Championship at his Bedminster, New Jersey, course with a claimed five-under-par score of 67.

“I am pleased to report, for those that care, that I just won the Senior Club Championship (must be over 50 years old!) at Bedminster (Trump National Golf Club), shooting a round of 67,” Mr Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday.

His score was an impressive 8 shots better than Phil Mickelson scored at the LIV Golf event at the same course a few weeks ago, and Mr Trump acknowledged that people may have some reservations about his claim.

“Some people will think that sounds low, but there is no hanky/lanky,” he wrote. “Many people watch, plus I am surrounded by Secret Service Agents. Not much you can do even if you wanted to, and I don’t. For some reason, I am just a good golfer/athlete – I have won many Club Championships, and it is always a great honor!”

All of the mug shots from the Georgia arrests

16:00 , Sam Rkaina

Trump and his cronies have long been pictured at the White House and political rallies.

But now, the billionaire and some of his closest allies and fellow election deniers are the faces of humiliating mug shots.

On the morning of Friday 25 August, the last of the 19 defendants charged as part of a criminal enterprise working to overturn the 2020 election in the state of Georgia surrendered to authorities in Fulton County.

The last to surrender was Christian pastor Stephen Lee.

As the defendants turned themselves in, they had their fingerprints and mug shots taken before being released on bond.

Click here to see a who’s who of all those involved - and their mugshots.

Giuliani appears to have grown two inches according to booking record

15:00 , Sam Rkaina

Rudy Giuliani seemingly gained two inches in height during his Fulton County Jail booking as skepticism over Donald Trump and his associates’ vital statistics continues.

New York City’s former mayor surrendered in Georgia for his alleged role in the election interference case and was initially listed on the booking sheet as 5ft 9 and 180 pounds.

Hours later, Mr Trump’s former lawyer had his numbers changed by officials to 5ft 11 and 230 pounds, reported The Washington Post.

An individual who was with Mr Giuliani during his booking told the newspaper that they did not remember any Fulton County officials asking the former prosecutor about his height or weight, nor did they get him to stand on a scale.

The source told the newspaper that none of the numbers that appeared on the jail’s website matched driver’s license details.

Click here for the full story.

Trump’s mug shot: One image, one face, one American moment

14:00 , Graeme Massie

A camera clicks. In a fraction of a second, the shutter opens and then closes, freezing forever the image in front of it.

When the camera shutter blinked inside a jail in downtown Atlanta on Thursday, it both created and documented a tiny inflection point in American life. Captured for posterity, there was a former president of the United States, for the first time in history, under arrest and captured in the sort of frame more commonly associated with drug dealers or drunken drivers. The trappings of power gone, for that split second.

Left behind: an enduring image that will appear in history books long after Donald Trump is gone.

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One image, one face, one American moment: The Donald Trump mug shot

Fox News host ridiculed over Trump mugshot reaction

13:00 , Sam Rkaina

Fox News host Jesse Watters has been ridiculed for telling his audience that Donald Trump “looks good and looks hard” in his Georgia mug shot.

The right-wing host echoed many conservatives in complimenting the four-times indicted, former president over his historic booking photo.

Watters bizarrely felt compelled to say that he was complimenting Mr Trump “with an unblemished record of heterosexuality”.

A grand jury in Georgia delivered 13 felony charges against Mr Trump for his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the state.

These charges included conspiracy to commit forgery, filing false documents, Solicitation of Violation of Oath by Public Officer.

Fox News contributor absurdly claims Trump was only seeking a recount with ‘find votes’ demand

12:00 , Graeme Massie

A Fox News contributor suggested that Donald Trump’s call to Georgia election officials asking them to “find votes” was simply a request for a recount and not an attempt to subvert the state’s election results.

In the wake of Mr Trump’s fourth indictment — this time in Fulton County, Georgia, where he is accused of trying to reverse the state’s 2020 presidential election results — Fox News contributor and George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley offered an assessment of why the charges against the former president are bogus.

“I think this is criminalizing the challenging of elections,” he said during Thursday night’s edition of Hannity on Fox News. “Basically, you have a Democratic prosecutor saying, ‘How dare you challenge a Democratic victory?’”

Fox News contributor claims Trump was only seeking a recount with ‘find votes’ demand

What to expect after Donald Trump’s Georgia surrender

10:01 , Graeme Massie

Here’s what we know about the case and what’s next for Mr Trump in Georgia.

What’s next for Donald Trump after his Georgia surrender?

Trump’s mugshot has given MAGA its own scowling, vindictive iconic image

07:58 , Graeme Massie

Al Capone. Lee Harvey Oswald. OJ Simpson. And now, Donald Trump.

In the annals of American history, few mugshots are so iconic that they end up in history books. When they do, though, they become cultural touchstones, evocative of the times and tumult in which they were taken.

Certainly, the mugshot of the 45^th President of the United States, indicted for his alleged role in conspiring to subvert the 2020 election in Georgia, is one of those images. Future historians will look at it as one of the defining photos of our era, one marked by deep divisions and the irreconcilable realities the two Americas – that of the Trumpian movement, and that of the rest of us – find ourselves in.

Skylar Baker-Jordan writes:

Trump’s mugshot has given MAGA its own scowling, vindictive iconic image

Trump raised $7.1m since he was booked Thursday at an Atlanta jail

07:40 , Arpan Rai

Donald Trump has raised nearly $20m in the past three weeks, his presidential campaign spokesperson said on Saturday.

The last three weeks roughly coincides with his indictment in federal and state cases connected to his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

But, since appearing on Thursday to have his mug shot taken in a racketeering and fraud case in Atlanta, Georgia, the former president brought in $7.1m, his spokesperson Steven Cheung said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

On Friday alone, he brought in $4.18m, making it the highest-grossing day of his campaign so far, Cheung said.

His mug shot, posted by a Georgia courthouse on Thursday evening, has been turned into T-shirts, shot glasses, mugs, posters and even bobblehead dolls by friends and foes alike.

The shot of Trump with a red tie, glistening hair, and an icy scowl was taken as the Republican presidential front-runner was arrested on more than a dozen felony charges, part of a criminal case stemming from his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

Biden chuckles over Trump’s mugshot: ‘Handsome guy. Wonderful guy’

06:04 , Graeme Massie

President Joe Biden chuckled when asked about his predecessor Donald Trump’s mug shot taken at the Fulton County jail in Atlanta, Georgia.

Mr Biden was asked by Bloomberg about the photo when coming out of a pilates and spin class in Lake Tahoe, California. The president said he saw the image on TV.

“Handsome guy. Wonderful guy,” Mr Biden said.

Mr Biden was booed by bystanders as he approached the press. He said he watched at least an hour and twenty minutes of the first Republican debate, which didn’t feature Mr Trump.

The president said he didn’t “learn much” from the Milwaukee showdown.

Biden chuckles over Trump’s mugshot: ‘Handsome guy. Wonderful guy’

Trump’s weight and height in Georgia arrest records raises eyebrows

04:10 , Graeme Massie

Consternation, confusion, incredulity, and amusement abound on the release of Donald Trump’s Fulton County Jail booking record.

Donald Trump’s weight in Georgia arrest records raises eyebrows

Question looms on Trump’s legal rights over mug shot usage in campaign

02:07 , Graeme Massie

What legal rights, if any, Donald Trump’s campaign may have over the mug shot’s reproduction are unclear, however. The photo was distributed by the Fulton County court to media outlets, including Reuters.

Mug shots taken by US federal courts are generally in the public domain, although Georgia’s state policy may be different.

Many US states have “right of publicity” laws that prevent the use of a person’s image in commerce without their permission. Federal trademark law also bars false advertising and endorsements, and Trump would also likely be able to sue under other state laws.

But political parody goods may receive some protection from intellectual-property claims under the US Constitution, and attorneys say that whether Trump would actually sue is more of a strategic question than a legal one.

“In all likelihood, given how polarising Trump has been, and everything that is already in the marketplace around his likeness, it would not likely be a legal priority,” trademark attorney Josh Gerben said.

Trump’s pose, glaring into the camera with his face tilted down, echoes his trademark pose in “The Apprentice,” the reality television show he starred in for several years.

The former president told Fox News Digital in an interview Thursday night that he only did the mug shot because Georgia officials insisted. “It is not a comfortable feeling, especially when you’ve done nothing wrong,” he said.

Trump invents new arrest charge: ‘Telling people to watch Newsmax’

01:05 , Graeme Massie

No matter what you think of the upstart rightwing network, it’s not a crime to watch it or encourage others to do so.

Trump bizarrely claims he was arrested for ‘telling people to watch Newsmax’

All of the mug shots from the Georgia arrests: From smiling Jenna Ellis to scowling Donald Trump

Saturday 26 August 2023 23:04 , Graeme Massie

He and his cronies have long been pictured at the White House and political rallies.

But now, Donald Trump and some of his closest allies and fellow election deniers are the faces of humiliating mug shots.

On the morning of Friday 25 August, the last of the 19 defendants charged as part of a criminal enterprise working to overturn the 2020 election in the state of Georgia surrendered to authorities in Fulton County.

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All the mugshots of Trump and co-defendants after surrendering in Georgia

Fox News’ Jesse Watters ridiculed for raving that Trump ‘looks good and looks hard’ in Georgia mug shot

Saturday 26 August 2023 22:08 , Graeme Massie

Conservative host felt compelled to say he was complimenting Mr Trump ‘with an unblemished record of heterosexuality’.

Jesse Watters ridiculed for raving that Trump ‘looks hard’ in Georgia mug shot

Hours after he surrendered in Georgia, Trump began selling ‘Never Surrender’ t-shirts with his mug shot

Saturday 26 August 2023 21:04 , Graeme Massie

Predictably, almost as soon as the scowling mug shot was released, the former president’s re-election campaign began using it to try to fundraise for his 2024 presidential run.

Less than 90 minutes in from his release from the Atlanta jail, the campaign sent an email to supporters saying it would give away a “free” premium cotton t-shirt featuring the historic booking photo – in exchange for a $47 donation.

Trump is selling ‘never surrender’ shirts - with mug shot taken during his surrender

Eric Trump denies report Mar-a-Lago sold in days before father’s Georgia arrest

Saturday 26 August 2023 20:02 , Graeme Massie

Eric Trump has knocked back a report claiming that his father’s Mar-a-Lago private club was sold for $422m days before his arrest in Georgia.

A listing on the real estate site Zillow had claimed that the Palm Beach, Florida, club had been sold on 4 August to a company called Mar-a-Lago Inc.

Reports suggested that the company was controlled by Donald Trump Jr.

However, that was angrily denied by Eric Trump in a social media post on Friday.

Eric Trump denies report Mar-a-Lago sold for $422m days before dad’s Georgia arrest

Trump joins a notorious album of (alleged) criminals

Saturday 26 August 2023 19:15 , Sheila Flynn

Donald Trump has become the latest addition – and the first United States president – to join that infamous cadre of the police-portraited arrested. The ever-publicity-conscious former reality TV star has already acknowledged the iconic status of any possible picture, trying to cash in on the prospect by releasing a fake one on a t-shirt (for $47 as a re-election campaign “donation”) back in April. But any real picture had yet to materialise – until today.

With one glowering mug shot, Trump joins a notorious album of (alleged) criminals

Palin predicts civil war after Trump arrested in Georgia

Saturday 26 August 2023 18:15 , Oliver O'Connell

Sarah Palin, the former Masked Singer contestant and reality television host who served half of a four-year term as Alaska’s governor nearly two decades ago, said the arrest of former president Donald Trump on racketeering and election interference charges could prompt a second US civil war.

Andrew Feinberg reports.

Sarah Palin predicts civil war after Trump arrested in Georgia

Explained: Why Trump wants to move his Georgia case to federal court

Saturday 26 August 2023 17:15 , Andrew Feinberg

It took less than a day after a Fulton County, Georgia grand jury indicted former president Donald Trump, his former chief of staff Mark Meadows, and 17 other defendants in a sprawling racketeering case for one of them to invoke a rarely used federal law in an attempt to move the case into federal court.

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Why does Trump want to move Georgia case to federal court?

Stormy Daniels reacts to Trump’s booking record after he surrenders at Atlanta jail

Saturday 26 August 2023 16:10 , Graeme Massie

Mr Trump was arrested in Georgia as part of the state’s investigation into his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Stormy Daniels reacts to Trump’s booking record after he surrenders at Atlanta jail

‘Handsome guy. Wonderful guy’: Biden reacts to Trump mug shot

Saturday 26 August 2023 14:15 , Oliver O'Connell

President Joe Biden chuckled when asked about his predecessor Donald Trump’s mug shot taken at the Fulton County jail in Atlanta, Georgia.

Mr Biden was asked about the photo when coming out of a pilates and spin class in Lake Tahoe, California.

Biden chuckles over Trump’s mugshot: ‘Handsome guy. Wonderful guy’

Big trouble for Trump in new poll after charges in Georgia case

Saturday 26 August 2023 13:15 , Gustaf Kilander

The indictments against Donald Trump may help him get the Republican presidential nomination, but they’re harming his prospects of winning the general election against President Joe Biden.

That’s among the results of a new poll from Politico Magazine and Ipsos which has revealed that the American people are taking the cases against Mr Trump seriously, with the survey revealing the electorate’s particular focus on the 2020 election subversion proscution brought by the Department of Justice.

The poll also shows that most Americans remain sceptical of Mr Trump’s arguments that the cases against him have no merit and that they’re part of a politically motivated witch hunt and a weaponization of the justice system.

New poll spells big trouble for Trump after charges in Georgia case

McMaster? Noem? Ramaswamy? Trump mulls possible Veep picks in post-arrest Newsmax interview

Saturday 26 August 2023 07:15 , Maroosha Muzaffar

Donald Trump has mentioned Henry McMaster, Kristi Noem and Vivek Ramaswamy as his possible picks for vice president in a post-arrest interview after a dramatic day at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta.

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Trump names McMaster, Noem, Ramaswamy as possible Veep picks in post-arrest interview

Trump decries ‘travesty of justice'

Saturday 26 August 2023 06:37 , Graeme Massie

Donald Trump was captured glaring at the camera in the first such photograph of a former president in US history, yet another extraordinary moment for the front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination.

After spending about 20 minutes at the jail on Thursday evening, the 77-year-old former president repeated the claim that Willis’s prosecution – along with the others he faces – is politically motivated.

“What has taken place here is a travesty of justice,” he told reporters. “I did nothing wrong, and everybody knows it.”

One of the final defendants to surrender, former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, turned himself in early on Friday and was released on $100,000 bond, records show.

Trump has not yet entered a plea in the Georgia case. He has pleaded not guilty in two federal cases accusing him of seeking to overturn the 2020 election and retaining classified documents after leaving office, and to a New York state case linked to hush money payments to a porn star.

Trump co-defendant remains in jail after telling judge he cannot afford private lawyer

Saturday 26 August 2023 06:25 , Reuters

One of Donald Trump‘s co-defendants in a wide-ranging election-fraud case in Georgia remained behind bars yesterday, after he told a judge that he could not afford a private attorney to represent him and was denied bond.

Harrison Floyd said at his first court appearance that he could not afford a private lawyer and had been denied representation by a public defender because he did not qualify.

Mr Floyd, who appeared virtually, said that it typically cost between $40,000 to $100,000 just to retain a private lawyer to fly to Georgia.

“I cannot afford an attorney for something like this,” he said, telling Fulton County Superior Court Judge Emily Richardson that he did not want to put his family in debt.

The judge told him that he could either hire a lawyer or represent himself.

It was not immediately clear why Mr Floyd was told he could not be represented by a public defender. Generally, defendants must meet certain financial requirements to qualify.

For now, he will remain in Fulton County Jail, which is being investigated by the US Department of Justice for violence and unsanitary conditions, as well as 15 inmate deaths last year. One of those was a man whose family says in a lawsuit was “eaten alive” by bedbugs.

Mug shot becomes Trump’s his first tweet since ban over Jan 6 riot

Saturday 26 August 2023 06:15 , Eric Garcia

Former president Donald Trump posted his first tweet on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Thursday evening when he shared his mug shot after he had been arrested in Fulton County, Georgia.

Mr Trump’s account had been suspended under the social media platform’s previous ownership for his incitement of the January 6 riot.

Trump posts mug shot as his first tweet since ban over Jan 6 riot

‘We did nothing wrong’: Trump proclaims his innocence

Saturday 26 August 2023 05:15 , Eric Garcia

Former president Donald Trump proclaimed his innocence Thursday evening after being booked at the Fulton County Jail in Georgia on racketeering charges.

The former president spoke to reporters after he was booked and had his mugshot taken at the Fulton County Jail after a grand jury indicted him for his scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.

The now twice-impeached, four-times-indicted Mr Trump called his arrest a sad day for the country.

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Trump proclaims innocence after booking in Fulton County Jail: ‘We did nothing wrong’

Full story: Trump booked into Fulton County jail after surrendering to Georgia authorities

Saturday 26 August 2023 04:15 , Andrew Feinberg

Former president Donald Trump on Thursday has been released from custody after he surrendered and was briefly placed under arrest by officers with the Fulton County, Georgia sheriff’s department at the Fulton County jail in northwest Atlanta.

Mr Trump, who was indicted on 15 August following a sprawling election interference probe overseen by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, was booked into the Fulton County jail on 13 separate charges, including a single charge of allegedly violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute.

The former president’s surrender comes after many of his highest-profile co-defendants cycled in and out of the same facility in recent days, including his former personal lawyer, ex-New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Mark Meadows, his last White House chief of staff.

Trump is booked into Fulton County jail after surrendering to Georgia authorities

‘Treated very nicely’ but Trump still rails against ‘terrible experience’ in jail

Saturday 26 August 2023 03:15 , Maroosha Muzaffar

Donald Trump has recounted his “terrible experience” despite being “treated very nicely” at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta after being booked and released from there.

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Trump rails against ‘terrible experience’ in jail where he was ‘treated very nicely’

Trump’s criminal charges and lawsuits: Where do they all stand now?

Saturday 26 August 2023 02:15 , Oliver O'Connell

Donald Trump has never been more vulnerable.

Without the privileges and prestige of the presidency to protect him, Mr Trump is facing serious lawsuits and criminal indictments across New York, Florida, Georgia and Washington.

Federal officials, local prosecutors, and individuals are going after him for everything from his private conduct to his political maneuvering during the 2020 election. If even just one of these efforts are successful, the US could see its first-ever former president in prison.

Here, The Independent explains each major case:

Tracking Trump’s criminal charges and lawsuits - and where they stand

ICYMI: Trump scowls in historic mug shot

Saturday 26 August 2023 01:15 , Graeme Massie

Donald Trump scowled in his historic mug shot that was released after the former president surrendered at the notorious Fulton County Jail.

Mr Trump was captured in the iconic photo as he was arrested in Atlanta over criminal charges that he conspired with 18 associates to interfere in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.

It is the first time in American history that a sitting or former president has had a booking photo taken by law enforcement, in this case Fulton County Sheriff’s Department.

Trump scowls in historic mug shot after arrest at Fulton County Jail

Is Trump going to prison?

Saturday 26 August 2023 00:15 , Oliver O'Connell

It’s what everyone really wants to know...

Will Donald Trump go to prison?

Marjorie Taylor Greene taunted by fellow Trump fanatic at Georgia arrest rally

Friday 25 August 2023 23:15 , Oliver O'Connell

It’s Loomer v Greene again, as Bevan Hurley reports.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is taunted by fellow Trump fanatic at Atlanta arrest rally

Voices: Trump’s mugshot was a theatrical masterstroke with a showman’s flair for the outrageous

Friday 25 August 2023 22:30 , Oliver O'Connell

Veteran Washington observer Jon Sopel writes:

It is a theatrical masterstroke with a showman’s flair for the outrageous. While for most normal humans this would be a source of maximum shame and embarrassment, for Trump it’s an opportunity; he is wired differently. The mugshot is now available on all Trump merch and tat. Mugshot equals “kerching” and more campaign dollars.

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Trump’s mugshot was a theatrical masterstroke – and totally outrageous | Jon Sopel

As some GOP candidates balk at continued support, Ukraine aid faces stress test

Friday 25 August 2023 22:10 , Oliver O'Connell

For President Joe Biden, strong backing for Ukraine’s effort to repel Russia’s invasion has been a rare issue where he’s mustered bipartisan support.

But this week’s first GOP presidential debate — and recent comments on Ukraine by the 2024 GOP polling leader and former president, Donald Trump — show that unusual unity will face a stress test as the 2024 presidential campaign intensifies and the leading Republican contenders show antipathy toward the American backing of Ukraine.

There long has been an isolationist strain in the United States, particularly in the Republican Party, but rarely has it been shared by so many candidates for president.

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Ukraine aid faces a stress test as some GOP 2024 presidential candidates balk at continued support

Ben Shapiro’s horrified reaction to Trump’s mug shot backfires

Friday 25 August 2023 21:50 , Graig Graziosi

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro was called out on X/Twitter after he insisted that Donald Trump‘s Fulton County mugshot was “vindictive,” despite earlier comments supporting the criminal indictment of presidents.

The conservative commenter appears to have changed his stance on the indictment of presidents since 2014.

Ben Shapiro’s reaction to Trump’s mug shot backfires as old interview resurfaces

Sidney Powell files speedy trial demand in Fulton County

Friday 25 August 2023 21:40 , Oliver O'Connell

Sidney Powell, the attorney once affiliated with the Trump campaign and charged alongside the former president in his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election, has joined attorney Kenneth Chesebro in filing a speedy trial demand in Fulton County.

Mr Chesebro’s request was quickly approved this week and he is set to stand trial on 23 October.

Which celebrities are the same height and weight as Trump, per jail records?

Friday 25 August 2023 21:30 , Oliver O'Connell

Donald Trump is, according to jail records from his most recent arrest, 6’3” tall and 215 pounds. That combination of stats has raised eyebrows across social media, as it matches several notable celebrities with quite a different build to the former president, including iconic boxer Muhammad Ali.

Ariana Baio reports.

These celebrities are the same height and weight as Trump, per jail records

Watch: Biden asked about Trump mug shot

Friday 25 August 2023 21:18 , Oliver O'Connell

In a post-pilates gaggle with reporters while on vacation in Lake Tahoe, President Joe Biden was asked whether he had seen former president Donald Trump’s mug shot.

He confirmed he had seen it on TV and asked what he thought, said “Handsome guy. Wonderful guy.”

In the background, both boos and cheers from a nearby crowd can be heard.

The president was asked about a number of other topics by reporters including the GOP debate, the potential UAW strike, the new Covid vaccine, and funding for disaster recovery versus funding for Ukraine.

About that 215lb Trump weigh-in, Stormy Daniels has some thoughts...

Friday 25 August 2023 21:10 , Oliver O'Connell

When he was booked at the Fulton County Jail upon his surrender on Thursday, Donald Trump was listed as standing at 6’3” with “blonde or strawberry” hair and blue eyes.

Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. That is until people noticed his weight was listed as 215 pounds — a number that was a considerable drop from the last time the ex-president’s weight was divulged during his first criminal indictment in April when he was listed as 240 pounds.

Mr Trump’s vital statistics, it was noted by many commentators, put him in direct comparison with a number of professional athletes, which — to put it bluntly — seems unlikely.

Needless to say, while there were many armchair experts having their say about the former president’s weight, one person who has experience up-close and personal with him jumped into the discussion on Friday lunchtime.

“Mmmkay! And I’m 110lbs and a virgin 😂!” tweeted the adult film star and Trump hush money recipient Stormy Daniels.

“I'm not a scale or a doctor but I have spent some time beneath 215lb men and Tiny [as she calls the former president] was not one of them.”

Here’s our earlier coverage of the confusion and consternation over the former president’s purported weight.

Donald Trump’s weight in Georgia arrest records raises eyebrows

Why does Trump want Georgia case moved to federal court?

Friday 25 August 2023 20:50 , Oliver O'Connell

Andrew Feinberg looks at what moving the Fulton County case to a federal court could mean for the defendants.

Why does Trump want to move Georgia case to federal court?

Big trouble for Trump in new poll after charges in Georgia case

Friday 25 August 2023 20:30 , Oliver O'Connell

The indictments against Donald Trump may help him get the Republican presidential nomination, but they’re harming his prospects of winning the general election against President Joe Biden.

Gustaf Kilander has the details.

New poll spells big trouble for Trump after charges in Georgia case

Initial batch of discovery set to begin in Fulton County case

Friday 25 August 2023 20:21 , Oliver O'Connell

District Attorney Fani Willis has notified the Fulton County Court that every attorney of record for the 19 defendants in the Georgia 2020 election interference case has been emailed and asked to provide a 2-terabyte USB drive to receive their copy of discovery documents.

The drive must be provided to her office by the close of business on 5 September. Defence attorneys will be served with discovery documents on or about 15 September.

Voices: Republicans were wrong. Trump’s legal troubles have hurt him in a general election

Friday 25 August 2023 20:10 , Oliver O'Connell

Eric Garcia writes:

Republicans seem to think that the rest of the electorate will act in the same way they do when it comes to Mr Trump’s legal travails, but there is little evidence that is the case. A new survey from Politico Magazine and Ipsos showed that three in five people say Mr Trump’s trial regarding his handling of sensitive documents should happen before the 2024 election.

In addition, the poll showed that a majority of independents think that Mr Trump is guilty in three of the indictments against him and a plurality believes he is guilty in the case of falsifying business records related to his hush money payments to Stormy Daniels.

All of that should set off alarm bells for Republicans. They desperately need independents on their side to have a decent shot to win back areas that Mr Trump cost them not only in swing states like Arizona, Wisconsin and Georgia, but also in swing House districts such as in Long Island, New York and Orange County, California.

Read the full article below:

Republicans were wrong. Trump’s legal troubles have hurt him in a general election

Palin predicts civil war after Trump’s Georgia arrest

Friday 25 August 2023 19:50 , Oliver O'Connell

Sarah Palin, the former Masked Singer contestant and reality television host who served half of a four-year term as Alaska’s governor nearly two decades ago, said the arrest of former president Donald Trump on racketeering and election interference charges could prompt a second US civil war.

Andrew Feinberg has the story.

Sarah Palin predicts civil war after Trump arrested in Georgia

Meanwhile, down under...

Friday 25 August 2023 19:45 , Oliver O'Connell

Trump’s mugshot and a cooking segment caused some allegedly unscripted amusement on an Australian morning show...

Recap: Trump and all 18 others charged in Fulton County election case meet the deadline to surrender

Friday 25 August 2023 19:30 , Oliver O'Connell

Former President Donald Trump and the 18 people indicted along with him in Georgia on charges that they participated in a wide-ranging illegal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election have all turned themselves in to a jail in Atlanta before the deadline at noon Friday.

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Trump and all 18 others charged in Georgia election case meet the deadline to surrender at jail

Captured in a grinning mug shot: Kanye West’s latest link to Trump

Friday 25 August 2023 19:10 , Oliver O'Connell

One of the more surprising names on the list of Trump co-defendants was that of Trevian Kutti, a one-time publicist for the rapper Kanye West, who wore a wide grin as she surrendered for arrest on 25 August.

Joe Sommerlad has the story.

Kanye West’s latest link to Trump is captured in a grinning mug shot

Trump’s weight and height on Georgia arrest records raise eyebrows

Friday 25 August 2023 18:50 , Oliver O'Connell

Donald Trump surrendered himself to officials in Fulton County, Georgia on Thursday where he was officially processed, booked and given a mugshot – but some of the intake information on the ex-president left people confused.

Ariana Baio reports.

Donald Trump’s weight in Georgia arrest records raises eyebrows

Bowman leads Democrats in hilarious reaction to Trump’s mugshot

Friday 25 August 2023 18:30 , Oliver O'Connell

New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman shared his gleeful reaction to Donald Trump’s mug shot after the former president surrendered for arrest at Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia.

Gustaf Kilander reports on the congressman and others’ reactions to the former president’s booking photo.

Jamaal Bowman leads Democrats in hilarious reaction to Trump’s mugshot

Eric Trump denies report of $422m Mar-a-Lago sale

Friday 25 August 2023 18:20 , Bevan Hurley

Eric Trump has knocked back a report claiming that his father’s Mar-a-Lago private club was sold for $422m days before his arrest in Georgia.

A listing on the real estate site Zillow had claimed that the Palm Beach club had been sold on 4 August to a company called Mar-a-Lago Inc.

Reports suggested that the company was controlled by Donald Trump Jr.

However, that was angrily denied by Eric Trump in a social media post on Friday.

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Eric Trump denies report of $422m Mar-a-Lago sale before his dad’s Georgia arrest

Meanwhile, DeSantis heads to Iowa’s ‘Field of Dreams’ amid Trump arrest chaos

Friday 25 August 2023 18:10 , Oliver O'Connell

Ron DeSantis gripped a baseball, looked at his 5-year-old son, Mason, and lobbed him pitch after pitch. He grinned at Mason’s hits and rolled his eyes when his own pitches came in too low or too high.

“Bad pitch, buddy,” the Florida governor said after one errant throw. “That one was my fault.”

It was as far away as one could get from the drama dominating the world of politics. As former President Donald Trump was having his mug shot taken inside an Atlanta jail, DeSantis and his family went on a pilgrimage Thursday to the “Field of Dreams” movie set.

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Ron DeSantis heads to Iowa’s ‘Field of Dreams’ amid Trump’s arrest chaos

Fifth Trump co-defendant files to move their Fulton County case to federal court

Friday 25 August 2023 17:56 , Oliver O'Connell

A fifth Trump co-defendant has filed papers to remove their case to a federal court.

Cathleen Latham, former Coffee County GOP chair and one of the fake electors, argues that she was acting as a federal official — an “officer of the United States” — under other federal officials when she signed paperwork claiming to be a legitimate elector, and therefore her case should be tried at the federal level.

Ms Latham joins Mark Meadows, Jeffrey Clark, Shawn Still, and David Shafer in trying to have the case moved.

Dona;d Trump is widely expected to make a similar bid for removal.

Trump claims he was arrested for ‘telling people to watch Newsmax’

Friday 25 August 2023 17:50 , Oliver O'Connell

Donald Trump called into Newsmax on Thursday evening to complain about his latest arrest – making the baffling claim that he had only been hit with criminal charges in Georgia because he had urged people to watch that very channel.

Sometimes being constantly told what to watch by someone can be grating, but that’s not why he was arrested, as Joe Sommerlad explains.

Trump bizarrely claims he was arrested for ‘telling people to watch Newsmax’

Meadows pushes back on prosecutors’ Hatch Act argument in effort to move case to federal court

Friday 25 August 2023 17:40 , Oliver O'Connell

Ahead of a hearing on Mark Meadows’s bid to move his state criminal case to federal court, the former White House chief of staff replies to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s arguments in opposition.

He urges the judge hearing the matter to “permit removal at or promptly after Monday’s hearing” noting that prosecutors’ citation of the Hatch Act is a “red herring” — the act prohibits members of the executive branch except the president and vice president from engaging in political activity.

Mr Meadows says that just because then-president Donald Trump was doing something political or personal it doesn’t mean that what he was doing assisting and advising the president was also political or personal.

He argues that as long as he had a “good-faith belief” that his actions were part of his official duty in his role working for the president, he’s immune from state prosecution — even if his belief was mistaken.

Trump insists ‘I LOVE TRUTH SOCIAL’ after Twitter return

Friday 25 August 2023 17:30 , Oliver O'Connell

Donald Trump has tried to insist that he still prefers his own social media platform after posting on Twitter, now called X, for the first time since January 2021.

“I LOVE TRUTH SOCIAL. IT IS MY HOME!!!” Mr Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday night.

Gustaf Kilander reports.

Trump insists ‘I LOVE TRUTH SOCIAL’ after making return to Twitter with mug shot

Confusion over hearing of Trump co-defendant Harrison Floyd

Friday 25 August 2023 17:23 , Oliver O'Connell

There is confusion in Fulton County, Georgia, over a court hearing for Harrison Floyd, the former director of Black Voices for Trump and the only one of the 19 defendants in the 2020 Georgia election case who doesn’t have a bond.

Watch: Haley gets pushback on GMA for saying Biden won’t make it through another term as president

Friday 25 August 2023 17:20 , Oliver O'Connell

Did Trump’s Tucker Carlson interview get nearly 20 times more viewers than the GOP debate? No.

Friday 25 August 2023 17:10 , Oliver O'Connell

Donald Trump has boasted that 250 million people watched his interview with Tucker Carlson, nearly 20 times the viewing figures for the GOP presidential primary debate.

But the claim doesn’t tell the full picture.

Video metrics on Elon Musk’s rebranded social media platform X register a view if a user watches only a few seconds of a clip, or simply scrolls past it on their phone.

Bevan Hurley explains why Mr Trump’s interview was not the “biggest video on social media EVER, more than double the Super Bowl!”

Trump misleadingly claims 250 million viewers watched his Tucker Carlson interview

More mug shots of Trump co-defendants released

Friday 25 August 2023 17:02 , Oliver O'Connell

Lone Trump co-defendant stuck at Fulton County Jail without bond

Friday 25 August 2023 16:50 , Oliver O'Connell

A lone Donald Trump codefendant was forced to spend the night behind bars in Fulton County Jail – while the former president swooped in and out of the facility in a matter of minutes.

Rachel Sharp has the details.

Lone Trump co-defendant is stuck in Fulton County Jail held without bond

After having surrendered, irony of Trump ‘Never Surrender’ mug shot post noted

Friday 25 August 2023 16:40 , Oliver O'Connell

Perhaps the former president or someone it the Trump campaign might have taken a second to think through posting a mug shot on social media with the words “Never Surrender” below it after he had just surrendered.

The irony was not lost on many and seemed either a detail that was conveniently ignored in the face of the rush to fundraise from supporters or one that was accidentally overlooked despite how stage-managed the entire surrender and booking had been.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins interviewed former UN Ambassador John Bolton on Thursday night about how a lot of thought went into the staging of the picture, with Mr Bolton noting that the Trump team will have spent “almost as much time as they spent combing his hair” deciding on the pose and expression.

Watch the clip:

Collins then went on to note: “He posted the mug shot, shortly after, on his own social media account, along with the phrase, ‘Never surrender’. I mean, a bit ironic, given he had actually just surrendered, at the Fulton County Jail behind me.”

Mr Bolton said that the former president would be keen to use the photo to his political advantage as he has the other three indictments (which did not have mug shots).

If only the DeSantis Super PAC hadn’t been called “Never Back Down”, then the Trump team could have sidestepped the unfortunate ironic phrasing.

Kanye West’s link to the Trump case in Georgia

Friday 25 August 2023 16:30 , Oliver O'Connell

Donald Trump has now been arrested for the fourth time after Fani Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, charged him with racketeering and election meddling in her state as he sought to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election.

But Mr Trump was not alone: 18 co-defendants were also named in the 98-page document, including the former president’s attorneys Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman and ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.

One of the more surprising names on the list was that of Trevian Kutti, a one-time publicist for the rapper Kanye West.

What are Kanye West’s links to the Trump case in Georgia?

Final Trump co-defendant surrenders at Fulton County Jail

Friday 25 August 2023 16:13 , Oliver O'Connell

Stephen Lee, the Illinois pastor turned Trump co-defendant, has been booked at the Fulton County Jail, per sheriff’s office records.

With Mr Lee’s booking, all 19 defendants in the Fulton County 2020 election interference case have surrendered ahead of District Attorney Fani Willis’s noon deadline.

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‘Slouchy and hateful’: Celebrities react to historic Trump mugshot

Friday 25 August 2023 16:10 , Louis Chilton

Celebrities from across the entertainment industry have reacted to the latest development in Donald Trump’s sensational legal battles.

‘Slouchy and hateful’: Celebrities react to historic Trump mugshot

WATCH: Trump claims he was arrested for ‘telling people to watch Newsmax’

Friday 25 August 2023 15:55 , Rachel Sharp

Watch: Biden 2024 campaign releases Roe v Wade-themed ad

Friday 25 August 2023 15:43 , Oliver O'Connell

Sarah Palin claims Trump’s arrest will lead to civil war

Friday 25 August 2023 15:40 , Rachel Sharp

Sarah Palin has claimed that Donald Trump’s arrest will lead to civil war in America.

The former Alaska governor spoke to Eric Bolling on Thursday night after Mr Trump surrendered for arrest in Fulton County.

She addressed “those who are conducting this travesty and creating this two-tier system of justice,” questioning if they were trying to start a civil war.

“I want to ask them: What the heck?” she said.

“Do you want us to be in civil war? Because that’s what’s going to happen. We’re not going to keep putting up with this.”

She added to Mr Bolling: “I like that you suggested that we need to get angry. We do need to rise up and take our country back.”

Friday 25 August 2023 15:25 , Rachel Sharp

Former Kayne West publicist Trevian Kutti has surrendered

Friday 25 August 2023 15:12 , Oliver O'Connell

Former Kayne West publicist Trevian Kutti has surrendered to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office.

Only Illinois minister Stephen Lee is left to surrender to the authorities of the 19 defendants in the Georgia election interference case brought by District Attorney Fani Willis. He has until noon.

Both Ms Kutti and Mr Lee were allegedly involved in the campaign to pressure Fulton election worker Ruby Freeman to admit that she mishandled ballots.

Full story: Trump is booked into Fulton County jail after surrendering to Georgia authorities

Friday 25 August 2023 15:10 , Rachel Sharp

Former president Donald Trump on Thursday has been released from custody after he surrendered to and was briefly placed under arrest by officers with the Fulton County, Georgia sheriff’s department at the Fulton County jail in northwest Atlanta.

Mr Trump, who was indicted on 15 August following a sprawling election interference probe overseen by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, was booked into the Fulton County jail on 13 separate charges, including a single charge of allegedly violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute.

Andrew Feinberg filed this report for The Independent.

Trump is booked into Fulton County jail after surrendering to Georgia authorities

Will Trump go to prison?

Friday 25 August 2023 14:50 , Oliver O'Connell

Again, many people are asking...

Will Donald Trump go to prison?

Trump joins a notorious album of (alleged) criminals with historic, glowering mug shot

Friday 25 August 2023 14:30 , Oliver O'Connell

Sheila Flynn looks back at some of the most famous and recognisable booking photos as Donald Trump joins a long list of celebrities and notorious arrestees.

With one glowering mug shot, Trump joins a notorious album of (alleged) criminals

Biden appears to try to fundraise off Trump arrest

Friday 25 August 2023 14:15 , Rachel Sharp

President Joe Biden has appeared to try to fundraise off the back of Donald Trump’s arrest.

Mr Biden’s campaign sent an email to supporters on Thursday cleverly making no direct reference to the former president and 2024 rival’s arrest.

The subject line simply read: “Apropos of nothing.”

In the email, Mr Biden wrote: “I think today’s a great day to give to my campaign.”

Friday 25 August 2023 14:00 , Oliver O'Connell

Watch Donald Trump’s reaction to Georgia arrest

Can Trump still run for president after charges over 2020 election?

Friday 25 August 2023 13:45 , Oliver O'Connell

Many people are asking...

Can Donald Trump still run for president after charges over 2020 election?

Deadline looms for two remaining Trump codefendants

Friday 25 August 2023 13:30 , Rachel Sharp

As of Friday morning, only two of Donald Trump’s codefendants are yet to surrender to authorities to face charges in the Georgia election interference case.

Of the 19 people charged in the sweeping indictment, Trevian Kutti and Stephen Lee are the only yet to face arrest.

In the early hours of Friday morning, Michael Roman, Jeffrey Clark, Misty Hampton, Shawn Still and Robert Cheeley were booked into Fulton County Jail.

The deadline of noon ET is now looming for the remaining two.

Despite looming over GOP debate, Trump wasn’t mentioned for first hour

Friday 25 August 2023 13:15 , Oliver O'Connell

Fox News Channel’s two-hour Republican presidential debate was halfway through when moderator Bret Baier said he wanted to take a brief moment to talk about “the elephant not in the room” — Donald Trump and his four criminal indictments.

Up until that point the former president, who skipped the debate and has a large lead in polls for the 2024 GOP nomination, had hardly been mentioned by his eight rivals on a Milwaukee stage on Wednesday.

The reluctance to talk about the topic was evident, but the 10 minutes when it was discussed included some of the debate’s more electric moments.

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Trump who? Fox barely mentions ex president in first half of Republican debate

Former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark surrenders for arrest in Georgia

Friday 25 August 2023 13:10 , Rachel Sharp

Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark has also now surrendered for arrest in Georgia.

He was booked into Fulton County Jail early on Friday morning and was released soon after on bond.

He is charged with two counts: violating the RICO Act and conspiracy to commit false statements and writings.

Latest Trump codefendant surrenders: Michael Roman

Friday 25 August 2023 12:58 , Rachel Sharp

Michael Roman has become the latest codefendant of Donald Trump to surrender to authorities in Georgia.

Mr Roman, a GOP political operative, surrendered in the early hours of Friday morning – just hours before the deadline.

He has since been released on bond.

He is charged with seven counts over his part in orchestrating the fake electors plot in Georgia.

ICYMI: Mark Meadows surrenders in Atlanta

Friday 25 August 2023 12:45 , Eric Garcia

Former president Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows surrendered in Atlanta as he faces charges in Fulton County, Georgia related to his and the former president’s scheme to overturn the 2020 election results, the Associated Press reported.

Mark Meadows surrenders in Atlanta for efforts to overturn 2020 presidential election

Lone Trump codefendant is stuck in Fulton County Jail held without bond

Friday 25 August 2023 12:30 , Rachel Sharp

A lone Donald Trump codefendant was forced to spend the night behind bars in Fulton County Jail – while the former president swooped in and out of the facility in a matter of minutes.

Harrison Floyd, who was the director of “Black Voices for Trump” during his 2020 campaign, surrendered to authorities in Fulton County on Thursday where he was arrested for his part in the sweeping 41-count criminal indictment.

Mr Trump and the other dozen defendants who have so far turned themselves in for arrest sailed in and out of the jail quickly after posting bond.

But Mr Floyd wasn’t so lucky.

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Lone Trump codefendant is stuck in Fulton County Jail held without bond

House Judiciary Committee opens probe into Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis

Friday 25 August 2023 12:15 , Oliver O'Connell

The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday signalled that it was still largely consumed with doing the bidding of Donald Trump and using whatever political power it has to undercut the legitimacy of law enforcement agencies seeking to prosecute Mr Trump’s alleged criminal activities.

Coming on the heels of similar efforts by the Republican-led panel to demand information from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith, the committee on Thursday sent a letter to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis accusing her of running a political hit job.

John Bowden reports.

House Judiciary Committee opens probe into Fani Willis hours before Trump surrender

Trump ‘bang to rights’, says former UK ambassador to US

Friday 25 August 2023 12:00 , Rachel Sharp

After arrest at Fulton County Jail, Trump scowls in historic mug shot

Friday 25 August 2023 11:45 , Oliver O'Connell

Donald Trump scowled in his historic mug shot that was released after the former president surrendered at the notorious Fulton County Jail.

Mr Trump was captured in the iconic photo as he was arrested in Atlanta over criminal charges that he conspired with 18 associates to interfere in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.

It is the first time in American history that a sitting or former president has had a booking photo taken by law enforcement, in this case Fulton County Sheriff’s Department.

Graeme Massie reports.

Trump scowls in historic mug shot after arrest at Fulton County Jail

Trump is already trying to sell t shirts with his mugshot on

Friday 25 August 2023 11:30 , Rachel Sharp

Donald Trump has already started selling t shirts with his mugshot on just hours after his arrest in Georgia for running a mob-style criminal enterprise with the aim of overturning the 2020 presidential election.

The former president surrendered to Fulton County authorities on Thursday evening to face 13 charges in the sweeping RICO indictment.

He was booked into Fulton County Jail where he was fingerprinted and had his mugshot taken – marking a historic moment as the first current or former president to ever be captured in a booking photo.

Predictably, almost as soon as the scowling mugshot was released, the former president’s re-election campaign began using it to try to fundraise for his 2024 presidential run.

Less than 90 minutes in from his release from the Atlanta jail, the campaign sent an email to supporters saying it would give away a “free” premium cotton t-shirt featuring the historic booking photo – in exchange for a $47 donation.

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Trump is already trying to sell t shirts with his mugshot on

ICYMI: The cringeworthy pause when GOP candidates were asked about backing Trump

Friday 25 August 2023 11:15 , Oliver O'Connell

Six out of eight Republican presidential candidates raised their hands to say they would support Donald Trump as the GOP nominee even if he was convicted in one of the multiple criminal trials he faces.

But Florida governor Ron DeSantis was caught on camera awkwardly looking at his rivals before indicating he would also support the former president.

Graeme Massie reports.

Awkward delay from Christie, DeSantis and Pence when asked if they back Trump

Friday 25 August 2023 11:00 , Oliver O'Connell

Donald Trump arrested in Georgia: How it happened

Elon Musk reacts to Trump’s return to X

Friday 25 August 2023 10:45 , Rachel Sharp

Elon Musk gave a muted reaction to Donald Trump’s return to X, after the former president posted his first tweet since the ban was lifted.

“Next-level,” he simply wrote.

VOICES: Jay Black: What Donald Trump’s mugshot reveals about his followers is truly worrying

Friday 25 August 2023 10:30 , Rachel Sharp

Previous generations had mugshots they thought were cooly insouciant or laughably odd or just plain embarrassing. But no other generation looked at those pictures and thought, man I wish that were me. Until this one

Jay Black writes:

What Trump’s mugshot reveals about his followers is truly worrying | Jay Black

Trump returns to Twitter to post mugshot and fundraise

Friday 25 August 2023 10:15 , Oliver O'Connell

Donald Trump has returned to Twitter for the first time since being reinstated on the platform, now known as X. His last tweet was on 8 January 2021, when he said he would not attend the inauguration of Joe Biden, just two days after the Capitol riot.

He posted his mugshot and the link to his campaign’s fundraising page and claimed his arrest was “election interference”.

Donald Trump mugshot memes: The biggest reactions and jokes to his 'blue steel' moment

Friday 25 August 2023 10:00 , Rachel Sharp

It’s a landmark day in the history of the US, with Donald Trump surrendering and posing for a mugshot after turning himself in to face charges of election interference in Georgia.

The mugshot marks a historical moment, as the first taken of a current or former US president, and it’s sure to become one of the most shared images of the 21st century.

The image has sparked a huge reaction, as you might imagine, with people reacting in their millions on social media.

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Trump mugshot memes: All the biggest reactions and jokes

Trump is already trying to sell t shirts with his mugshot on

Friday 25 August 2023 09:40 , Rachel Sharp

Donald Trump is already trying to sell t shirts with his mugshot as he seeks to use his arrest in Georgia to fundraise for his campaign.

Almost as soon as the scowling mugshot surfaced, the former president’s re-election campaign sent an email to supporters saying it would give away a “free” premium cotton t-shirt featuring the historic booking photo – in exchange for a $47 donation.

Trump joins a notorious album of (alleged) criminals with historic, glowering mug shot

Friday 25 August 2023 09:20 , Oliver O'Connell

Sheila Flynn looks back at some of the most famous and recognisable booking photos as Donald Trump joins a long list of celebrities and notorious arrestees.

With one glowering mug shot, Trump joins a notorious album of (alleged) criminals

WATCH: Trump's post-arrest interview awkwardly breaks up and cuts out

Friday 25 August 2023 09:00 , Rachel Sharp

Full story: Trump is booked into Fulton County jail after surrendering to Georgia authorities

Friday 25 August 2023 08:40 , Oliver O'Connell

Former president Donald Trump on Thursday surrendered to and was placed under arrest by officers with the Fulton County, Georgia sheriff’s department at the Fulton County jail in northwest Atlanta.

Andrew Feinberg reports.

Trump is booked into Fulton County jail after surrendering to Georgia authorities

Trump’s weight in Georgia arrest records raises eyebrows

Friday 25 August 2023 08:17 , Rachel Sharp

Donald Trump’s weight was listed as 215 pounds in his intake information – a marked drop from the figure recorded at his first criminal indictment in April and figure recorded by his White House physician in 2020.

Media commentators and social media users aren’t convinced...

Trump’s weight in Georgia arrest records raises eyebrows

Top 5 takeaways from contentious first GOP primary debate

Friday 25 August 2023 08:15 , John Bowden

The first Republican debate of 2023 was a brawl, as expected, but the absence of the party’s frontrunner left the remaining contenders picking targets almost at random.

And while the party will likely insist otherwise at next year’s Republican national convention, the GOP appears to be bitterly divided on a number of key issues — issues that are, for the most part, settled arguments for their counterparts on the left.

Tonight’s showdown in Wisconsin was a Trump-free event where the former president nevertheless cast a long shadow despite not actually being physically present. From questions specifically about the former president to a brash, combative performance from a businessman and political newcomer (sound familiar?), the first matchup of the 2024 Republican field was as much of a spectacle as reporters expected and for which Democrats were possibly hoping.

Let’s break down what we learned tonight:

Five takeaways from contentious first GOP primary debate

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