Former president of the United States Donald Trump has turned himself in to a jail in Georgia following his fourth criminal indictment.
The 77-year-old flew from his New Jersey golf club and arrived at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday at around 7:30pm local time (Friday 9:30am AEST).
For the first time since his first criminal indictment in April, Trump has had his mugshot taken.
In a post on his social media platform, Truth Social, the former president said it was “yet another SAD DAY IN AMERICA”.
“I have to start getting ready to head down to Atlanta, Georgia to get ARRESTED by a Radical Left, Lowlife District Attorney,” he wrote.
“For a PERFECT PHONE CALL, and having the audacity to challenge a RIGGED AND STOLLEN (sic) ELECTION.”
A grand jury charged Trump and 19 others last week over alleged conspiracy to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results, which fell in favour of current US president Joe Biden. The jury ordered the accused, including the former president, to “voluntarily surrender”.
Trump’s lawyers negotiated his release from jail with a bail of USD $200,000 (AUD $312,000).
Protestors and journalists gathered outside of the jail to witness his appearance at the county jail.
Trump and his co-accused are expected to appear at Atlanta’s Fulton County Court for arraignment hearings (charges will be read before a judge and accused can enter a plea) in September via a video call.
The judge has approved the presence of a news camera in the court for the arraignment hearing next month.
The criminal trial date is expected to be in March 2024, although some co-defendants, including Kenneth Chesebro, applied for a fast-tracked trial on October 23.
The latest is the fourth of Trump’s criminal indictments since April this year. He is the first former president of the US to be facing criminal charges.
He is also facing separate charges relating to election interference in Washington D.C, falsifying business records in New York and mishandling classified documents in Miami.
In an interview on Fox News with Tucker Carlson, Trump called his criminal indictments “bullshit”.
Despite his charges, Trump remains in the running for the 2024 presidential election in the US, where he is well ahead in polls against his fellow Republican candidates.
During the Republican primary presidential debate, which Trump bailed on for the Fox News interview, six out of the eight candidates that spoke said they would still support Trump as the party’s nominee, even his hen were to be convicted of his alleged crimes.