Former president Trump’s bond has been set at $200,000 in the Georgia case involving his alleged efforts to subvert the outcome of the 2020 election.
The agreement was reached after his attorneys negotiated with the Fulton County district attorney’s office on Monday, according to the order. Signed by his lawyers Drew Findling, Marissa Goldberg, and Jennifer Little, Trump’s order included prohibitions on witness intimidation using his social media platform, Truth Social.
“The Defendant shall perform no act to intimidate any person known to him or her to be a codefendant or witness in this case or to otherwise obstruct the administration of justice,” the order read. Trump is forbidden from making direct or indirect threat against any codefendant, victim, the community, or property of the community, also applying to “posts on social media or reposts of posts made by another individual on social media.”
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis also reached a bond agreement with John Eastman, one of Trump’s 18 codefendants, for $100,000 on Monday. A bond order for $10,000 was also announced for Trump codefendant Scott Hall, who was accused of racketeering and loitering in a restricted area of an elections office in Atlanta when voting systems were breached in January 2021, CNN reported.
Trump’s $200,000 bond was the sum of amounts for 13 counts including criminal solicitation, criminal conspiracy, filing false documents, and others.
In July, the Georgia supreme court unanimously rejected Trump’s attempt to thwart the Fulton County district attorney’s probe into his alleged scheme to interfere in the state’s 2020 elections. In March, Trump’s lawyers moved to quash the special grand jury’s report that had been commissioned by Willis, arguing that the panel was unconstitutionally constituted in the first place and that it failed to protect Trump’s right to due process. His legal team argued that the grand jury’s forewoman’s making a spectacle of the case in the press “poisoned” the probe. Trump’s legal team also wanted the Georgia supreme court to disqualify Willis, arguing that she was operating under a conflict of interest.
The report that was produced by the grand jury was based on the testimony of 75 witnesses as well as phone calls, emails, and other documents. Following his loss to Joe Biden in the state, Trump asked Georgia’s secretary of state to “find” another 11,780 votes to propel him to victory. His campaign also organized a slate of false electors to certify that he had won the election in the state. Willis’s investigation launched soon after, in early 2021. It was centered on alleged efforts from Trump and his allies to pressure election officials and a plan to put forward fake electors.