Defiant Donald Trump speaks out after turning himself in at Georgia jail

A defiant Donald Trump has spoken out after turning himself in at a Georgia jail on costs that he illegally schemed to overturn the 2020 US election within the state.

The former president was out and in of Fulton County Jail in lower than an hour. And, chatting with journalists earlier than he boarded a airplane to depart Atlanta after his county jail reserving Trump insisted he had finished nothing flawed.

The Fulton County prosecution is the fourth legal case towards Trump since March, when he turned the primary former president in US historical past to be indicted. Since then, he has confronted federal costs in Florida and Washington, and this month he was indicted in Atlanta with 18 others – together with his ex-chief of employees, Mark Meadows, and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani – underneath a racketeering statute usually related to gang members and organised crime.

Speaking at Atlanta airport after his reserving, Trump stated: “This is a very sad day for America.” He claimed his arrest was an instance of “election interference”.

“When you have that great freedom to challenge, you have to be able to otherwise you get dishonest elections,” stated Trump.

“What has taken place here is a travesty of justice. We did nothing wrong. I did nothing wrong and everybody knows that I’ve never had such support,” he provides.

“We have every right, every single right to challenge an election that we think is dishonest,” added Trump, earlier than thanking journalists for coming. He then boarded his jet Trump Force One to return to New Jersey.

The legal instances have spurred a succession of bookings and arraignments, with Trump making temporary court docket appearances earlier than returning to the marketing campaign path.

He has turned the appearances into marketing campaign occasions amid a far lighter schedule than his rivals, with employees delighting in wall-to-wall media protection that has included news helicopters monitoring his each transfer.

The marketing campaign has additionally used the appearances to solicit fundraising contributions from his supporters as aides paint the costs as a part of a politically motivated effort to wreck his re-election probabilities.