Donald Trump says getting his mugshot taken was a 'terrible experience'
Topics: Donald Trump
Stewart Perrie
Featured Image Credit: Fulton County Sheriff's Office. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Topics: Donald Trump
Donald Trump has become the first US President, sitting or former, to have his mugshot taken.
The ex-Commander in Chief flew from the east coast to Georgia for processing after he was indicted on charges related to trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
He had a huge motorcade take him from the airport to the Fulton County Sheriff's Office, where he got his mugshot and fingerprints taken.
CNN says he was in and out in less than half an hour and then he made a beeline for the airport to fly home.
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After his mugshot was taken, he told Newsmax it was a 'terrible experience'.
"I came in, I was treated very nicely," he said.
"It is what it is.
"I took a mugshot, which I’d never heard the words ‘mugshot’ — they didn’t teach me that at the Wharton School of Finance.
In a separate interview with Fox, he said officials in Georgia 'insisted on a mug shot and I agreed to do that' even though he said it was 'not a comfortable feeling'.
Trump has been charged with violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced And Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, as well as six conspiracy counts over alleged efforts to commit forgery, impersonate a public official and submit false statements and documents.
Investigators are focusing on a phone call made in January 2021 where the former President allegedly urged Georgia's Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, to 'find 11,780 votes' to reverse his loss in the state.
The indictment read: “Trump and the other defendants charged in this indictment refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and wilfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favour of Trump.
“That conspiracy contained a common plan and purpose to commit two or more acts of racketeering activity in Fulton County, Georgia, elsewhere in the state of Georgia, and in other states.”
When it was handed down, authorities from Fulton County warned Trump he would have to submit to a mugshot and it would be released like everyone else who gets charged or indicted.
Trump agreed to post $200,000 (£158,313) bail as a condition of his release and has also promised to not use social media to target the co-defendants and witnesses in the case.
He was among 19 others who were indicted in this investigation.
The others included former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, and Trump administration Justice Department official, Jeffrey Clark.