A CNN report said Thursday that former President Donald Trump was covering 10 percent of his $200,000 bond in Georgia connected to the sweeping indictment that recently emerged from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. She accuses Trump and 18 co-defendants of involvement in a criminal conspiracy targeting the state’s election results from 2020.
“Former President Donald Trump covered the cost of his $200,000 bond by putting 10% toward it and working with a local Atlanta bonding company Foster Bail Bonds LLC, sources told CNN,” that outlet said Thursday in early reporting. The mentioned bail bonds company confirmed its involvement in the arrangement to CNN. Trump, the news source also said, was not anticipated to actually show up in person at the bail bonds company before leaving the area after his expected processing in the case from Willis Thursday night.
The amount of Trump’s bond was on the higher end of the bonds publicly known from the Georgia case. Longtime Trump ally and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, for instance, was left with a $150,000 bond. Trump, meanwhile, is also formally under restrictions on making threatening comments towards other individuals involved in or connected to the case, a concern connected to past statements from the former president, who has repeatedly — even if he’s technically not endorsed it — raised the purported specter of destruction accompanying his various criminal charges that now stretch across four different jurisdictions.
Though the Georgia matter constitutes his fourth criminal case, it’s nonetheless the first in which Trump has been required to pay for bail. As is routine, the terms of his agreement also demand that he abide by dates set for his appearance in court. Ahead of his Thursday surrender, he spread false claims about supposedly sky-high crime levels in Atlanta, similar in form to how he derided Washington, D.C., as purportedly “filthy” around the time he went there for an early court appearance in the criminal case from Special Counsel Jack Smith dealing with Trump’s attempts to subvert the 2020 election.
