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(The Center Square) – Former President Donald Trump surrendered to Fulton County government Thursday on charges he attempted to overturn the effects of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.

Fulton County government charged Trump and 18 others, together with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and previous state Republican Party Chair David Shafer, as phase of the effort. The Fulton County indictment of Trump is the fourth towards the former president and the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

Trump addressed journalists on the tarmac ahead of boarding his airplane certain for New Jersey. 

“What has taken place here is a travesty of justice,” Trump stated. “We did nothing wrong at all. They’re interfering with an election and there’s never been anything like it in our country before.

“And we have now each proper, each unmarried proper to problem an election that we expect is devious. So we expect it is very cheating.”

Even before Trump formally surrendered to authorities at the Atlanta facility, the former president’s attorneys and prosecutors agreed to set a $200,000 bond.

While Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has said she would like to see the case go to trial within six months, legal experts say that is a tall order.

“The concept that this situation would move to trial in six months is constructive, and I believe it is constructive, although you set aside that Donald Trump is going through 3 different indictments,” Jonathan Entin, a professor emeritus of law and adjunct professor of political science at Case Western Reserve University, told The Center Square.

Additionally, Shafer, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and former assistant U.S. Attorney General Jeffrey Clark want the case transferred to federal court.

“The Georgia indictment displays the Sergeant Joe Friday mantra of ‘simply the details, ma’am’ and may just finally end up being more straightforward to end up than the newest federal indictment towards Trump by means of warding off trying to immediately blame him for the chaos of Jan. 6,” civil rights attorney V. James DeSimone, of Los Angeles-based V. James DeSimone Law, told The Center Square via email.

“The job of prosecuting 19 defendants and proving acts happening in different states could also be a frightening one,” DeSimone added. “But by means of charging acts in different states, the indictment demonstrates how Trump and the alleged co-conspirators advanced a plan to invalidate the standard vote in a enough quantity of states to regulate the effects of the election.

“Despite its breadth and the naming of numerous co-conspirators, Georgia’s indictment is nevertheless focused on the interference with its state elections, the oath of those in office and the established protocol for the election of the electoral voters.”

Additionally, Entin stated it can be difficult to seat a jury in the case, nevertheless it would possibly not be unimaginable.

“Just because we have one very prominent defendant, the legal system can’t work if we say, ‘well, if you’re a high enough profile person, then you can never be tried, no matter what you do,'” Entin stated. “That’s just destructive of the whole idea that we have a rule of law. There’s plenty of room for reasonable minds to differ about whether Donald Trump or any of the other defendants committed any of the crimes with which they’re charged. But that’s separate from saying, ‘Well, you know, some people are too important or too prominent to be subject to the rule of law at all.'”

“So, it may take a lot of work to assemble a jury that is capable of deciding the case on the basis of the evidence and put aside whatever views they bring to the table,” Entin added.

Earlier Thursday, U.S. House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, despatched a letter to  Willis difficult all data of communique with the DOJ to decide whether or not it used to be “politically motivated.”

“Turning first to the question of motivation, it is noteworthy that just four days before this indictment, you launched a new campaign fundraising website that highlighted your investigation into President Trump,” the letter stated.