WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - Former President Donald Trump has surrendered at the Fulton County jail in Atlanta in connection with more than a dozen charges filed against him over plotting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.
It was Trump's fourth arrest in five months in a criminal case, but this time police captured his photo, making it the first ever mugshot of a current or former US president.
Trump shared the mugshot on the former Twitter platform X with the caption, 'Election interference! Never surrender!'
It was for the first time since January 2021 that Trump posting something on the social media platform.
Trump was released on a $200,000 bond after spending around 20 minutes at the jail.
Speaking to reporters at the airport before heading to his New Jersey golf course aboard a private jet, he repeated his claim that the presidential election was 'a rigged election, a stolen election.'
Trump is the first former US president to face criminal charges.
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