Trump’s brief jailhouse visit comes one day after his rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination met in Milwaukee for their initial debate. Trump skipped that event, instead sitting for a pre-taped interview with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
“I’ve been indicted four times – all trivial nonsense,” he said.
Trump’s lead in opinion polls has widened since his first indictment, and his supporters say they believe the charges are politically motivated. But analysts say Trump’s legal woes could alienate the independent voters he would need to win in a general-election matchup with Biden, the incumbent who defeated him by 7 million votes in 2020.
91 PROBLEMS
Trump, the first former US president to be charged with crimes, faces 91 separate criminal counts overall.
He has been charged in Washington, DC, over his efforts to overturn the election, in Florida over his handling of classified documents upon leaving office, and in New York over a hush money payment to a porn star.
In Georgia, Trump is accused of pressuring state officials and setting up a slate of illegitimate electors to reverse his 2020 defeat.
Trump claims he won the 2020 election and has assailed all four cases as politically motivated. He is due to enter a plea in the Georgia case on Sep 5 and has pleaded not guilty in the other three cases.
Nine of Trump’s 18 co-defendants in the Georgia case, including his former lawyer Rudolph Giuliani, have surrendered to authorities. The remaining eight face a Friday deadline to comply or face arrest.
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