On Monday, a Georgia judge issued a $200,000 bond for Donald Trump in the former US president’s racketeering case filed in the southern state.
Trump and the 18 other co-defendants in the unprecedented case have until noon (1600 GMT) on Friday to surrender and be booked in Georgia.
Trump will surrender on Thursday, CNN reported, quoting two sources familiar with the plan.
Aside from a $200,000 bond for the Republican billionaire, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee imposed several conditions in an agreement approved by prosecutors and Trump attorneys.
“The Defendant shall perform no act to intimidate any person known to him or her to be a codefendant or witness in this case or to otherwise obstruct the administration of justice,” McAfee said in a three-page court filing.
“The above shall include, but are not limited to, posts on social media or reposts of posts made by another individual on social media,” the judge said.
McAfee set bond at $100,000 for each of the case’s co-defendants, former Trump campaign attorneys John Eastman and Kenneth Chesebro.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has requested the judge to set a March 4 trial date for the 77-year-old former president on allegations of attempting to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election result.
Trump, the Republican presidential favorite in 2024, is facing four criminal trials as he seeks a return to the White House.
After a two-year investigation into his efforts to overturn his election loss to Democrat Joe Biden in Georgia, Trump was accused in Georgia on accusations of racketeering and a slew of election offenses.
Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and his White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, are all facing charges in the alleged conspiracy.
‘Speedy trial’
Special counsel Jack Smith has sought a federal judge to set a trial date for the former president in Washington on separate counts of plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election on January 2, 2024.
Trump’s attorneys urged Judge Tanya Chutkan last week to set the trial for April 2026, well after the presidential election next year.
They contended that the volume of records in the case would take months to process.
Smith responded in court on Monday, claiming that Trump’s defense team “exaggerates the challenge of reviewing” the material given in the case.
“A proposed trial date in 2026 would deny the public its right to a speedy trial,” the special counsel said.
Chutkan is to decide the date for the trial at a hearing on August 28.
Trump also faces a trial in New York in March 2024 for allegedly making hush money payments to a p**n star in a bid to cheat campaign finance rules ahead of the 2016 election.
He is scheduled to go on trial in Florida in May on charges also brought by Smith of mishandling top secret government documents he took from the White House as he left office.