Former President Donald Trump‘s legal team and other attorneys for co-defendants accused of attempting to subvert the 2020 election arrived in Fulton County, Georgia, on Monday to iron out the terms of their bond and release conditions.
District Attorney Fani Willis reached a bond agreement with Trump just after 3:30 p.m. EDT, setting his bond at $200,000. Under the terms of the consent bond order, Trump cannot perform any acts of witness intimidation or communicate directly or indirectly about the facts of the case with any co-defendants except through his attorneys.
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The terms of the “consent bond order” for Trump are by far some of the strictest compared to his previous conditions set after being charged in New York and in two federal cases.
The order was signed by Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, Willis, and Trump’s attorneys, stating Trump “shall perform no act to intimidate any person known to him or her to be a co-defendant or witness in this case or to otherwise obstruct the administration of justice.”
Trump is subject to violations of making threats even if they come via “posts on social media or reposts of posts made by another individual on social media,” according to the consent order.
A bond agreement was also met with four of Trump’s co-defendants on Monday, including attorney John Eastman, though those agreements were signed by Willis’s deputy. His $100,000 bond order was the first to appear on the Fulton County court website Monday afternoon.
Eastman, who allegedly helped form the strategy that led Trump to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence to throw out electors on Jan. 6, 2021, faces nine counts, and his bond was set at $100,000.
Eastman’s attorneys vowed last week to challenge the charges he is facing and said, “Lawyers everywhere should be sleepless over this latest stunt to criminalize their advocacy.”
Trump campaign attorney Kenneth Chesebro was also granted a $100,000 bond. His charges include conspiracy to commit impersonating a public officer, conspiracy to commit filing false documents, and two counts each of conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree and conspiracy to commit false statements and writings,
Atlanta-based attorney Ray Smith III was also granted a $50,000 bond. He stands accused of conspiring to impersonate a public officer, conspiracy to commit filing false documents, two counts each of false statements and writings, conspiracy to commit false statements and writings, conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree, and three counts of solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer.
Co-defendant Scott Hall, who is a bail bondsman, had his bond set at $10,000. He is facing seven charges related to an alleged connection with a local elections office breach in Coffee County, Georgia.
All of the 19 defendants indicted in the racketeering last week, including Trump, are expected to surrender themselves this week ahead of a Friday deadline imposed by Willis.
The defendants who were granted bond on Monday were also ordered to attend pretrial supervision every 30 days and may do so by phone. The defendants are also barred from communicating with any other co-defendants in the case.
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Trump and the others were named in a 41-count racketeering indictment that ties back to alleged efforts to overturn the election results in the state’s 2020 race.
See Trump’s bond agreement here:
