Amid indictment, Trump says he’d ‘leave US to share gold domed suite with Putin’
Donald Trump sparked a row on Monday after he said he would leave the United States and go live in a ‘gold-domed suite’ with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The former US President’s statement came after his bond was set at $200,000 following his indictment for allegedly scheming to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia.
“The failed District Attorney of Fulton County (Atlanta), Fani Willis, insisted on a $200,000 Bond from me. I assume, therefore, that she thought I was a “flight” risk – I’d fly far away, maybe to Russia, Russia, Russia, share a gold domed suite with Vladimir, never to be seen or heard from again,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
“Would I be able to take my very “understated” airplane with the gold TRUMP affixed for all to see. Probably not, I’d be much better off flying commercial – I’m sure nobody would recognize me!”, he added.
Though Trump’s post was understood as a joke, witnesses or victims in the case assumed he was trying to provoke the court to see how much he could get away with, the Huffington Post reported.
FIRST TRUMP ALLIES IN GEORGIA ELECTION SUBVERSION CASE SURRENDER
Meanwhile, the first of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in Georgia’s criminal case accusing Donald Trump and his associates of subverting his 2020 election loss surrendered at an Atlanta jail on Tuesday, according to county records and a statement.
Trump’s former lawyer John Eastman and Republican poll watcher Scott Hall both surrendered to the county sheriff’s office.
It is expected that the remaining 17 defendants named in the indictment will surrender by Friday, the office said in a statement.
Trump was set to turn himself in on Thursday to face his fourth criminal indictment this year