A judge in Atlanta set bail for former President Donald Trump at $200,000 on Monday in the new election interference case against him, warning Trump not to intimidate or threaten witnesses or any of his 18 co-defendants as a condition of the bond agreement.
A judge in Atlanta set bail for former President Donald Trump at $200,000 on Monday in the new election interference case against him, warning Trump not to intimidate or threaten witnesses or any of his 18 co-defendants as a condition of the bond agreement.
Trump, who posted on Truth Social late Monday that he would surrender to authorities in Atlanta on Thursday, is also sorting out logistical details in three other criminal cases that have been filed against him this year. Earlier on Monday, federal prosecutors pushed back on a request from his lawyers to postpone a separate election interference trial in Washington, D.C., until at least April 2026.
Under his bond agreement in Georgia, Trump cannot communicate with any co-defendants in the case except through his lawyers. He was also directed to “make no direct or indirect threat of any nature against the community,” including “posts on social media or reposts of posts made by another individual.”
The terms were more extensive than those set for other defendants in the case so far, which did not specifically mention social media. In the past, Trump has made inflammatory and sometimes false personal attacks on Fani Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, who is leading the case.
Bond was set at $100,000 for John Eastman, one of the architects of a plan to use fake electors to keep Trump in power. according to court filings; a lawyer for Kenneth Chesebro, who also developed that plan, said the same amount was set for Chesebro.
Trump’s attacks continued Monday before his bond being set. In a post on Truth Social, he called Willis “crooked, incompetent, & highly partisan” and wrote that she “has allowed Murder and other Violent Crime to MASSIVELY ESCALATE.” In fact, homicides have fallen sharply in Atlanta in the first half of the year.
While Trump did not have to pay bail in the other criminal cases against him, the agreements posted for him and several of his co-defendants in Georgia on Monday require five- and six-figure sums. The defendants have to come up with only 10% of the bail amount, but even that could prove difficult for some, including Rudy Giuliani, the former personal lawyer for Trump, who is running out of money because of an array of legal entanglements.
