Trump due to surrender at Georgia jail today

Former U.S. President Donald Trump is due to report to an Atlanta, Georgia jail on Thursday to face charges stemming from his effort to overturn his 2020 election loss.

It is the fourth criminal case to hit the former president this year.

Like other criminal defendants in Atlanta, Trump will be fingerprinted and photographed at the Fulton County Jail.

His mug shot is certain to be widely circulated by backers and detractors alike as he campaigns to win back the White House in a November 2024 election.

The Republican former president faces 13 felony counts including racketeering, which is typically used to target organised crime, for pressuring state officials to reverse his election loss to Democratic President Joe Biden.

Trump, 77, has denied wrongdoing and attacked the case as politically motivated.

He will not enter a plea at this appearance. He has agreed to post $200,000 bond and accepted bail conditions that would bar him from threatening witnesses or his 18 co-defendants in the case.

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.

Trump, the first former U.S. president to be charged with crimes, faces 91 separate criminal counts overall.