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Former President Donald Trump was booked Thursday, August 24, 2023 at Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail on 13 felony charges for attempting to overturn the 2020 election.

Trump was charged by a Fulton County grand jury on August 14 of crimes ranging from racketeering to conspiring to commit forgery to filing false documents. He faces 91 felony charges, 44 federal and 47 state, that could carry a staggering 641 years in prison.

He paid $20,000, or 10% of his $200,000 bond, through a local bail bondsman, allowing him to be released after about 20 minutes at the jail. He is expected to face trial as early as October.

In Atlanta, Democracy Now! spoke with two guests: Carol Anderson, a professor of African American studies at Emory University and the author of One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy, and Hugo Lowell, a reporter for The Guardian who has closely covered Trump’s criminal case in Georgia.

Anderson discusses the Trump campaign’s use of a long legacy of racism and voter suppression in an attempt to “overthrow democracy” via an “assault on Black humanity,” while Lowell shares what’s next for Trump and his 18 other co-defendants, including former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and lawyer Kenneth Cheseboro, who first suggested the plot to create fake electors.

Read the full transcript of the video at www.democracynow.org/2023/8/25/trump_georgia_arrest_2020_election_interference.