Donald Trump has said he will surrender to authorities in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday, one day after his rivals for the Republican party’s nomination for president are set to take the stage for a primetime debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Trump said in a statement on his Truth Social platform late on Monday that he would be flying to Atlanta on Thursday to be “arrested by a radical left district attorney”. The former president faces 13 charges in Georgia, including violating the state’s anti-racketeering laws and criminal conspiracy.
“Can you believe it?” Trump said in the post, accusing Fani Willis, the Democratic district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia, of carrying out a “witch hunt” against him “in strict co-ordination” with the US Department of Justice. He has repeatedly claimed that his growing legal troubles are the result of “election interference” by President Joe Biden and the Democratic party.