Donald Trump to surrender in Georgia on Thursday

Former President Donald Trump being escorted to a courtroom. File pic/AP

Former President Donald Trump says he will surrender to authorities in Georgia on Thursday to face charges in the case accusing him of illegally scheming to overturn his 2020 election loss.

"Can you believe it? I'll be going to Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday to be arrested," Trump wrote on his social media network on Monday night, hours after court papers said his bond was set at $200,000. The Fulton County Sheriff's Office said in a news release Monday afternoon that when Trump surrenders there will be a "hard lockdown" of the area surrounding the main county jail.

Trump, according to the papers, is also barred from intimidating co-defendants, witnesses or victims in the case "including on social media" according to the bond agreement signed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, Trump's defence attorneys and the judge. It explicitly includes "posts on social media or reposts of posts" made by others.

Trump has repeatedly used social media to attack people involved in the criminal cases against him as he campaigns to reclaim the White House in 2024. The agreement prohibits the former president from making any "direct or indirect threat of any nature" against witnesses or co-defendants, and from communicating in any way about the facts of the case with them, except through attorneys.

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