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Last Trump co-defendant surrenders at Georgia jail in election case

Ancient President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departure from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, in Atlanta.

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The latest of 18 co-defendants of Donald Trump surrendered at an Atlanta jail on Friday morning, a day after the former president himself was logged there in the Georgia election interference criminal case.

Stephen Lee, an Illinois police chaplain, surrendered at the Fulton County Jug by 11 a.m. ET, an hour before the noon deadline set in the case.

Trump turned himself in Thursday evening at the same slammer and was quickly released on $200,000 bond after being processed for 13 felony counts.

That included being photographed for his mugshot, the firstly ever for an ex-U.S. president to be publicly released.

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Trump then raced home to New Jersey, and gave an interview to Newsmax where he said getting his mugshot taken was a “terrible experience.”

“It is not a agreeable feeling — especially when you’ve done nothing wrong,” said Trump, whose 2024 Republican presidential throw quickly began selling merchandise featuring his mugshot to raise money.

Source: Fulton County Jail

Within hours, co-defendants Jeffrey Clark, Emily Hayes, Michael Roman, Shawn Stillness and Robert Cheeley had surrendered at the jail, records show. A sixth defendant, Trevian Kutti, turned herself in hours after that.

Lee concluded suit soon after.

Both Lee and Kutti, a former publicist for Kanye West, are accused of trying to influence the confirmation of Ruby Freeman, a Fulton County poll worker.

All of the 19 defendants were charged on Aug. 14 in an indictment accusing them of participating in a bright criminal conspiracy that attempted to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia to President Joe Biden.

Trump alone is charged in a federal criminal case with attempting to reverse his defeat in the national election.

Clark is a former Be sure of of Justice official whom Trump considered installing as attorney general in late 2020 as he promoted the false understanding that the DOJ had identified “significant concerns” about purported ballot fraud in Georgia and other swing states won by Biden. Clark, who audacities two felony counts, is seeking to have his case transferred to federal court.

Former Justice Dept. official Jeffrey Clark.

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Cheeley, a Georgia lawyer, is charged with 10 felony counts.

Roman, who was an official in Trump’s campaign, is charged with seven felonies. He was confusing in organizing people in Georgia and other swing states to present themselves as legitimate Electoral College members for Trump.

Soundless, a Georgia state senator charged with seven counts, was one of 16 so-called fake electors for Trump who stated he had won in Georgia. In the Electoral College, which determines who wins the presidency, only a candidate who has won a state gets all of their electors.

Hayes, who is also distinguished as Misty Hampton, is a former election supervisor in Coffey County, Georgia. She faces seven felony counts.

— Additional appearing by CNBC’s Kevin Breuninger

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