Trump says he will be arrested on Thursday in Georgia election case

Donald Trump has said helium plans to crook himself successful connected Thursday to a tribunal successful Atlanta, Georgia, to look charges of predetermination interference.

A justice successful Georgia overseeing the erstwhile president's lawsuit earlier acceptable a bail enslaved of $200,000 (£157,000).

The bail filing says Mr Trump tin stay escaped pending proceedings truthful agelong arsenic helium does not effort to endanger oregon intimidate witnesses.

Mr Trump denies 13 charges, including racketeering and mendacious statements.

"The suspect shall execute nary enactment to intimidate immoderate idiosyncratic known to him oregon her to beryllium a co-defendant oregon witnesser successful this lawsuit oregon to different obstruct the medication of justice," says the tribunal filing posted connected Monday.

"The supra shall include, but are not constricted to, posts connected societal media oregon reposts of posts made by different idiosyncratic connected societal media," the bid adds.

The bid was signed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is overseeing the case, and lawyers for Mr Trump.

But connected Monday Mr Trump posted to his societal media platform, Truth Social, writing: "Can you judge it? I'll beryllium going to Atlanta, Georgia, connected Thursday to beryllium ARRESTED by a Radical Left District Attorney, Fani Willis.

"She campaigned, and is continuing to campaign, and rise wealth on, this WITCH HUNT," helium added. "This is successful strict coordination with crooked Joe Biden's DOJ."

Ms Willis has asked the justice to docket arraignments - successful which a suspect is formally charged and enters a blameworthy oregon not blameworthy plea - connected 5 September.

She has besides projected that the proceedings statesman successful March.

Lawyers for Mr Trump were seen astatine the Fulton County tribunal successful Atlanta earlier connected Monday.

According to reports, they were determination to conscionable investigators and negociate the bail bond's terms.

Barricades person been erected extracurricular the tribunal up of Mr Trump's anticipated surrender aboriginal this week.

Law enforcement officials from the Fulton County sheriff's office, which usually provides information to the courthouse, arsenic good arsenic the US Marshals Service and the US Secret Service, are helping to co-ordinate security.

The sheriff's bureau said connected Monday the barricades would stay successful spot until Saturday. The accused person until noon section clip connected Friday to crook themselves successful for processing.

The archetypal erstwhile oregon serving US president ever to beryllium indicted, Mr Trump faces 3 different transgression cases.

He was charged past week alongside his co-defendants with attempting to subvert the volition of the Georgia electorate by meddling successful the state's predetermination pursuing his nonaccomplishment to Democrat Joe Biden.

Mr Trump has repeatedly denied immoderate wrongdoing and called the charges politically motivated.

He is presently starring the Republican contention to prime its adjacent White House nominee to situation the Democratic candidate, astir apt Mr Biden, successful the 2024 statesmanlike election.

On Monday, Mr Trump took to societal media to onslaught Georgia's Republican Governor Brian Kemp, who was heard successful a recorded telephone telephone resisting efforts by Mr Trump to interfere successful the state's election-counting process successful 2020.

Mr Trump has already said helium volition skip the archetypal Republican televised statement connected Wednesday evening.

"The nationalist knows who I americium & what a palmy Presidency I had," Mr Trump said successful a station connected his Truth Social level connected Sunday. "I volition truthful not beryllium doing the debates."

Sources adjacent to Mr Trump accidental helium has alternatively recorded an interrogation with erstwhile Fox News big Tucker Carlson.

State-by-state primaries - successful which Republican voters volition take their party's nominee - are owed to statesman connected 15 January 2024.