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25th August 2023
09:31am BST
He spent roughly 20 minutes at the facility.
He later told reporters at the airport: “I thought the election was a rigged election, a stolen election.
“And I should have every right to do that.
“As you know, you have many people that you’ve been watching over the years do the same thing, whether it’s Hillary Clinton or [former candidate for Georgia governor] Stacey Abrams, or many others.”
After the mugshot was released, he shared a post on X, formerly Twitter, for the first time since January 2021.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1694886846050771321
He has already been charged in two other cases: with mishandling classified files and falsifying business records to cover up a hush-money payment to a porn star.
The election investigation focused on Trump’s actions in the two-month period between his loss to Joe Biden and the riot, which saw his supporters storm Congress.
The man leading the inquiry, special counsel Jack Smith, said: “The attack on our nation’s capital on January 6 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy. As described in the indictment it was fuelled by lies.”
The indictment also says Trump tried and failed to convince vice president Mike Pence to attempt to block Biden’s certification as president on January 6, 2021.
Trump now faces 78 criminal counts overall, in three different cases, the BBC noted.
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