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Former President Donald Trump surrendered Thursday to charges that he illegally engineered a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. That 20-minute order yielded a historic first: a photograph of a former US president.

He was released on $200,000 bail and headed back to the airport to fly back home to New Jersey.

Trump's surrender to law enforcement has become a familiar routine of election-season fashion, which belies the unprecedented spectacle of the former president facing criminal charges in four different cities.

But his visit to Atlanta was a marked departure from three previous surrenders that took place at night and required him to visit a troubled prison - not a courthouse - not a liberal bastion like New York or Washington, but rather the heart. from the city. A crucial battleground state for the 2024 presidential election. And unlike other cities where he didn't have to pose for a mug shot, he had a backup photo taken, according to a person familiar with the procedure.