Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, surrendered to the Fulton County Jail in Georgia on Wednesday to face charges related to actions he accuses of overturning the former president’s 2020 U.S. election loss, reports said Reuters, according to the News. ro.

Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor and former New York mayor, was ordered to post $150,000 bail and have no contact with any of the 18 co-defendants or witnesses in the case, according to court documents.

“This impeachment is a travesty,” Giuliani told reporters after appearing in prison. “This is an encroachment on the Constitution,” he added.

Seven of Trump’s other co-defendants in a criminal case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fanny Willis that accuses them and their associates of trying to overturn his 2020 Georgia election loss have also turned themselves in to an Atlanta jail, according to government documents.

Trump, who is the front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination to challenge Democratic President Joe Biden, continues to falsely claim that the 2020 election was “stolen” by massive voter fraud. Giuliani played an important public role in the Trump campaign’s efforts to make false allegations of election fraud.

Trump intends to surrender for impeachment

Trump was scheduled to turn himself in Thursday to face his fourth criminal indictment this year. The other ten co-defendants named in the indictment in Georgia are due to surrender by Friday.

Trump called the four impeachments politically motivated.

In the Georgia case, Giuliani was accused of making several false claims of election fraud, including to officials in other states, such as Arizona and Pennsylvania, in an unsuccessful attempt to get them to approve voter rolls as an alternative to Congressional certification of elections. results to keep Trump in power.

Giuliani and other Trump associates are also accused of making false statements to Georgia lawmakers about the election.

Attorney Sidney Powell, who played a key role in promoting Trump’s false fraud claims, was arrested Wednesday, according to information posted on the sheriff’s website.

Trump campaign attorney Kenneth Chesebro, who is accused of allegedly helping to engineer a plan to submit false voter rolls to Trump to prevent congressional certification, also turned himself in to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday, according to jail records.

Ray Smith, an attorney who previously represented Trump in Georgia, also surrendered on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, Trump’s former lawyer John Eastman and Republican Scott Hall turned themselves in, and former Georgia GOP leaders Kathy Latham and David Schafer were taken into custody overnight, according to the jail.

Shafer, former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark have asked to take their cases to federal court.

Trump has pleaded not guilty to two sets of criminal charges brought by Jack Smith, a special counsel appointed by US Attorney General Merrick Garland, a Biden appointee, of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat and possession of classified documents by termination. . Trump also pleaded not guilty in a case in Manhattan related to the porn star’s impersonation before the 2016 election.