terrible experience. i came in. i was treated very nicely, but it is what it is. i took a mug shot, which i never heard the words mug shot. they didn t teach me at the wharton school of finance. in my whole life, i didn t know anything about indictments and now i ve been indicted like four times, and all by the radical left, and it s in coordination, absolute in coordination with the justice department. reporter: and so you heard what he had to say there. now, keep in mind, he is not the only defendant. there are of course 18 other co-defendants. the majority of them have turned themselves in. there are still a couple of more that still need to come to the fulton county jail by noon today, so they ve got less than two hours now to turn themselves in. the sheriff did say that he believes in a statement he said he believes everybody will comply with this deadline and surrender by noon today. it was such an odd or surreal
of a conspiracy that used unlawful means to try to overturn his 2020 election loss there. blayne alexander reports tonight from atlanta. reporter: tonight, former president trump is speaking out about that unprecedented photograph seen literally around the world. his mug shot, a historic first after surrendering at a georgia jail. i was treated very nicely, but it is what it is. i took a mug shot, which i never heard the words mug shot. that wasn t didn t teach me that at the wharton school of finance. reporter: mr. trump less than 20 minutes inside the fulton county jail where he was booked, his information already presubmitted, height, weight, and hair color, strawberry blond. he was then released on a $200,000 bond afterward saying he s only being charged because he s the republican front-runner. i did nothing wrong. what they re doing is election interferes.
still in jail after spending his first night behind bars after failing to negotiate bond. but this is the image that will go down in history. printed across front pages around the country, in atlanta, put simply as booked. the entire process took just 20 minutes for donald trump but will resonate for many years. terrible experience, i came in, i was treated very nicely. it is what it is, i took a mug shot, which i never heard the words mug shot at the wharton school of finance. and from newspapers to campaign merch, trump already fundraising off the iconic image, turning it into shirts, mugs, car decals, the punctuation mark on an explosive week. legal experts are raising serious questions about a bigger
i was treated very nicely, but it is what it is. i took a mug shot, which i never heard the words mug shot that wasn t didn t teach me that at the wharton school of finance. i went through an experience today that i never thought i d have to go through. let s take him at his word there. we do fact checks. we do context. but as donald trump has so often proven to be, the washington post said he s lied more than any other public government figure, and they track that. and yet right there you heard a kind of a blurted truth. watergate prosecutor nick akerman standing by. i m going to ask him about that and how it relates to other people booked because it was almost like this person who was caught lying so much actually had to cough up his feeling about how it went. it s not fun. you can sell the merch. you can have some other staffer write an email where you claim to be just, you know, bring on the indictments. but then you heard it in his own voice. we can also tell you trump said
seemingly coining a new campaign slogan, never surrender. elena, what else is trump saying about his arrest? the former president, you re hearing the full range of his rhetoric here. you are hearing him be defiant and use that bravado, both in his public interviews as well as on social media, trying to monetize off of his surrender as well as that mugshot that was taken. he s also privately discussing how he s frustrated by this and he did say in an interview that he thought it was a terrible experience. let s listen to what he had to say. terrible experience. i came in. i was treated very nicely, but it is what it is. i took a mugshot, which i never heard the words mugshot, that wasn t they didn t teach me that at the wharton school of