By Dareh Gregorian and Katherine Doyle - NBC News
Former President Donald Trump announced Monday night that he will turn himself in Thursday in Fulton County, Georgia, after being indicted on a series of charges for his alleged attempts to cling to power after losing the 2020 presidential election.
"Can you believe it? I will be going to Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday to be ARRESTED by radical left-wing District Attorney Fani Willis," Trump wrote on his social network, Truth Social.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who led the investigation against the former president and his allies, had given the defendants until Friday afternoon to surrender voluntarily.
Former President Donald Trump in a photo from late July. Sergio Flores / AFP - Getty Images file
Willis last week indicted Trump and 18 other individuals on charges of racketeering, criminal conspiracy, solicitation and filing of false documents and statements.
The order was signed by Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee. The document, which was also signed by Willis and the former president's lawyers, states that Trump "will not take any act to intimidate any person known to be a co-defendant or witness in this case, or to obstruct the administration of justice."
It also says that the "accused shall not make any direct or indirect threat of any kind against the community or any property of the community; This shall include, but is not limited to, social media posts or reposts of other people's messages on social media."
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The motion was filed in court after members of Trump's legal team, Drew Findling, Marissa Goldberg and Jennifer Little, were seen entering the Fulton County courthouse around 2:10 p.m. ET, walking in the direction of the prosecutor's office. The lawyers declined to comment to reporters on their way to the compound.
Other defendants also agreed with prosecutors on Monday for bail packages. Willis' agreement with Trump was the only one that stipulated as a condition not to threaten the community on social networks.
John Eastman, the lawyer accused of helping orchestrate Trump's plan to bring fake voters to the Electoral College vote count in January 2021, accepted $100,000 bail.
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McAfee signed the agreement Monday morning, according to court documents.
As part of the agreement, Eastman "shall report every 30 days to supervision prior to the commencement of trial" and "shall not perform any act to intimidate any co-defendant or witness in this case or otherwise obstruct the administration of justice."
The order also contends that Eastman "will not communicate in any way, directly or indirectly, about the facts of this case with any person whom he knows to be a co-defendant" or witness "in this case, except through his attorney." Conditions that Trump also agreed to.
Eastman, who is referenced but not charged as a co-conspirator in special counsel Jack Smith's federal criminal case against Trump for allegedly attempting to subvert the results of the 2020 election, features prominently and repeatedly in the prosecution's indictment.
It alleges that Eastman helped devise and carry out a scheme for "alternate" presidential electors to vote for Trump in Georgia and other states where Joe Biden won.
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Eastman's attorney, Harvey Silverglate, said in a statement last week that the charges against his client and the 18 other defendants in the case "establish activities that are political, but not criminal" and that Eastman should not have been charged.
Another architect of the fake voters scheme named as a defendant in the case, attorney Kenneth Chesebro, struck a similar deal, accepting $100,000 bail.
Ray Smith, another Trump lawyer who was allegedly involved in the fake voter scheme, accepted $50,000 bail, according to court documents.
McAfee also signed a bond agreement involving another defendant in the case, Scott Hall. Hall is charged with racketeering and six counts of criminal conspiracy related to a scheme to access voting machines and data in rural Coffee County.
His bail was set at $10,000, according to court records.