A contingent of supporters and a swarm of media have descended on the spot where the former President will soon be booked on RICO charges.
Photograph by Alyssa Pointer / Bloomberg / GettyBy Wednesday morning, Sharon Anderson and Mike Boatman had staked out a shady spot of grass within eyeshot of the visitor entrance to the Fulton County Jail, a razor-fenced concrete structure in northwest Atlanta where at least twenty-two inmates have died since January of 2022. The two of them sat in lawn chairs.
They’d met at a Trump rally and become friends. They “traipsed all over the country” in support of Trump, Anderson, the bigger talker, said. “My husband stays at home on the farm,” she explained, noting that they had forty acres and a number of “show mules.” “Southaven, Mississippi,” Boatman said. He’d been there, too.Boatman pulled out his cell phone and showed me one. “He knows us,” he said.
“He’d requested to meet us, is what we were told,” Anderson said, adding that she and Boatman had been supporters “since the escalator”—i.e., the day in June, 2015, when Trump descended a golden escalator in Trump Tower and announced his Presidential campaign. A middle-aged man in a tie walked up. “God bless you, patriots,” he said, smiling at Anderson and Boatman.They got into a discussion about parking, which was difficult. Then the man, whose name was Robert Bowes, explained his role. “I’m a Trump appointee,” he said. “Campaign, transition, White House policy. Helping out with some of these folks on election investigation and defense.” He’d come to the jail to do messaging and logistics, he said.
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