​​Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows surrendered to Georgia authorities at the Fulton County jail on Thursday to face two charges in the racketeering investigation into alleged efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state.

Meadows was booked on $100,000 bond, according to jail records. He joins the ranks of Trump allies including former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and attorney Sidney Powell who have already surrendered to Georgia officials. Trump wrote on his social media platform that he would be arrested at 7:30 p.m. E.T. on Thursday.

Meadows was charged with soliciting the violation of oath by a public officer and violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Attorneys for Meadows did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Fulton County Sheriff’s Office

The four-term North Carolina congressman and Trump's final chief of staff attempted to have his case moved to federal court, a move vehemently opposed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. On Wednesday, a federal judge found Meadows’ arguments “not persuasive” and said Meadows would have to surrender by Willis’ deadline of Friday regardless of what may come from that appeal, which is expected to be heard on Monday.

On Thursday, Willis’ office proposed an October 23 trial date for all defendants, though the complexities of the 19-person case — and potential scheduling conflicts with other Trump prosecutions — would appear to make it all but impossible. The date seemed to be a response to early legal maneuvering by at least one defendant, Kenneth Chesebro, who requested a speedy trial and was granted one by the judge in the case on Thursday afternoon.

“At this time, these deadlines do not apply to any co-defendant,” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee wrote in his order.

Former Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark’s request to have his case moved to federal court was also unable to delay his surrender, as well. His bond was set at $100,000 on Thursday, but he had not yet been booked at the county jail as of mid-afternoon.

Both Clark and Meadows argued they were acting in their capacity as federal officials when they participated in the alleged scheme to help Trump illegally claim Georgia’s electoral votes for himself. Therefore, their lawyers wrote in court filings, any criminal proceedings should take place in federal court, citing laws and judicial precedent that protect federal officials from state prosecutions in certain cases.

"Nothing Mr. Meadows is alleged in the indictment to have done is criminal per se: arranging Oval Office meetings, contacting state officials on the President’s behalf, visiting a state government building, and setting up a phone call for the President,” Meadows attorneys wrote last week. “One would expect a Chief of Staff to the President of the United States to do these sorts of things.”

In the indictment, Meadows was hit with the charge of soliciting the violation of oath by a public officer for participating in a Jan. 2, 2021 phone call with Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger when the then-president spent an hour pleading and threatening the state’s top election official to help him “find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have.” Trump lost the state to Biden by 11,779 votes.

When Raffensperger didn’t relent, Trump said not acting on the conspiracies and lies about election fraud was “a criminal offense” and “a big risk” to the Georgia secretary of state and his lawyer, who was also on the call.

On Thursday, Willis had subpoenas hand delivered to Raffensperger at his home, ordering him to appear in federal court on Monday at 10 a.m., according to court records. Willis also subpoenaed Frances Watson, who served as the chief of the investigations division in Raffensperger’s office and spoke to both Meadows and Trump during the period in late 2020 and early 2021 when prosecutors allege a criminal conspiracy occurred.

Georgia prosecutors also accused Meadows of organizing and participating in meetings with Republican state legislators as part of Trump’s pressure campaign to get states that voted for now-President Joe Biden to send new slates of electors to be counted during the Electoral College process. 

And Meadows is alleged to have worked with Trump and others to develop a legal argument they could bring to then-Vice President Mike Pence to convince him to use his entirely ceremonial role to delay the certification of the Electoral College vote and send the process back to state legislatures, where they hoped for a more favorable outcome.

Before Thursday, nine of the 19 co-defendants had surrendered. In addition to Meadows, Harrison William Prescott Floyd also turned himself in Thursday, but was awaiting a bail hearing as the only one charged in the RICO case who has yet to negotiate a bond.

Court records show Floyd, identified as a former U.S. Marine who’s active with the group Black Voices for Trump, was also arrested three months ago in Maryland on a federal warrant that accuses him of aggressively confronting two FBI agents sent to serve him with a grand jury subpoena.

An agent's affidavit filed in U.S. District Court says Floyd screamed, cursed and jabbed a finger in one FBI agent's face and twice chest-bumped the agent in a stairwell. It says Floyd backed down only when the second agent opened his suit coat to reveal his holstered gun.

Floyd returned to his apartment and called 911 to report that two men had threatened him at his home, one of them armed with a gun.

“They were lucky I didn’t have a gun on me, because I would have shot his (expletive) ass,” Floyd told a dispatcher, according to the FBI agent's affidavit.

Floyd’s attorneys in the federal case did not immediately return a request for comment and attorney information for him in the Georgia case was not in court or jail records.