'A big deal': How a Georgia bail bondsman became the first Trump codefendant to take a plea deal
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🗓️ 30 September 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks to you at home for joining me this hour. |
| 0:03.0 | So in North Georgia, in the city of Augusta, near the border with South Carolina, |
| 0:09.0 | there's a business called Any bail bonding. |
| 0:13.4 | Here's their sales pitch. |
| 0:15.4 | If someone you know was arrested and charged with the crime, |
| 0:19.0 | please contact Augusta bail bonds. Augusta bail bonding can help you get your loved one out of jail quickly. |
| 0:27.0 | Apparently it is a good slogan because Augusta has done brisk business in the state of Georgia. |
| 0:33.6 | According to the Washington Post, since its founding, |
| 0:35.7 | the company has executed more than 200,000 bonds |
| 0:39.2 | with a total liability of over 834 million dollars. |
| 0:45.0 | Now it seems that one of the owners of Augusta Bail Bonding |
| 0:48.0 | is a man named Scott Hall. |
| 0:51.0 | Hall has reportedly done well for himself and because of that he knows a fair |
| 0:55.8 | number of state muckety mucks. |
| 0:57.6 | He is also reportedly a relative of David Bossie, Donald Trump's 2016 Deputy Campaign Chairman. |
| 1:04.6 | And according again to the Washington Post, Mr Hall became enthusiastic about Trump's rise |
| 1:10.0 | in 2016. |
| 1:11.5 | Hall boasted of attending the Trump campaign VIP watch party on |
| 1:15.1 | election night in New York in 2016. So Scott Hall, well connected in the state of |
| 1:21.8 | Georgia and apparently a big Trump booster but also not |
| 1:26.4 | an elected official not a political operative a bail bondsman and yet by November 20th of 2020, Scott Hall finds himself in a |
| 1:36.0 | central role in the Georgia presidential election. Hall's name comes up in an |
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