Trump co-defendants urged to surrender in the dead of night to avoid long waits in notorious jail

The Fulton County district attorney's office has advised some of Donald Trump's co-defendants to surrender in the middle of the night to avoid a long wait at the jail.

Two of the former president's alleged co-conspirators – Scott Hall and John Eastman – surrendered Tuesday morning, and Trump has said he intends to do so Thursday, but District Attorney Fani Willis recommended that other defendants turn themselves in to authorities around 3 a.m. for a quick turnaround on their booking, reported The Guardian's Hugo Lowell.

Otherwise, prosecutors said, the defendants could be left waiting for hours at the notorious jail.

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Eastman, the conservative attorney who crafted the so-called phony electors plot, issued a statement upon his surrender denying wrongdoing and vowing to fight the charges against him.

Hall, a bail bondsman from Georgia, is charged with breaching voter data in Coffee County, and he was the first defendant in the case to turn himself in.