The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office has released a mug shot of Donald Trump, after the former president was booked on more than a dozen felony charges as part of a wide-ranging criminal case stemming from the former US president’s attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia.

Mr Trump – inmate no. P01135809, according to Fulton County Jail records – spent about 20 minutes on Friday inside the jailhouse, where his mugshot was taken.

Records at Fulton County Jail on Friday show Mr Trump is 6 foot 3 inches (1.9 metres) tall and weighs 215 pounds (97.5 kilograms). He is listed as having blue eyes and blonde or strawberry hair.

The mugshot represents a first for Mr Trump, who did not have to sit for a photograph when answering charges in his three other criminal cases.

The former president made a short speech as media gathered outside his private plane, calling it a “very sad day for America”.

“You should be able to challenge an election. I believe the election was a rigged election,” he told reporters.

“I did nothing wrong and everybody knows it.

“We have every right, every single right to challenge an election that we think is dishonest.”

Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat has said all 19 defendants in the Georgia election subversion case will go through the same process as any other criminal defendant in the county, which includes having fingerprints and mug shots taken.

Mr Trump, 77, already has entered uncharted territory as the first former president to face criminal charges, although the four cases filed against him have not damaged his front-runner status in the race for the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic President Joe Biden in the November 2024 election.

Mr Trump faces 13 felony counts in the Georgia case, including racketeering, which is typically used to target organised crime, for pressuring state officials to reverse his election loss and setting up an illegitimate slate of electors to undermine the formal congressional certification of Biden’s 2020 victory.