What will impact be with voters if Trump is forced to take a mug shot?

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(08-28-2023, 11:53 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Sorry, I know you feel the need to defend your friend, but he's the one who started with the personal attacks here.  Also, yes, he flat out made a post that stated numerous times that it was a myth, that it couldn't have happened and that it was apocryphal.  Then, in typical fashion, he claimed he never said any of that and was only quoting others.

Secondly, if you're going to call out behavior than be consistent.  Dill is the first person to bring other threads into this argument by attacking my posting history instead of the actual argument I was making.  But you'll never, ever, call him out.  If I get attacked, I am going to defend myself.

Lastly, if you really want this forum to be what you claim you want then start applying your standards for behavior equally, not just to the people you don't like or disagree with.  I won't be responding to this any further as you'll simply use it as "evidence" of my continuing to disrupt things. 

Again I disagree with how you interpreted that entire discussion but I acknowledge it is personal for you, it just doesn't have anything to do with this topic.  That's mainly why I responded to you first.

I agree Dill should also refrain from continuing along these lines whether he is my "friend" or not.  But if "applying your standards for behavior equally, not just to the people you don't like or disagree with" is going to be standard there won't be many posters left here on either side. 

I'll also stop here.

Back to the mug shot.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/26/trump-mugshot-fundraising-00113118

Quote:Trump raised $7.1 million after Georgia booking, mugshot
The former president raised $4.18 million on Friday alone, the single-highest 24 hour period of his campaign to date.




After Donald Trump was taken into custody, his campaign began selling shirts, posters, bumper stickers and beverage coolers bearing Trump’s scowling mugshot. | Fulton County Sheriff’s Office via AP
By ALEX ISENSTADT
08/26/2023 06:18 PM EDT
Updated: 08/26/2023 07:10 PM EDT

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Donald Trump has turned his Georgia mugshot into a record-breaking fundraising haul.

The former president has raised $7.1 million since he was booked at an Atlanta jail Thursday evening, according to figures provided first to POLITICO by his campaign. On Friday alone, Trump raised $4.18 million, making it the single-highest 24-hour period of his campaign to date, according to a person familiar with the totals.

The campaign’s fundraising has been powered by merchandise it has been selling through his online store. After Trump was taken into custody, the campaign began selling shirts, posters, bumper stickers and beverage coolers bearing Trump’s scowling mugshot. The items bear the tagline “NEVER SURRENDER!” and range in price from $12 to $34.





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The campaign has also been prodding online donors with emails and text messages. And on Thursday night, while flying back from Atlanta to Bedminster, N.J. Trump sent out his first tweet in more than two years directing supporters to his website. The site’s landing page includes the mugshot and asks supporters to “make a contribution to evict Crooked Joe Biden from the White House and SAVE AMERICA during this dark chapter in our nation’s history.”

The fundraising blitz illustrates how Trump has parlayed his four indictments into campaign cash, rallying his hardcore supporters.
Trump’s campaign says it has raised nearly $20 million in the last three weeks, during which time Trump was indicted on charges related to his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and for trying to overturn the Georgia vote count in the 2020 election. That figure is more than half of what Trump raised during his first seven months in the 2024 race.

Private, non-political organizations have also been trying to monetize the mugshot. Barstool Sports, a prominent sports and pop culture website, for instance, has been selling its own Trump mugshot t-shirts for $32.

A fool and his money are soon parted.  And 1135809 can grift with the best of them.


If he shot someone on 5th avenue he'd have the bullet up for auction that day with followers falling over each other to own it.