CNN host Kaitlan Collins and correspondent Sara Murray explained Thursday how Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis may have helped Donald Trump’s campaign.
As Trump arrived at the Fulton County jail for processing shortly after 7:30 p.m., Collins highlighted the fact that Trump knows how to exploit moments meant to damage him for his benefit.
“Trump himself has been not downplaying this. I mean, he has certainly seen how he uses these exact moments to his political advantage,” Collins noted.
Murray agreed and openly questioned the “value” of snapping Trump’s mug shot and releasing it to the public.
“He does use these. I mean, he uses these for fundraising. He uses these to rally his base,” she said. “I mean, that’s one of the questions about the sort of value of a mug shot in this case, right? Sure, it’s treating Donald Trump, if he does get one, the same as any other defendant. But you are also giving him a photo that there is no doubt that he is going to use on promotional material, he’s going to use on fundraising material.”
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins & Sara Murray whine Trump will use his mugshot to raise money for his campaign and wonder if it’s a good idea for him to be given one. pic.twitter.com/2xTGYQpgFc
— Kevin Tober (@KevinTober94) August 24, 2023
In Trump’s three other criminal cases — one brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) and two by special counsel Jack Smith — Trump’s mug shot was not taken. He is, after all, one of the most well-known political figures in the world and one whom the Secret Service is statutorily obligated to protect.
That Trump is one of the most recognizable people on the planet raises an important question: Is the mug shot necessary?
“Do we really need to do this, when we’re talking about a former president of the United States?” Murray pondered. “We know what he looks like.”
Trump, in fact, is already using his mug shot to fundraise for his campaign — and it will undoubtedly be monetarily effective.
Not long after Trump’s processing at the Fulton County jail, he used his first return post to X (formally Twitter) to release his mug shot in a simple, yet highly effective campaign advertisement.
https://t.co/MlIKklPSJT pic.twitter.com/Mcbf2xozsY
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2023
The link included in the post directed supporters to a fundraising landing page specifically designed to capitalize on his arrest. And yes, that page prominently features the mug shot.
I wonder if it ever occured to these two leftwing nitwits that the political hack prosecutor is doing exactly what they say Trump is doing. She is putting out this “mug shot” of Trump in her re-election campaign as a trophy. “Look what I did, elect me. The person who put Trump in jail”. These simple minded Democrats are a blotch on our nation.
Jack, they’re not a blotch, they’re a cum stain or a shit stain.
I can’t wait to see bidens mugshot! It should be printed on rolls of toilet paper!
Sir, it already has been…available since 2019… check on line…BIDEN TOILET PAPER…BUT IT IS COSTLY…MAKE SURE YOU PUTIN IN THE BATHROOM
If the demon-rats continue to PERSECUTE President Trump they ALL will be facing a Real insurrection by “We The People” and they will be summarily executed on the South Lawn of the WH!
And they will hang there so the people can see them, just like the Italians did to Mussolini at the end of World War II !
Guantanamo-Caribbean vacation…all the water-boarding entertainment a left-winger can get in for a lifetime of CRIMINAL INTENT, CONSPIRACY, AND TREASONOUS ACTIONS…THERE WILL BE A LOT OF UNINTENDED INVITATIONS TO NAME OTHER ‘NEW-VACATIONEERS’ to continue the LUAU IN PERPITUITY…A DAMNED-ASS GOOD TIME…WITH RIGHTEOUS INTENTIONS…AND THE ORANGE-jumpsuit will be the FORMAL ATIRE…WELCOME JOE, KAMAL-A, PILLOW-C, SHOE-ME, HILL-liar-y, BILL-I-AM CLINTON, O-BUMMER, FLOATSAM-FAUCI, TELI-MY-YOUR-CUSS…AND A FEW MILLION MORE
It sure isn’t a ‘CUP’ of joe…but the cup depicts the size of TRUMPS worry over the lefts ‘PETTY PLOY’…and TRUMP COULD PROBABLY STUFF ‘JOE’s ASS IN THAT MUG…ONE OF THE PERSONAL ARTICLES THAT WILL BE AFFORDED JOE WHEN HE IS CONVICTED OF TREASON AGAINST THE U.S.A. AND IMPRISONED @LEVENWORTH PRISON
He’s got that look of “FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT”
LOVE IT!