Donald Trump is about to make history as the first former POTUS to be criminally charged. His team has pushed the ex-president to turn his mugshot into fuel for a fundraising drive, or as a potent new symbol on his 2024 campaign merchandise
become public soon, whether Trump makes the first move or not. And there’s a widespread belief that the mugshot would be a gold mine.
Senior members of Team Trump have already casually discussed, the sources say, options for putting the ex-president’s mugshot on merchandise, hats, T-shirts, and other garments, and also for blasting out fundraising pitches to donors and Trump supporters that would include the mugshot, possibly in meme’d format.
One of the sources reveals that Trump was recently briefed that a 2024 fundraising blitz, centered around the mugshot, would almost certainly net the Trump campaign millions of dollars. Normal political candidates would seek to keep an anticipated felony arrest and booking as quiet as possible. But Trump is not susceptible to the usual emotions of shame. Instead, he sees himself as the victim of a politically motivated prosecution, and is seeking to amplify that message by
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