Donald Trump, moments after surrendering: ‘Never surrender’

Thursday night, Donald Trump surrendered and was processed in his fourth set of felony fees, and had his first-ever mugshot taken. As quickly as that image turned public—Trump, head lowered, forehead furrowed, glowering in entrance of the Fulton County Sheriff’s Workplace insignia—his marketing campaign began fundraising off of it. “NEVER SURRENDER,” the $34 T-shirt reads beneath a replica of the mugshot.

Many have already rolled their eyes on the concept of working with “by no means give up” to accompany visible proof that you just did, certainly, give up to the authorities. (For the fourth time.) Trump’s staff will likely argue that he didn’t actually give up, as a result of he’ll combat in courtroom till his choices run out—and he hopes to make use of the 2024 election to eliminate all these pesky felony fees. However … he actually surrendered himself to have that image taken. He may have waited previous the Friday deadline and been arrested. That might have been fundraising gold.

Trump’s glower within the mugshot is presumably an effort to pose for the T-shirt he knew his marketing campaign could be advertising. He’s making an attempt to appear to be a troublesome man, and to his followers—those who imagine that he has the peak and weight of knowledgeable athlete or an motion film star—it in all probability works. However to others, he seems scared, furtively hunched over. Or like a deranged film villain. The thought of placing this image on a shirt with a “by no means give up” message is hilarious, however strive to not level and giggle should you see one strolling round within the wild. That particular person in all probability has a gun and a case of seething rage.

Let’s not overlook that this wasn’t the primary time Trump surrendered himself to face fees, it’s simply the primary time he was handled considerably like a daily felony defendant.

In April, Trump was arraigned in New York on felony fees of falsifying enterprise data. Because the police walked him from processing to the courtroom, they did not even maintain the door for him, the poor man.

Federal officers protected Trump from having footage taken contained in the courthouse when he surrendered for arraignment on felony fees together with willful retention of nationwide protection info and conspiracy to impede, as a result of there are two techniques of justice, and Trump is within the one the place highly effective folks get handled with child gloves. Trump tried to show it right into a circus with a go to to a restaurant crammed with supporters following his arraignment. However make no mistake: He was a person exhibiting up when and the place he was instructed to face severe felony fees.

Trump was once more shielded from something making him appear to be an abnormal felony defendant when he was arraigned on federal felony fees regarding his makes an attempt to overturn the 2020 election, however he didn’t need to be in federal courtroom in Washington, D.C., that day. His presence there was a give up.

Nonetheless many T-shirts they print it on, the mugshot is simply one other affirmation that Donald Trump is a felony defendant—in New York courtroom, in federal courtroom in two jurisdictions, and in Georgia courtroom. And whereas he’s actually not pleading responsible or making any form of a deal, he does present up—and give up—when he’s instructed.

Signal the petition: Disqualify Trump from working for public workplace.