kalm wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 1:19 pm
GannonFan wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 11:29 am
I wonder how long and how many iterations of mug shot photo poses they went through before they landed on this one. And as despicable as Trump is, you do have to hand it to him and his team that they knew how to handle and how to profit off of this. We're going to see that mug shot for the rest of our lives now on every novelty thing you can think of.
If there was ever a doubt that this was going to be a super- shi**y election season the drama around that mug shot should put away all those doubts, Ugh.
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Trump is effective at marketing and clearly still operates from the “no such thing as bad publicity” philosophy. Ironically this comes at a time when most marketing avoids negative publicity at all costs in attempt to appear woke.
The angry mug shot appeals to those still willing to defend him and possibly take action and provides momentary cover from the actual nuts and bolts of the case which are truly damning.
The thing is, I think only 2 of the 4 cases are ones they have a good shot of getting convictions on. The Stormy Davis hush money is never going to hold up and this Georgia one is way too broad. I think the strongest one is the classified documents - and not that he had them but what he did to conceal he had them - and the federal one in DC is a bit stronger. I just worry that because we've added some weaker cases into this that when he goes not guilty in those cases it will undermine the stronger cases.
And again, all of this could've been avoided if the Dems hadn't been so hellbent on impeaching him, even before he took office the first time, that they blew their shot with a shoddy and weak impeachment attempt the first time with that call to Ukraine. If we hadn't done that he could've been impeached and removed from office after the 1/6 mob and we could've gotten him banned from office in the future. If he ends up getting a second term that could be the biggest self-imposed fail in political history.