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Trump raised $7.1 million after Georgia booking, mugshot

www.politico.com 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.

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"A fool and his money are soon parted" is once again proven true.
- My dad used to smuggly say this all the time. Look who is laughing now that he is maga cuck
  
  no it's completely ridiculous how many things they will misuse in exactly this way.. there is strange magic afoot, friends.. keep your wits about you..
- I hate saying it but this fool is still winning. Everyone else is losing.
  
  Or maybe everything in life has nuance and can't be simply boiled down to "winning" and "losing".
  Trump is not only mega rich, but he's also the head of an actual cult of personality. Those are feathers in his cap no doubt. On the other hand, not only has he lost multiple elections, he's a twice impeached criminal with 91 very serious charges (and counting) against him and a pile of hard evidence to back it all up. The odds of him spending what few remaining years he has left behind bars are non-zero, and no matter what happens he will incur massive financial costs one way or another.
  In an alternate reality he could have sat out 2016 and spent the last decade of his life golfing and stuffing his fat fucking face, and he would have still been rich enough to live however he wanted. But instead he has put the world's biggest magnifying glass up his own corrupt asshole, and it's all not looking so great.
  
  Are we watching the same game? Are you in a parallel universe?
  
  No he fucking isn’t. Have you been asleep for 2023?????
  
  Winning what exactly?

"...according to figures provided first to POLITICO by his campaign."
The same group that said 6'3" 215, right?
STOP taking headlines on face value and check/challenge actual sources of information (I.e. trump campaign)
- Ummm isn't trump the "group" that said he was 6'3" 215. How the fuck is politico suppose to take the heat for trump being vain as fuck?
- Politico is part of Axel Springer now, the German wannabe murdoch clone. Take everything with a grain of salt.
  
  I didn't know that.

Good. Every dime he gets takes a dime from GOP candidates.
He bankrupted two casinos, let's hope he destroys the GOP
- He definitely helped destroy the GOP currently. They split their voter base between typical conservatives and Trump (tm) voters. And with with desaints falling flat in Florida recently i doubt there will be enough support for him as a mainline conservative
  
  I had hoped that the split would have come much sooner. I want to see an unbeatable Dem majority in 2024.

The dude can’t fail at failing.
- I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. How the fuck do people still think this guy is what we need. Such a cult
  
  Because they've compromised their morals so much to get to where they are that they feel like there's no turning back.
  
  Because until recently, we didn't teach kids that making a mistake or changing one's mind is ok and a sign of learning and growth. You know, that same social-emotional learning that became a conservative boogeyman.
  So a bunch of people grew up to be assholes who feel less masculine or powerful if they admit they were wrong or consider new information. Sprinkle in the narcissists, and behold, the cognitive dissonance olympics.
  
  He says he'll hurt the people they don't like.
  
  Because they’re totally telling the truth right? Even if they are…. Who fucking cares? That ain’t gonna sway the judge or jury
  
  I wonder if Italians or Germans said the same before WWII. Are Americans so uniquely deranged? I feel crazy, too. I wonder how long before my brain is feeble enough to fall for fascist dogma.
- Or somehow succeeding while failing... HOw you can get people to give you 7 million after pulling that shit is exactly why people still stake him. They somehow belive that he will pulle throught whatever. The worst thing is that he actually might, thats why they sonehow love him, because they all want that power.
  
  This is the definition of "failing up"
- Task failed successfully.

villagers throwing money down a well, because they believe something down there likes them

No he didn't.

Grifters gonna grift.

I just do not understand how this Zoolander mugshot can motivate people for anything but laughter. But apparently they even give money after seeing it.

How much of that is just laundering Russian money?
Can we see the donor list, please?
- Russia has any money left?

Oh for sure. This is the most iconic image in us political history and all sides are fundraising off of it.
- The biggest thing I've got from the mugshot is that Crybaby Trump must never again have any nuclear launch codes.
- IDK about most iconic. Raising flag over Iwo Jima photo? 9/11 photos? JFK portrait photo? Just off the top of my head.
  Trump doing a mini fundraiser over the whole "look how mad I am for the true Americans" B.S. expression he put on. Dems basically just saying "look at this dumbass" and ready to forget it within a week.
  
  The first 2 are historical events and when was the last time the JFK photo made the rounds on every media outlet?
  This photo will be used by the left in every election for the next 50 years, and will be used by Trump until the day he dies.

How many days of lawyer fees is that?
- Infinity, because he doesn't pay his lawyers.
- 2,333 hours of lawyers time at $3000 an hour.

If he's convicted, does this count as proceeds gained via criminal activity, which he would then forfeit?
- Nah, it's specifically not a crime to be arrested, that'd be an infinite jail glitch.
  He'll waste it all on lawyers whose job will be to disprove hard evidence though, since he's very guilty, so it'll be fine.
  
  But he could misuse funds or commit other fraud with them.

That'll buy a lot of soap and toothpaste from the prison commissary!
- He is going to buy ramen and use the flavor packets as spray tan.
- It's going straight to his lawyers.
  
  Trump don't pay lawyers. So not going there.
- Ramen noodles
- Might be enough for a Gameboy Color and a 10 minute chat with Don Jr.

To be fair, that mug shot was going to be printed on Tshirts and sold for millions to both sides of the spectrum regardless of who was selling it. It somehow really is an awesome mugshot.
- The Trump campaign doesn’t own it, so Trump shouldn’t profit from it unless you buy directly from their merch shop. Best thing to do is sell T shirts and donate the profits

Sure pal

This confirms the narrative his machine has been pushing. It can't help but mobilize his base.
Morally and legally it's the right thing to do. Politically, I'm not sure - I don't know what would be better, but this will likely help him in the short/medium term.
- Before I write this, I want one thing to be clear. I find Trump to an absolutely repugnant person, and elevating him to the Presidency has debased the office. I found him unfit for office in 2016, and I don’t believe he should be eligible for 2024.
  For better or worse, however, there are a couple of truths about this whole mess as it currently stands. A former President is being prosecuted by the Justice Department of a political rival’s administration. It’s the right thing to do, but it does create a certain precedent that could be disastrous for our democracy. I think Biden saw that, and I think that’s why the Justice Department has waited this long to do anything about it. If his polling numbers were garbage, and he was unlikely to get the Republican nomination, I doubt he’d be getting prosecuted to avoid the appearance of political persecution.
  Luckily though, I don’t think Trump is popular enough among independent voters to win the office. Until more polling comes out to tell me otherwise, I don’t think he can beat Biden. He’ll take the Republican primaries in a landslide, but once he needs the independent vote, I doubt he’ll perform nearly as well.
  It’ll be a real mess if he catches a conviction too. The man is a walking constitutional crisis.
  
  the absence of prosecution is very much as political as the prosecution. Not prosecuting what is, in reality, a failed attempt at a coup.... is what would be disastrous for our democracy. not that there's a lot of that left, given the sheer number of dumb-asses that think it was "justified".
  
  We can't not prosecute him.
  We can't set the precedent. Yes he's the first. I hope he's the only.
  I'm going to leave the above statements here. If you object, down vote. So be it.
  If you support the rule of law and don't agree that he needs a fair trial, tell us here.
  
  I hate that you feel that you have to preface this with a disclaimer so people don't dogpile you.
  I think Brazil is a nice little preview of what will happen next here in America. Bolsonaro used the Justice system to imprison a political rival, Lula. Lula of course was corrupt, but the fact of whether he's guilty or not doesn't matter. He was prosecuted because he was polling well.
  He ended up going to jail but then shortly after was released. What happened next? Lula is now president of Brazil and now his administration is trying to prosecute Bolsonaro and throw him in jail.
  No matter how you slice it, this prosecution of Trump is bad news. We are in for a rough time and an unclear future. They may ultimately only be helping Trump take over the country.
  
  If there was a god, Trump would die from a heart attack in the near future. The only way to prevent further damage is for the sack of shit to die asap.
  But if Trump taught us anything, there is no God or justice in the universe. He's done more to damage our country than almost any single person, and has made a mockery of the concept of equality under the law. It's truly pathetic
  
  What happens if he wins the primary, and then is convicted and ineligible for the office? Does the RNC just pick the runner up or what?

I'm already laughing, but I'm going to be laughing even harder when this all backfires on the Trump haters.
- I'm also laughing. At fools who give money to a guy who brags about being rich.
  
  He won't stop until he takes everything from them. Their money. Their dignity. Their friends and family. Their soul.
  Trump is a dangerous cult leader.
- You think this is going to change anyone's vote?
  You think someone that was going to vote for Biden saw this and said "well actually I'll vote for a criminal instead!"
  Get ready to get fucked in the ass at the polls in 2024. You guys just love to lose so you can play the victim

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