Why Trump’s Mugshot Is A Big Win For Trump | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Ben Shapiro.

Publisher's Note: This series of posts on this one issue - The Unprecedented FBI Raid of President Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate - can all be found here on ENC NOW.

    Donald Trump's mugshot will be the most trafficked photo in the history of planet Earth because social media is so ubiquitous.

    Yesterday, he went to the Fulton County jailhouse where he was arrested and fingerprinted. They took his picture. The mugshot is now out.

    It's a win for Trump to have his mugshot taken. The Left thought it would be a win for them, but here's the thing about Trump: Trump is a walking, living, breathing meme. He is made for TV. He is made for the Internet. He's changed our age because of that.

    It's not as though no one knew he was arrested. It's not as though it was a shock dawning on the American people that Donald Trump is under indictment in four separate jurisdictions. We've known about all of this for months.

    What the mugshot does - especially this particular mugshot - is give Trump the appearance of somebody who is bravely standing up to forces that are going after him.

    Whatever else you can say about the guy, he was a TV star; he knows what he looks like on camera. There is zero chance that before he did this mugshot, he didn't sit with his team and say, "Okay, what expression should I use in the mugshot since it's going to be the most trafficked photo of me ever? What expression should I use?"

    This is a pitch-perfect shot for Trump's purposes; he doesn't look as though he's afraid or concerned or anxious. He doesn't even look angry.

    He looks determined. The goal here is to look as though he is the face of doom and coming for his enemies.

    And that's what it looks like.

    This is what he is going to convey for the rest of the campaign: I'm coming for my enemies. And your enemies are my enemies.

    There's a reason why he's already trotting it out on the mugs; there's a reason why he's already trotting it out on the T-shirts and the cash machines at the Trump headquarters are going nonstop.

    Everybody knew that Donald Trump was supposed to show up for the arrest at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time last night. At exactly that time, Joe Biden tweeted out, "Apropos of nothing, I think today's a great day to give to my campaign."


    Those are bad optics for Biden. Trump's entire case here is that the Democratic Party infrastructure is going after Donald Trump to make Joe Biden president. So at the exact time that Trump is showing up to be arrested, Biden tweets out, "I think today's a great day to give to my campaign."

    Biden and Co. claim this isn't a political prosecution and then Biden tweets out that message exactly as the arrest is happening, rather than, "This is a sad day for our country."

    To tweet that message at precisely that time is just disgusting.

poll#157

Was it a judicious ploy for Joe Biden's FBI to execute the unprecedented raid of President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate?

  Yes; the Cheneys despise this former Republican president, and for good reason ... so they say.

  No; never has a former president been treated with this level of vindictive abuse by those temporarily in power.

  Who cares? It's Trump.

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Considering what real news is available for all to witness, and in great specificity, should one pursue what is true outside of the channeled realm of the corrupt corporate /legacy media, and: Is Institutionalized Corruption real, and is it a hindrance to sustaining our Constitutional Republic now, and for future generations of American citizens?

  Yes

  No

  Not sure

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poll#165

In light of continued developments, primarily since 2008, there exists in these United States a Legal System which operates on a proved Two Tiered approach to justice rendered, which primarily benefits Democratic Elites and Woke Ideological Virtue Signalers, representing their co-dependent wards, to the expressed exclusion of normal hardworking American citizens: What is your suggestion in remedying this widespread injustice and, if not corrected, its existential outcome for our Constitutional Republic?

  Complete overhaul of the Department of Justice and their enforcers - the FBI - to reflect a far more honest justice system to keep patriots remaining calm.

  Disband the FBI, and request that congress investigate all unethical and non patriotic practices to partially right the wrongs of a distrusted and politically weaponized "Department of Justice."

  Continue with the current system since the two tiered justice system has been so remarkably beneficial to Democratic Socialist political hegemony; chronic distrust in institutions notwithstanding.

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