Trump Jr. wants MAGA fans to buy mugshot merch from him — not 'other people'
During an episode of his Triggered podcast earlier this week, ex-President Donald Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. said that he would prefer if his MAGA fans bought merchandise displaying his father's mugshot from him than from "other people," HuffPost reports.
"I get other people have made [a] very good living doing the MAGA merch, even if none of the money actually goes toward the [Trump] campaign or the cause," the ex-president's son said.
To Trump Jr., other people are just planning on "lining their own pockets, but he, according to HuffPost, "doesn't 'feel right about profiting' from his dad's arrest."
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The MAGA hopeful had his mugshot taken in a Fulton County Jail last week when he was booked days after an Atlanta grand jury indicted him and 18 others on criminal charges related to their alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
"I’d probably actually get killed in the press, thinking about it now," he said, referring to potential backlash he'd receive for profiting off the former president's mug shot.
HuffPost notes, "If, however, one does want to buy some mug shot merchandise, he said, they can go to his website, where they'll find a veritable cornucopia of shirts, posters, koozies, hoodies and coffee mugs featuring the infamous photo."
He said, "That's the nature of capitalism. But I figured if you're going to buy it, this is a good place to do it."
Additionally, according to the report, "Stressing that it's 'important' to show support for his father, the younger Trump promised he would give 'all of the profits' to his dad's legal defense fund to 'push back against some of the insanity, the miscarriage of justice.'"
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