Donald Trump has raised more than seven million dollars after the photo that the police took of him in Atlanta, Georgia, when they arrested him last Thursday.
The image, made afterThe former president will surrender to the authorities, shows him very seriously, with an annoyed but at the same time defiant expression, while staring at the camera.
In the booking photo, the seal of the Fulton County Sheriff's Office, responsible for disseminating the snapshot, which immediately went viral, appears in the corner.
Trump himself shared it on his Twitter account along with the text: "ELECTORAL INTERFERENCE, NEVER GIVE UP!"
As he toldCNN A Trump campaign official, on Friday alone, 24 hours after his arrest in Georgia, raised $4.18 million, making it the highest-grossing day.
Part of that figure comes from the sale of products with the former president's inmate photograph.
The image, accompanied by the phrase "Never give up!", is offered on t-shirts, caps, flags, glasses, mugs and stickers that can be purchased on the official website ofmerchandising of the Republican leader's campaign.
"It will spread throughout the world. It will be a more popular image than the Mona Lisa," he toldABC Laura Loomer, former Republican congressional candidate who went to the jail on Thursday where Trump surrendered to show her support.
For his part, Trump assures in hisweb that he was arrested in Georgia "despite having committed no crime," and describes what happened as "a travesty of justice and electoral interference."
Although this is the fourth time criminal charges have been brought against the former president, for the first time he was booked into a jail and had his mugshot taken.
"1.91 meters tall, 98 kilos in weight, blue eyes and reddish hair," describes his police file.
Trump spent about 20 minutes in the Fulton County Jail, where he was fingerprinted and assigned identification number P01135809. He had to post bail of $200,000 to be released pending trial.
He is accused of conspiring to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election in the State of Georgia.
Last June, it emerged that the head of state hadraised more than $7 million since news of his federal indictment broke.
"Since the deranged Jack Smith took the unprecedented step of using the judicial system as a weapon to attack his political opponent, Donald J. Trump for President 2024 has raised more than $6.6 million in just a few days," revealed his qcampaign team in a statement sent to CiberCuba.
Trump alleges the charges are a Democratic-led attack to keep him out of the 2024 presidential race, which would have led to a significant increase in funding from his supporters.
"They're not coming for me, they're coming for you," he wrote in a fundraising email, a day after being arraigned and pleading not guilty to all 37 charges in court.
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