Today, Trump's former lawyer, the former mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani, voluntarily

surrendered at the Fulton County Jail.

Mr. Giuliani was formally arrested for his alleged role in the effort to overturn the

results of the 2020 election in Georgia.

But there was one part of that very standard criminal procedure that really seemed to anger

the former mayor, America's mayor.

I don't know if I speak today, but if I do, I please not yield it.

And I get photographed.

Isn't that nice?

A mug shot for the man who promptly put the worst criminals of the 20th century in jail.

They're going to take it and degrade themselves by doing a mug shot of me.

Like people will recognize me.

So here is that mug shot.

This is what Giuliani was so incensed about, being photographed at a county jail and

paraded in front of the press like a criminal, which is ironic.

Part of what made Rudy Giuliani a national figure in the first place was his practice of

parading people in front of the press like they were criminals.

When Giuliani was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York in the 1980s,

he repopularized the concept of the purplock.

Giuliani didn't invent the practice of allowing the press to photograph and arrest, but as

a criminal law professor from Loyola Marymount University put it, Mr. Giuliani took that practice

and made an art form out of it.

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