The Donald Trump mugshot
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has been indicted again. But this time, it was the full works, including obligatory mugshot. This mugshot, of a scowling, glowering Trump appeared all over social media, at Trump's own hand, as he returned to Twitter (currently ridiculously known as X) to urge his followers to "NEVER SURRENDER!"
Jon makes an unusual appearance on a Friday, but couldn't resist it in the wake of the legal nightmare the US now finds itself inhabiting. He joins Lewis to discuss what's different about this indictment, what next and why Trump seems to draw vitality and strength from something as incredible as being arrested.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.8 | You were in custody today. It's totally absurd, in my opinion. But what was it like? How do they treat you? |
| 0:18.8 | What was the experience like today in jail? |
| 0:21.3 | Terrible experience. I came in. I was treated very nicely. I took a mugshot, which I never heard |
| 0:29.2 | the words mugshot. That wasn't, didn't teach me that at the Wharton School of Finance. And I |
| 0:35.2 | have to go through a process. |
| 0:36.9 | Of course, Donald Trump didn't know what a mugshot was. He's had a sheltered, very protected |
| 0:42.3 | life as a property tycoon in Manhattan where he's got every lawyer under the sun on speed dial and has |
| 0:49.2 | worked with some pretty dodgy people. He wouldn't know what a mugshot was, let alone an indictment. |
| 0:55.9 | He's never been involved in litigation in his life, has he? Old Donald. But he certainly is now, |
| 1:00.9 | because this was his fourth indictment, but it had all of the things that go with an indictment, |
| 1:06.7 | all that we associate with an American indictment, including the famous mug shop, which was released late last night for the whole world to see with Trump glowering down the camera, very blonde, very red, very angry. |
| 1:21.3 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:25.9 | The newsagents. |
| 1:28.2 | It's John. It's John. |
| 1:29.1 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:29.8 | And you'll have noticed, of course, that John is here on a Friday. |
| 1:32.1 | And one of the things about everyone is talking about all of the effects it's having on Trump being indicted sort of time after time. |
| 1:37.7 | But no one's thinking about the fact that every time Trump is indicted, which seems to happen on a Friday. |
| 1:42.0 | John Soapel has to come into the newsagent studio. |
| 1:44.4 | When a butterfly flaps its wings in the rainforest, weird things happen. |
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