Readers are tired of Trump photos. But his mug shot?
Proper now, the nation is confronting the chilling chance that the subsequent president of the USA could possibly be serving from a jail cell, and it’s all due to a jailhouse mug shot that landed with a thud Thursday night time.
Former President Trump, at present indicted on 91 felony counts in 4 instances throughout two states and the federal authorities, is likely one of the most photographed and filmed people in historical past. However no picture taken of him has drawn as a lot curiosity because the low-resolution one snapped Thursday on the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, the place he was indicted together with 18 others for the trouble to overturn the 2020 election lead to Georgia.
How the media cowl Trump — or, to place a finer level on it, how we make him look — has been the topic of debate since he rode down the escalator at Trump Tower and introduced his candidacy in 2015. After Trump unwillingly left workplace in 2021, readers have protested The Instances publishing outstanding pictures of the previous president.
However what occurs when the photograph is the story? Learn on to see how letter writers reacted to The Instances’ protection of the “mug shot seen ’around the world,” as one reader referred to as it.
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To the editor: I used to be greeted Friday morning by seeing, in The Instances, the peerlessly scowling face of former President Trump, in a reserving photograph taken on the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta. He was clearly not happy to be sitting for a jailhouse mug shot. In equity, I wouldn’t be both.
Fact be instructed, I don’t like the person, and I proceed to imagine that he isn’t match to be something however a boorish oaf. He’s world-class at that.
Provided that it is a center-right nation, and that Trump continues to have about the identical degree of assist nationwide that President Biden does, I can readily see the potential of the electoral school placing Trump again into the Oval Workplace.
The query of whether or not he can pardon himself for federal crimes turns into all of the extra fascinating. For the sake of getting a little bit enjoyable with this, let’s say that he wins the presidency and turns into a convicted felon (or vice versa).
Nothing I’m conscious of says that he can’t function chief of the free world from a jail cell. Journey would, presumably, be an issue, however he can be safe. One thing to consider.
Doug Tennant, Dana Level
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To the editor: Trying on the mug shot, I see the caption, “Donald Trump is seen right here listening to a sobbing migrant mom pleading with him to not take her little woman away.”
We should always remember.
Bob Wicks, Brea
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To the editor: Lastly, we noticed Trump booked as a legal defendant, full together with his photograph taken. That includes one of the image-obsessed defendants ever, we knew that it wouldn’t be an atypical mug shot.
Trump didn’t disappoint. He seems to be as if he took nice pains to have his hair freshly dyed, with meticulous placement of each bald-spot comb-over strand.
Then, to cap this momentous event, Trump, nicely, mugged for the digital camera, affecting essentially the most contemptuous look he might handle.
It’s actually a mug shot for the historical past books.
Sarah S. Williams, Santa Barbara
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To the editor: I’m wondering what number of hours Trump spent in entrance of a mirror and merchandise advisors to get the proper pose and glare for the mug shot seen ’around the world.
Trump is at all times searching for an angle, and this was no exception.
Linda Shahinian, Culver Metropolis
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To the editor: The previous president was booked on the Fulton County Jail and launched on bond, and also you determine to run the story on Web page A-5?
As an alternative of his mug shot on the entrance web page, we get a dated {photograph} of Lizzo. Oh nicely. A minimum of you took a break from “Barbie” tales.
I sit up for extra such savvy information judgments when the trials start.
James J. Pacchioli, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Thanks for burying Trump’s mug shot and reserving story contained in the Aug. 25 print version. Whereas the story is extraordinary in itself, it doesn’t belong on the entrance web page.
Sensible editorial determination.
Melanie Crawford, Woodland Hills
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To the editor: The Trump indictment in Georgia rated solely a spot on Web page A-5.
What are you making an attempt to inform us? That it was not vital sufficient for the entrance web page? That the story is nationwide information, and The Instances places solely native information on the entrance web page?
I don’t purchase it. The world’s newspapers put it on the entrance web page. You might have began the Trump story on the entrance web page and continued it contained in the paper.
No, I believe the location carries a part of the story. The medium is the message. What’s that message? That the editor helps Trump?
Ron Harris, Calabasas
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To the editor: Thanks for listening to your readers and resisting the temptation to place Trump’s mug shot on the entrance web page.
Nancy Foster, Pasadena
