{"id":2012678,"date":"2023-08-26T00:35:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T04:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mugshot-turned-rallying-cry-trump-turns-indignity-into-defiance-says-gop-rep\/"},"modified":"2023-08-26T00:36:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T04:36:38","slug":"mugshot-turned-rallying-cry-trump-turns-indignity-into-defiance-says-gop-rep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mugshot-turned-rallying-cry-trump-turns-indignity-into-defiance-says-gop-rep\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Rep says Trump turns mugshot into rallying cry, shows defiance."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmugshot-turned-rallying-cry-trump-turns-indignity-into-defiance-says-gop-rep%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2012678&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Supporters of President Donald Trump Rally Behind\u2064 Him Amid Criminal \u200cCharges<\/h2>\n<p>Supporters of President Donald Trump have \u2063decried his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-coach-accused-of-having-sex-with-17-year-old-student\/\" title=\"Former Coach Accused of Having Sex with 17-Year-Old Student\">recent criminal charges<\/a> and have said officials in Fulton County, Georgia, appear intent on humiliating him with the latest indictment. Now, Rep. Andrew \u2062Ogles (R-Tenn.) says those humiliation efforts may backfire on the former president&#8217;s political opponents.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I think this backfires\u2063 on the \u2064Democrats. I think they&#8217;ve gone too far,&#8221; Mr. Ogles said in an interview with NTD News&#8217; &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntd.com\/capitol-report-full-broadcast-aug-25_938416.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Capitol Report<\/a>&#8216; on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After President Trump turned himself in on Thursday night, Fulton County officials staged him for a mugshot \u200dand \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/after-4-indictments-trump-has-first-mugshot-taken-in-fulton-county-5480277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released the photo online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode\">\n<div class=\"border-comp-divider mb-4 mr-4 w-full max-w-[500px] border px-5 py-4 text-[16px] leading-[20px] text-[#262626] md:float-left\">\n<div class=\"mb-3 font-sans text-[16px] font-semibold uppercase leading-[19px] text-[#2F2F2F]\">Related Stories<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/hes-back-trump-goes-viral-with-return-to-twitter-now-x-5480816\">\u2018He\u2019s Back\u2019: Trump Goes Viral\u200b With Return to Twitter, Now X<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">8\/25\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/trump-reveals-who-won-the-first-gop-debate-5480651\">Trump Reveals \u2063Who\u200c Won the First \u200cGOP Debate<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">8\/25\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While one might see their mugshot as an indignity they&#8217;d wish to \u200bhide, the former president \u200dbroke a two-and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mugshot-turned-rallying-cry-trump-turns-indignity-into-defiance-says-gop-rep\/\" title=\"GOP Rep says Trump turns mugshot into rallying cry, shows defiance.\">-a-half-year absence<\/a> from the X <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> (formerly Twitter) to post the photo with the caption, &#8220;ELECTION INTERFERENCE. NEVER \u2062SURRENDER!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former president has also begun selling official \u200bcampaign <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.winred.com\/save-america-joint-fundraising-committee\/storefront\/never-surrender-white-coffee-mug\/details\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">merchandise<\/a> featuring the photo, such as mugshot \u200bmugs, posters, and t-shirts.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;That mugshot of \u2064him, which was meant\u200d to humiliate him, has now \u2062turned into a rallying cry,&#8221; Mr. \u200dOgles said. &#8220;He looks ticked off, he looks ready to fight, and he should be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Ogles said he \u200bbelieves people from across the political spectrum will see the former president&#8217;s booking photo as a \u200dsign that President Trump \u2064is being persecuted\u2063 and that they could \u2064similarly be\u2064 targeted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think regardless of your political \u200cpersuasion, Republican, Democrat, independent, somewhere in between, this should \u200dalarm you that \u2063you have a former\u2063 president being targeted, persecuted,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What that \u2063means is that you\u200d are now vulnerable to \u2062the same type of attack. If they don&#8217;t like\u200b you,\u2063 they simply can jail you, they can target you, they can try to ruin and destroy your life,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<h2>&#8216;I&#8217;m Going on Offense&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>Mr. Ogles, who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndyOgles\/status\/1654613857392836609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endorsed<\/a> President Trump&#8217;s 2024 presidential campaign earlier this year, called on \u200bthe rest of the Republican presidential candidates to suspend their campaigns \u200din support of President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would take this moment to say to \u200banyone that&#8217;s running in \u200bthe GOP primary for president, it&#8217;s\u200b time for you\u2062 to suspend your campaign and \u200dyou not hide behind Donald Trump,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got to unify here\u2063 and push back against this attack on America in the Constitution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left:0;margin-right:0;max-width:1200px\">\n<figure style=\"width:640px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media at \u2063Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport \u200dafter being booked at the Fulton County jail \u200cin Atlanta, Ga., on Aug. 24, \u20632023. (Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In addition to\u2062 facing the state-level criminal indictment in Fulton County, President Trump \u2063faces another criminal indictment in a Manhattan \u200dcourt, as well as two more indictments for federal charges, which were brought by special counsel Jack Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ogles has sponsored a bill to strip Mr. Smith&#8217;s federal funding. The bill is dubbed the &#8220;YOU\u2019RE FIRED Act,&#8221; a probable reference to President Trump&#8217;s catchphrase \u2063from when he hosted the reality\u2062 TV show &#8220;The Apprentice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Addressing his efforts\u2063 to defund Mr. Smith&#8217;s special counsel efforts, Mr. Ogles said, &#8220;I hate to make this partisan,&#8221; but he felt that Democrats have been on the attack and\u200c are \u200d&#8221;using the courts to target us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said that\u200b it does not bode well for political disputes within a society to be resolved &#8220;by way of courts and prosecutions \u200cand jail time&#8221; and \u2063that his bill might help reverse that \u2064trend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to settle this at the ballot box, not in the court,&#8221; Mr. Ogles said. &#8220;So I&#8217;m going on offense. We&#8217;ve got \u2063to get points on the board. \u2064We&#8217;ve got to\u200c take it to them. We&#8217;ve got to fight, fight back. And look, you know, I&#8217;m a nerd. I love our Founding Fathers. I love the Constitution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>too far in their attempts to humiliate President Trump,&#8221; Ogles said. He believes that these charges will only strengthen Trump&#8217;s support base and energize his followers. Ogles suggests that instead of focusing on personal attacks, Democrats should focus on policy issues to win over voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1816,"featured_media":2012679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1816"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}