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While many on the left are celebrating the fact that former President Donald Trump has been arrested four times and finally had a mugshot taken and released on Thursday by Fulton County, Ga., authorities, Fox News host Jesse Watters marveled at it for a different reason.
During Friday’s episode of “The Five,” the co-host praised Trump for his somber demeanor and pointed out that Democrats were helping to turn him into a political “martyr.”
Then he went on to remark about Trump’s “hard” look in his mugshot.
“And I am now going to book the Fulton County photographer for my Christmas card,” Watters told co-host Jeanine Pirro. “Because Judge and I say this with an unblemished record of heterosexuality. He looks good, and he looks hard.”
Watters’ remark about his “unblemished record of heterosexuality” appears to be a reference to the popular sitcom television series “Seinfeld,” when the character George Costanza handed a compliment to Jerry Seinfeld.
“The Democrats have overplayed their hand. They’ve done something that no one else has ever been able to do, and that’s make Trump a sympathetic character,” Watters added, according to Mediaite. “They’ve made him a martyr. And now I want to get arrested because I definitely need some sympathy.”
Biden gave his reaction to Trump’s mugshot as a crowd gave their response to him.
The president and his family were on another vacation, this time in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, when he was approached by reporters who asked him about it.
“Have you seen Donald Trump’s mugshot yet? a reporter asked the president.
“I did see it on television,” the president said with a grin as onlookers booed him. “Handsome guy. Wonderful guy.”
Others could be heard shouting at the president, “We don’t want you here!”
Trump, the current 2024 Republican front-runner, told Fox News in an interview after he was booked and processed by Fulton County authorities that providing a mugshot was “not a comfortable feeling—especially when you’ve done nothing wrong.”
Trump turned himself in Thursday night at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia, after being charged in District Attorney Fani Willis’ investigation into his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state, Fox News reported.
“They insisted on a mugshot and I agreed to do that,” he said. “This is the only time I’ve ever taken a mugshot. It is not a comfortable feeling — especially when you’ve done nothing wrong.”
“This is all about election interference,” Trump said. “It all comes through Washington and the DOJ and Crooked Joe Biden — nothing like this has ever happened in our country before.”
Trump said the United States is “doing horribly, but now, it is doing worse because we have become a Third World country.”
Trump’s bail was set at $200,000, and he was quickly processed and released Thursday evening.
His formal arraignment, where he will likely plead not guilty, is expected to take place in early September.
Trump was charged with one count of violating the Georgia RICO Act as well as six counts of criminal conspiracy, three counts of criminal solicitation, one count of filing false documents, and two counts of making false statements.
Trump, his former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, his former attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro, Jeff Clark, and John Eastman, among others, were all charged as part of the Fulton County investigation.
Willis requested on Thursday that the trial date for Trump and his 18 co-defendants in the case be set for October 23. The action was taken in response to the defendant Kenneth Chesebro’s motion for a speedy trial.
Due to the fact that Chesebro was the only defendant to request a speedy trial, the judge only approved the October 23 trial date for him.
