Trump's mug shot released by Fulton County Sheriff's Office - ABCNL

we just received the former president's mugshot we want to show that to you here in just a moment as we get that set up for you let's bring in John santui John do we think the former president will weaponize this image to help him with fundraising you mentioned this earlier but to what point and will it work in gaining support for his 2024 campaign uh Stephanie I'm going to throw it back to you because I see what we have on screen right now yes we do we have the mugshot there is the former president's mugshot taken at the fton county jail earlier this evening as he was indicted for the fourth time there in Georgia right now the former president is in the air on his private plane heading back to Newark Liberty International Airport but that is his mugshot taken today at the fton county jail John let's talk about this mugshot and how his team may possibly use this to fundraise and and here's the bigger question will it even work well actually Stephanie I'm going to take that in a bit of a different direction because as you well know I've covered Donald Trump for ABC news for nearly a decade and that image seeing Donald Trump to the obvious viewer Donald Trump is very clearly angry but when I saw the image just a couple moments ago it reminded me of Donald Trump's book cover that he released in 2015 the book was titled I believe crippled America and I remember saying to Trump after seeing the cover I said Gee you know you you you really look angry and they said well they told me to Arch my brows to look angry just to stare down the camera that's that Donald Trump that we see right now and that's not Donald Trump posing for a book cover that is Donald Trump legitimately angry about where he is right now and feeds in Stephanie to everything I have been hearing in the last couple days that Donald Trump has been raging about this indictment raging against da fonny Willis raging about what could possibly happen because as we know these are severe charges and many other people as we've been reporting here on ABC concerned about what will happen because of the so many people indicted with him and as one Aid said to me if one flips against us we have a gigantic problem but to go back to your question earlier about what he's going to do with it copy paste print they're going to put this on every possible campaign t-shirt hat any mug you name it um I would wait for the moments until a fundraising email comes out with this mug shot and the one thing that we do need to recognize there's Donald Trump bravado that everybody sees and there's Donald Trump personal people you don't see obviously we all have that right our public face our private face though Donald Trump is going to go out there and say look at this can you believe it not a bad shot Etc this is not a photo that Donald Trump personally is loving right now Stephanie so you don't think this was an intentional pose because when we look at the other mug shots John I'm sure you've seen the other ones of the other codefendants some are smiling some are neutral this this seems I mean you could see that he's he's angry but do you think this was somewhat intentional given the fact that he may use this photo in uh on products as he moves toward in his uh campaign you know I I try to get in Donald Trump's head that is a dark art I I definitely do try to do it that's what I'm paid to do most times here at ABC but you know Donald Trump has definitely been angry about it for sure but I don't think Donald Trump was standing there saying is this going to look good on a t-shirt I think Donald Trump is standing there saying get me out of here I don't want to be here I don't want to do this right now so I think that is more of what's Weighing on Donald Trump tonight Stephy than anything else well John thank you so much for your insights and for joining us this evening hi everyone George Stephanopoulos here thanks for checking out the ABC News YouTube channel if you'd like to get more videos show highlights and watch live event coverage click on the right over here to subscribe to our Channel and don't forget to download the ABC News app for breaking news alerts thanks for watching