WEEK 428 / 428 — The Mugshot
WEDNESDAY NIGHT: EIGHT RIVALS DEBATE IN MILWAUKEE. HIS ANSWER IS A TAPED INTERVIEW, AIRED ON THE PLATFORM THAT ONCE BANNED HIM.
“MY INTERVIEW WITH TUCKER CARLSON WILL BE AIRED TONIGHT AT 9:00 P.M. “SPARKS WILL FLY.” ENJOY!”
THURSDAY. HE HAS POSTED HIS OWN ARREST TIME, LIKE A SHOWTIME: SEVEN-THIRTY IN THE EVENING.
231,000,000 Views, and still counting. The Biggest Video on Social Media, EVER, more than double the Super Bowl! But please excuse me, I have to start getting ready to head down to Atlanta, Georgia…
THE FOURTH SURRENDER OF THE YEAR ROLLS THROUGH ATLANTA AT DUSK, TOWARD THE OLD JAIL ON RICE STREET.
NEW YORK DECLINED. WASHINGTON DECLINED, TWICE. MIAMI DECLINED. GEORGIA DOES NOT DECLINE.
SEVEN THIRTY-FOUR P.M., FULTON COUNTY JAIL. HEIGHT. WEIGHT. INMATE NUMBER P01135809.
THE STATE TAKES ITS PORTRAIT.
BEFORE MIDNIGHT THE PORTRAIT IS EVERYWHERE. AND ON THE BIRD SITE, THE ACCOUNT THAT DIED IN THE BAN'S WINTER SPEAKS ONCE — POSTING THE PHOTOGRAPH, WITH A VOW NEVER TO SURRENDER.
(I LOVE TRUTH SOCIAL. IT IS MY HOME!!!)
THE HUNT WANTED A CRIMINAL'S PICTURE. IT GOT A CAMPAIGN POSTER. VOLUME 6 CLOSES.
TO BE CONTINUED…
This week in the saga
Debate night passes without him — eight rivals in Milwaukee against a taped interview on the platform that once banned him. Thursday he counts the views, then excuses himself to get ready for his own arrest. The fourth surrender of the year rolls through Atlanta at dusk to the old jail on Rice Street, where the courts that declined a photograph run out: height, weight, inmate number P01135809, the glare into the lens. Before midnight the portrait is everywhere — and the account that died in the ban's winter speaks once, posting the photograph with a vow never to surrender. The hunt wanted a criminal's picture. It got a campaign poster.
Readers' Corner
Letters from the readership on Week 428. Pick a pen name — no account needed.
Opening the mailbag…