Donald Trump has been criminally processed four times now, culminating in the release of his Fulton County prison mugshot. Some credible political analysts see Trump’s arrests as a net benefit to his primary campaign, but fewer believe Trump’s ordeal will prove to be anything other than a drag on his political prospects in a general election against the incumbent Democratic president. That does not describe “militant activist and bank robber” Craig Scott, who insists that the former president now can lay claim to something his likely Democratic opponent cannot: “street cred.”
Scott, a beneficiary of the clemency provided to certain offenders under the 2018 First Step Act, offered this observation in a Newsweek op-ed. “Trump’s repeated run-ins with the law, and what seems like an unfair obsession with catching him and punishing him disproportionately for his so-called ‘crimes,’ reminds a lot of us of what was done to us,” the “formerly incarcerated actor, militant activist, and filmmaker” wrote. “Just ask any popular public figure how to establish ‘street cred.’ They’ll tell you: Get arrested!”
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