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Donald Trump dines with NFT mega-collectors during secret trial break in New York
The Manhattan secret trial Former US President Donald Trump is on vacation on Wednesday, giving the leading Republican candidate in the 2024 US general election a valuable window to campaign. Today (May 8), Trump is using this window to dine with buyers of his NFTs (non-fungible tokens) at his Florida club and residence, Mar-a-Lago.
The dinner, first reported by Axiosis an advantage for the main buyers of the so-called “MugShot edition NFT”, a series of “digital trading cards” offered at $99 each, some of which feature images based on the photo ID. taken of Trump when he was arrested in Georgia in August 2023 on racketeering charges. (Other NFTs in the series, designed by illustrator Clark Mitchell, feature Trump in place of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial, Trump as a cyborg and Trump as a steampunk superhero.)
Supporters who purchased at least 47 editions of the NFTs are invited to tonight’s dinner with Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, and will receive a piece of the suit he was wearing when the photo was taken. Supporters who purchased 100 MugShot NFTs will receive additional perks, including pieces of the suit and tie Trump wore in the photo, a seat at a VIP table during the dinner, and a cocktail with Trump before the event.
The company that created the MugShot NFTs is not affiliated with the Trump campaign, although the former president has registered a video promoting NFTs and limited edition physical cards featuring fragments of his costume: “it was a great costume, believe me, a very good costume”. According to Trump’s most recent financial disclosures, he made between $100,000 and $1 million from NFTs in 2022. Trump’s campaign offered many opportunities. physical products on his own initiative by monetizing the famous photograph.
After Wednesday night’s dinner for Trump NFT mega-collectors, the former president will return to Manhattan court Thursday morning, where his lawyers will resume their cross-examination of adult film star Stormy Daniels, the star witness of the silence. -money case brought against Trump by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr. The case revolves around the repayment of secret payments to Daniels made by Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen to prevent him to tell the story of his alleged sexual relationship. with Trump in 2006 (which he denies happened).
Melania Trump, the former president’s wife, has been much more active than her husband in the NFT space, releasing several series of digital collectibles in recent years commemorating everything from 1969: Apollo 11 moon landing, American Landmarks like Mount Rushmore and the Statue of Liberty for “important moments“in the history of the United States, his own eyes And Christmas.