The price of nonfungible tokens (NFTs) featuring Donald Trump surged after news outlets released a photo of the former United States president as part of his criminal case in the state of Georgia for allegedly attempting to subvert the will of voters in the 2020 election.
According to data from NFT marketplace OpenSea, the floor price of Trump’s line of digital trading cards first released in December 2022 increased more than 62% from 0.138 to 0.224 Ether (ETH) on Aug. 24, shortly after the former president’s mugshot became public. The image, which shows Trump looking angrily at the camera amid his surrender at the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, has gone viral as the first mugshot of a current or former U.S. president facing criminal charges.
Trump, who has largely restricted his social media activity to his own Truth Social platform since being banned from X (then called Twitter) in January 2021 — and later reinstated by X CEO Elon Musk — posted to the platform for the first time in more than two years with the mugshot.
https://t.co/MlIKklPSJT pic.twitter.com/Mcbf2xozsY
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2023
The criminal case against Trump in the state of Georgia alleges the former president and 18 allies were part of a racketeering scheme aimed at subverting the will of voters in an attempt to ensure he was re-elected as U.S. president in 2020, despite having lost to Joe Biden. The indictment was made public on Aug. 14, and prosecutors ordered all involved parties to surrender to Georgia authorities before Aug. 25.
Trump appeared on Aug. 24 and was released on a $200,000 bond. However, he still faces federal charges in the District of Columbia for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election by allegedly being part of a scheme involving fake electors. He has also been indicted in a classified documents case brought by the Justice Department and a New York criminal case for allegedly falsifying business records related to a hush money payment for porn star Stormy…
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