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--:-- Georgia Howe: I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley. It's Friday, August 25th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
--:-- John Bickley: The first ever mugshot of a former U.S. president, Donald Trump's instantly iconic photo from Fulton County Jail, has predictably gone viral.
--:-- Georgia Howe: It's been repeatedly displayed by media outlets and touted by the former president himself on the platform X.
--:-- John Bickley: It's the Mona Lisa. It's incredible. And nobody will ever have a mugshot like this.
--:-- Georgia Howe: In his first tweet in the more than two years since he was banned from Twitter, Trump posted a tweet of his glaring mugshot along with the web address for his fundraising page.
--:-- John Bickley: The tweet was viewed over a million times within just a matter of hours, and merchandise featuring it was also up for sale instantly by the Trump campaign.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The former president and current leading GOP candidate was also given a number, inmate number P01135809.
--:-- John Bickley: Trump also turned heads by describing himself in the booking documents as being 6'3 and 215 pounds, a good bit lighter than the White House doctor reported back in 2018.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Also going viral are Trump's comments on the day he turned himself in.
--:-- John Bickley: When you have that great freedom to challenge, you have to be able to otherwise you going to have very dishonest elections.
--:-- Georgia Howe: What has taken place here is a travesty of justice.
--:-- John Bickley: We did nothing wrong. I did nothing wrong. And everybody knows that I never had such support.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Stay tuned for our in-depth analysis of the Fulton County case this weekend.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Several more stores have been robbed by so-called smash and grab shoplifters in Los Angeles, just days after L.A. Mayor Karen Bass announced a task force to target the retail theft rings.
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--:-- Deputy District Attorney John McKinney: We're not going to really see an impact on this behavior until the people who are doing it see some real teeth in a criminal justice system.
--:-- Georgia Howe: In order for them to be deterred, it's going to take more than a flashy press conference. They're going to have to hear and see people going to jail and even prison before calculus of whether to get involved in this behavior changes.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Sandwich chain Subway confirmed Thursday that it will be sold.
--:-- John Bickley: According to a report by The Wall Street Journal earlier this week, the Atlanta-based Rourke Capital was offering around $9.6 billion for Subway, which is privately owned.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Subway said its leadership team will remain in place.
--:-- John Bickley: Rourke is also the parent company to several other popular food chains including Arby Dunkin Jimmy John and Buffalo Wild Wings
--:-- Georgia Howe: Democratic Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina announced this week that he would veto a sweeping GOP-supported election bill, which could cause another override showdown.
--:-- John Bickley: The bill in question would end a grace period for mail-in voting.
--:-- Georgia Howe: In a video message, the governor accused Republicans of using their majority to assault the people's right to vote.
--:-- John Bickley: Unfortunately, these schemes aren't new in North Carolina, and we've stopped many of them before.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Only this time, Republicans are armed with a one-vote legislative supermajority.
--:-- John Bickley: Cooper, who cannot run for re-election in 2024 due to term limits, successfully blocked several components of the bill during past sessions.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Wireless carrier T-Mobile says it plans to cut around 5,000 jobs, or about 7% of its workforce.
--:-- John Bickley: In an email to employees Thursday, the company's CEO said the layoffs would happen over the next five weeks and impact a variety of different employees throughout the U.S.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The laid off employees will receive severance packages based on tenure.
--:-- John Bickley: The announcement comes just months after the company's CEO said the telecom sector was, quote, vibrant and healthy.
--:-- Georgia Howe: But at the same time now for the first time in our history we the network leader.
--:-- John Bickley: The layoffs at the wireless company follow a string of mass job cuts throughout the tech sector including Google and Amazon.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Layoffs have also reached outside of tech hitting Disney parks newspapers and some universities
--:-- John Bickley: A three-day summit of the BRICS countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa ended with a significant expansion.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The nations of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been added to the group, and Iran, Argentina, Egypt, and Ethiopia are scheduled to be added next year.
--:-- John Bickley: The summit included plans to move away from the U.S. dollar for trade deals.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Vladimir Putin issued a statement saying that the de-dollarization movement is already gaining momentum with the BRICS countries.
--:-- John Bickley: The Biden administration director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism may soon recommend Americans limit themselves to two drinks per week.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Dr. George Koop told Daily Mail online that he hasn't changed the guidelines yet, but is considering following Canada's lead, which changed their alcohol consumption recommendations earlier this year.
--:-- John Bickley: Koop says a new study shows significant health benefits of reducing alcohol intake.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Current recommendations are just one drink per day for women and two for men.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Cheers and happy Friday. All right, those are your drive home updates this afternoon.
--:-- John Bickley: To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And for more in-depth discussion of the biggest stories of the day, listen to the latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.
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