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It was a motorcade that recalled the highly protected trips Donald Trump took when he was the president of the United States. The streets had been cleared for his easy passage, law enforcement on motorcycles made sure he was safe, and the area where Trump was visiting was locked down hours before he arrived.
But this was no rally, no presidential speech. Trump was taking a grim trip – albeit one more luxurious than most in his position – to a notoriously run-down Fulton County jail, where he was formally put under arrest for more than a dozen charges that could land him behind bars for many years if he is convicted.
Most candidates would not want images of themselves being forced to appear at a jail and processed on racketeering charges. In an earlier era not so long ago, it would have spelled the end of a political campaign.
But for Trump, a man who spent his career slapping his name on everything from hotels to steaks and vodka, and who delighted in having his name in the New York City gossip columns, even the indignity of being treated like a common criminal wasn't enough to evoke the slightest embarrassment.
"From a bottom-line business perspective,” Trump wrote in his book "The Art of the Deal," referring to a controversy during the building of Trump Tower, “bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all.”
Trump's surrender Thursday was hardly designed to avoid publicity. The former president was given two weeks – with a deadline of noon Friday – to show up at the Fulton County jail for processing on more than a dozen charges related to a scheme to steal the presidential election in Georgia.
He could have come at any time in a 24-hour period. He chose to arrive at prime-time viewing hours, when much of the country would be home from work and able to watch his arrival on TV.
It wasn't the first time – by a long shot – that Trump has been in a legal conflict, and it wasn't even the first time he was indicted. But the former president's processing at a decrepit Fulton County jail Thursday brought him closest to being treated like a common criminal defendant.
It was a rare example of Trump not being somewhere largely on his own terms. He had a deadline to appear in person or face a warrant for his arrest. He had to endure the typical indignities of lesser-known accused criminals, including having law enforcement take a photo of one of the most recognizable faces in the country.
In his three previous indictments – two federal sets of charges and one in New York City, brought by the local district attorney – Trump has been given a lot more leeway.
He has had to appear in court but has not been forced in those three cases to go through the usual processing – although he has found reason to complain about his treatment, reportedly getting rankled when a federal judge during an arraignment in Washington addressed him as “Mr. Trump” after his lawyers introduced him as “President Trump.”
But while Trump's defenders say he is the victim of a two-tiered system of justice, the former president has still enjoyed special status – not just as a high-profile defendant but as a wealthy one, legal experts say.
Trump wasn't asked to turn in his passport or agree to a range of pre-trial demands often put on defendants (such as not using alcohol or drugs). He's not been told not to leave the state.
The former president hasn't had to endure the humiliation of the "perp walk" – where prosecutors build public support for a case by parading handcuffed defendants in a walk to the courthouse. Notably, the practice was elevated by one-time federal prosecutor Rudy Giuliani, who is now among Trump's 18 co-defendants in the Georgia case and who is free on $150,000 bond.
This booking photo provided by Fulton County Sheriff's Office, shows former President Donald Trump on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, after he surrendered and was booked at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta. Trump is accused by District Attorney Fani Willis of scheming to subvert the will of Georgia voters in a desperate bid to keep Joe Biden out of the White House. (Fulton County Sheriff's Office via AP)Uncredited
Nor has Trump been handcuffed or jailed while awaiting posting of bail, as many defendants are. And the very fact that Trump has the resources to post bond separates him from the majority of defendants, notes Russell Gold, a University of Alabama School of Law professor who is an expert on civil and criminal procedure.
"Pre-trial detention has been the place where his treatment is somewhat exceptional," says Gold, and allows him more leeway in his case. In many cases, even innocent defendants agree to plead guilty because they can't afford bail, and so agree to a plea of time served, he says. Spending time in jail, even for an innocent defendant, can cause life-changing consequences such as the loss of a job or custody of children. Detained defendants also have a harder time meeting with lawyers to prepare their cases, Gold notes.
Between 1970 and 2015, the number of people who have been detained prior to trial increased 433% – and pre-trial detainees are the larger proportion of all incarcerated individuals, according to a 2022 report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Six out of 10 defendants are behind bars before trial simply because they can't afford bail, the commission found – a problem the wealthy former president, who has raised millions for his defense, does not have.
Once at the courthouse, the Trump processing went quickly – another experience atypical for the typical defendant, says Atlanta-based attorney Chris Timmons, who was a Georgia county prosecutor for 17 years before entering private practice.
In one case, where he was defending someone in information technology, it took three hours to get him booked, Timmons said, as law enforcement searched for paperwork.
Trump has also been given more notice, and an ability to surrender on his own schedule, says Jarrett Wolf, a former prosecutor and former Drug Enforcement Agency special agent now in private legal practice in Miami. "He wasn't arrested at 6 in the morning," as is often done with people charged with crimes, Wolf says.
The former president also knew about the investigations of his behavior and was given a heads-up that charges were coming.
"It's unusual to have a warning that the government is investigating you," Gold says.
Trump's legal team has cited the massive trove of documents handed over to them as a reason to delay the federal trial on charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection until April 2026. But it's unusual for a defendant to be given papers and evidence by the prosecution at such an early stage, Gold says – another advantage Trump has over typical defendants.
Trump, however, isn't acting like a typical defendant, either. Instead of trying to keep his legal problems private – or walking into a courthouse or jail with his jacket pulled over his face – the former president is reveling in the attention, which riles up his political base and feeds his contention that he is being persecuted for political reasons.
"I think there is a sort of political logic in his mind here, the argument that he is being targeted by the liberal state," says David Hopkins, a political science professor at Boston College. "So I think rather than act like he is ashamed of it – which I don't think he is, anyway – the strategy is to court the attention and to frame yourself as if the attacks you are experiencing are symbolic of the attacks on your supporters."
That approach seems to be working for the former president, so far: A Des Moines Register/NBC poll this week found that support for Trump among Iowa Republicans hardened after the Georgia indictments. Before the Fulton County charges, 55% of Iowa Republicans favored or were “actively considering Trump." After the fourth indictment, that number went up to 67%, the poll found.
Next year, however, political rhetoric may become legal reality for Trump, who could face several trials during his campaign for president. With a daunting campaign schedule competing with court appearances, the former president may find that there is, indeed, such a thing as bad publicity.
。 45亿美元，这是2026年8月21日深夜森林狼和山猫两支球队捆绑转让的估值。5年前洛尔和罗德里格斯从泰勒手里接盘时，价格还停在15亿。5年翻三倍，这笔钱在NBA历史收购榜上排第四，前面只有湖人125亿、湖人早前100亿、凯尔特人61亿。
就在这45亿易主的消息炸开的同时，独行侠官宣与克莱·汤普森达成买断，这位四冠射手主动放弃最后一年1746万美元的大合同，澄清期过后要去迈阿密拿一份2年约1300万的中产合约。与此同时，费城76人把独行侠的三冠助教菲尔·汉迪挖进了教练组。
一夜之间，NBA的钱、人、脑同时换了手。马克·斯塔德这个名字，硅谷圈之外的人可能有点陌生。他是Dragoneer Investment Group的创始人，这家公司管理着超过350亿美元的资本，投过OpenAI、Uber、DoorDash。斯塔德之前本来就是森林狼所有权集团里的重要小股东，花了数月时间谈判，最终从马克·洛尔手里买下了大部分股份。
洛尔为啥卖？ 他要忙着把自己搞的食品科技公司Wonder Group推上市。据多位消息人士透露，洛尔甚至拒绝了外部更高的报价，刻意把股权留给原本就在股东团队里的斯塔德，为的就是保持股东团队的连续性。
二 | 这笔交易真正的治理花样在后面： 斯塔德成为控股大股东，妻子埃莉萨·斯塔德将担任森林狼董事会成员（governor） 罗德里格斯选择增持，继续留在管理层，继续当球队面向公众的门面 洛尔保留少数股权，退到幕后 球队总裁康纳利、主帅芬奇全部留任 森林狼队记Jon Krawczynski跟进确认：新老板斯塔德完全赞同洛尔和罗德里格斯的立场，球队不会搬迁，并将全力支持在明尼苏达建造新球馆。 交易还要等9月15日至16日的NBA董事会会议批准才算正式生效。把估值顶到45亿的底层逻辑其实很硬：森林狼连续5年打进季后赛，2024和2025年两次闯进西部决赛。这种班底，没人会去动。 36岁的克莱，在独行侠过得并不顺心。上赛季他出战69场，场均21.7分钟拿到11.7分，三分命中率38.3%。数据还在，但独行侠只拿了26胜56负，西部倒数第二。 独行侠一开始根本不想买断，他们更希望通过交易换回点筹码。是克莱主动找上管理层，明确表示"我想去一支能争冠的球队"。
三 | 买断成了唯一可行的途径。 克莱原合同剩下1年1746万美元，热火手里捏着大约890万美元的中产特例。按Shams的说法，双方谈妥的是2年约1300万，平均年薪接近650万美元，第二年带球员选项。 也就是说，克莱必须先放下"1746万"这个数字，才能让交易成立。他在买断里放弃的薪水，到热火领的新合同能大致补回来一部分，但差额是要自己吃下的。
四 | 热火为啥这么执着？ 整个休赛期，热火把克莱当作头号目标，这也是他们没动用中产特例去追布拉德利·比尔或德罗赞的原因。
五 | 6月那笔9换2的史诗交易，热火送出希罗、韦尔、哈克斯加3个首轮签，从雄鹿换来字母哥和波蒂斯。帕特·莱利多次强调，提升外线投射是球队首要任务，目的是为字母哥和阿德巴约拉开进攻空间。
六 | 克莱一来，热火潜在首发就是戴维恩·米切尔、克莱、维金斯、字母哥、阿德巴约。米切尔三分38.4%，克莱38.3%，维金斯40.6%，三个能投的侧翼围着字母哥和阿德巴约转，这是热火梦寐以求的进攻空间。主帅斯波尔斯特拉正在克莱、小蒂姆·哈达威与佩勒·拉松三人之中考察首发人选，克莱是首发的最热门人选。
七 | 菲尔·汉迪这个名字，普通球迷可能不如球员那么熟悉，但在NBA教练圈，他就是行走的冠军保险。
八 | 据名记Marc J. Spears报道，独行侠助教汉迪将加盟76人，担任主帅纳斯的助理教练。汉迪从2011年开始在NBA担任助教，先后效力于湖人、骑士、猛龙和独行侠。 他的冠军柜里有3枚戒指： 2016年，以骑士助教身份随詹姆斯夺冠 2019年，以猛龙助教身份随纳斯夺冠 2020年，以湖人助教身份再次随詹姆斯夺冠 2015至2020年，汉迪连续6个赛季助队打进总决赛。 来到76人之后，他将与刚刚加盟球队的詹姆斯第三次共事，也将与纳斯在猛龙之后第二次合作。一个54岁、拿过3枚总冠军戒指、被科比和詹姆斯都尊称为"教练"的人，就这样空降费城。 76人这个休赛期的操作逻辑已经很清楚了：詹姆斯空降费城，汉迪跟着就来，纳斯身边多了个老搭档。
九 | 冠军DNA不是喊出来的，是把有过夺冠经验的人一个个请进来凑出来的。
十 | 一夜三爆，表面看是三条独立新闻，底子是同一件事：NBA的资源正在以惊人的速度向"争冠状态"聚集。 资本层面，45亿进场的是管着350亿以上的硅谷私募，球队越来越像受长周期回报约束的资产配置，而不是老板的个人招牌。球员层面，克莱宁可扔掉几百万也要换一个争冠名额，老将买断挑队正在变成一种新范式。
十一 | 教练层面，汉迪这种三冠助教追着詹姆斯跑，冠军经验本身就是硬通货。 可问题也随之而来：当克莱这种级别的射手，需要用"放弃1746万里的差额"来换取加盟热火的资格时，这到底是一位四冠老将的聪明抉择，还是巨星黄昏时代的一种无奈妥协？ 如果买断机制被越来越多的老将效仿，那些还在顶薪合同里、球队却在摆烂的球星们，会不会也走上同一条路？。
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