Chinese retailers and Trump allies race to profit from merchandise depicting Butler rally aftermath
Images of the moment have already been splashed across the world’s front pages and papered many corners of the internet, former President Donald Trump with his ear bleeding and his right hand clenched in a fist above the Secret Service agents surrounding him after he was shot. And now they are available on T-shirts for as little as $4 on China’s e-commerce platforms. Over the weekend, Chinese retailers leaped into action on Taobao and JD.com, the country’s two biggest e-commerce platforms, to profit from the images after an assassination attempt on Trump at a rally on July 13. “Make...
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