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Showing Original Post only (View all)She Took the White House Photos. Trump Moved to Take the Profit. [View all]
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Keith Boykin
@keithboykin
Official White House photographers since Reagan have published their own books.
But when Trumps photographer, Shealah Craighead, tried to publish her book, Trump tried to get a cut of the money, asked her to hold off, and stole the pics for his own book.
Shealah Craighead served as President Donald J. Trumps official White House photographer.
nytimes.com
She Took the White House Photos. Trump Moved to Take the Profit.
The former chief White House photographer made plans to publish a book of Trump photos. The former president had other plans.
1:41 PM · Mar 31, 2022
Keith Boykin
@keithboykin
Official White House photographers since Reagan have published their own books.
But when Trumps photographer, Shealah Craighead, tried to publish her book, Trump tried to get a cut of the money, asked her to hold off, and stole the pics for his own book.
Shealah Craighead served as President Donald J. Trumps official White House photographer.
nytimes.com
She Took the White House Photos. Trump Moved to Take the Profit.
The former chief White House photographer made plans to publish a book of Trump photos. The former president had other plans.
1:41 PM · Mar 31, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/us/politics/trump-photographer-shealah-craighead.html
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WASHINGTON As President Donald J. Trumps tenure came to an end, the chief White House photographer, who had traveled the world with him and spent countless hours inside the White House snapping pictures, notified Mr. Trumps aides that she intended to publish a book collecting some of her most memorable images.
This was hardly a radical idea: Official photographers from every White House since President Ronald Reagans have published their own books. Barack Obama and George W. Bush were so supportive that they wrote forewords for them.
But like so much else involving Mr. Trump, the plan by his chief photographer, Shealah Craighead, did not follow this bipartisan norm.
First, aides to Mr. Trump asked her for a cut of her book advance payment, in exchange for his writing a foreword and helping promote the book, according to former associates of Mr. Trump.
Then Mr. Trumps team asked Ms. Craighead to hold off on her book project to allow the former president to take Ms. Craigheads photos and those of other White House staff photographers and publish his own book, which is now selling for as much as $230 a copy.
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14 million dead from C-19, a war in Ukraine, a stolen election, Ivanka walking w/$460 million, ...
Botany
Mar 2022
#23
I just knew he was ripping off the photographer. First thing I thought of when I saw the book
Walleye
Mar 2022
#14
A photographer OWNS their own images. There are copyright laws in play here.
Ferrets are Cool
Mar 2022
#15
She should publish a book of the most humiliating pictures she has of the orange orangutan
world wide wally
Mar 2022
#45
Fish gotta swim. Bird gotta fly. Trump gotta do the biggest dick move possibly imaginable.
LaMouffette
Mar 2022
#47