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‘I’m Voting for the Felon’: 20-year-old Trump delegate from Colorado sells T-shirts to finance RNC trip

Weston Imer, the youngest delegate from Colorado to this year’s Republican National Convention, is financing his trip to Milwaukee, in part, by hawking T-shirts that celebrate former President Donald Trump’s conviction on felony charges.

“I’m Voting for the Felon,” reads the slogan on an assortment of T-shirts the 20-year-old political operative created and offered for sale online this week, for $30 a pop — or $37, including shipping and handling.

“I’ve been very pleased with the success of of it so far,” Imer told Colorado Politics on Friday, noting that he’d already received orders for 50 shirts and raised nearly $1,300, less than 24 hours after unveiling the apparel on WinRed, a fundraising platform popular with Republicans.

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Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, was convicted last week by a New York jury on 34 felony charges stemming from an effort to influence the 2016 election by falsifying business records related to hush-money payments to cover up an affair with a porn star. Trump, the first former U.S. president to be convicted on criminal charges, denied the allegations and says he will appeal after he’s sentenced in July.

Trump is facing another 54 felony charges in three other cases and has pleaded not guilty in each. The cases, which have yet to go to trial pending court rulings, involve allegations Trump tried to prevent the transfer of power after the 2020 election, mishandled classified documents after leaving the White House and schemed to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia.

“We all know that these charges were fabricated by the New York DA’s office and were elevated from misdemeanors to felonies just to ‘Get Trump,'” Imer said in a text message.

“Yet now they have made President Trump a martyr to the America First cause,” he added, “and it will be my honor to vote for him in the first presidential election that I will cast a vote in.”

Before that happens, Imer will have the chance to vote for Trump as a Colorado delegate to this summer’s RNC, where the former president is expected to win the GOP nomination for the third time.

Imer said he saw a shirt with a similar message on TikTok recently, inspiring him to design his own version to raise funds for his convention visit.

He stands to net about $8 per T-shirt sold, Imer said, though purchasers have an option to donate additional funds to help cover travel expenses he’s estimated at roughly $5,000 for the two weeks he’ll be at the RNC in July.

As a member of the Republican National Committee’s Youth Advisory Council, Imer has to head to Milwaukee about a week before the convention kicks off for party business, he said.

No stranger to Trump World, Imer cut his political teeth supporting the Republican in 2016, before he was even officially a teenager — from singing the national anthem at Trump rallies to co-chairing the Trump campaign’s Jefferson County office — alongside his mother, Laurel Imer — at age 12.

Imer said he wasn’t concerned about an edict issued last week by the Trump campaign forbidding candidates and party committees from using Trump’s convictions to raise money.

“I haven’t heard from Trump campaign,” Imer said. “As far as I know, it does not apply to me.”

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