A Morning Read

The hightops are as shiny as the chandeliers at Mar-a-Lago.  Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Donald Trump is selling $399 gilded hightops: the “Never Surrender” sneakers. Our chief fashion critic, Vanessa Friedman, writes that the shoes are meant to mock the criminal indictments he faces, as part of a dangerous “merching of the moment.”

Lives lived: William Beecher, a Times journalist, in 1969 revealed President Richard Nixon’s secret bombing campaign over Cambodia during the Vietnam War. He died at 90.

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