I think the Jack Smith part was a curveball he never saw coming. We have to remember, Meadows stayed on the Trump train when the smart move would be to jump off, ala Bill Barr. He probably expected Trump to smolder and burn out, but the Mara Lago Classified documents scandal fanned the flames and suddenly his book of lies becomes a major problem when he needs his credibility.

The problem for all of Trumps hangers on is a lack of vision. None of them can see the obvious outcome of present circumstances.

 

What with all pretense ended concerning Judge Engoron's "impartiality" in Trump's New York tax case we aren't surprised that the media hounds would turn to judge Cannon and declare that she is showing favoritism towards Trump.

What surprises us is the topic they've chosen.
Discovery.
Huh.

You see, discovery is fundamental to our legal system. Essentially, the government prosecutors have not only a legal, but a moral and ethical obligation to make sure the defense has ALL of the evidence and facts collected in a case.
All of it.
And there are simply no exceptions of note.
If the prosecution has it, has access to it, or knows of it, they must share it with the defense.
And Attorneys have this pounded into them from early on in their legal education.
Probably more than cops have the Miranda warning and it's import driven into them from early on.

Now for reasons only Smith understands, the prosecution in Florida has been resisting it's responsibility for discovery in Trump's case.
Even documents listed in the indictment that, you know, are fundamental to the case and have been in Smith's possession since day one of the investigation.

And he hasn't been forthcoming in making sure the defense has easy access to what has been released.
You see, many of the documents (by most accounts there are over 1.5 MILLION pages) are classified as SECRET or TOP SECRET and can't just be handed out. They can only be viewed in a SCIF room. A Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility. See, the documents are kept in this SCIF room and can only be viewed in that room, never to be removed. Can't take photos, in fact, can't take anything electronic into the room and only people with proper clearances can even get near such a room. So to handle this a special SCIF room has been created somewhere in Miami.

But we also need to note that there is a SCIF facility at Mir a Lago.
Didn't know that, did you?

But Smith has also said there are about 125 pages of "super secret' documents, so secret that even a SCIF isn't sufficient to protect them. And it's pretty much these documents that are at issue.

And Cannon has been pretty blunt with Smith on the topic; Trump and his legal team has an absolute right to see those documents.
Duh.
But the media has locked on this issue to claim that Cannon is exhibiting favoritism towards Trump.
No.
Thank God the judge understands the import of discovery and isn't letting the government erode it.
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Judge Aileen Cannon’s Pro-Trump Bias Exposed (msn.com)

State Of The Union
Judge Aileen Cannon’s Pro-Trump Bias Exposed
Story by Andrew Rodriguez • 14h

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, the federal judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s election interference case, has rejected another attempt by prosecutors to deny him access to evidence.

“The court, ‘upon a sufficient showing,’ [may] authorize the United States to delete specified items of classified information from documents to be made available to the defendant through discovery,” Cannon wrote.

The judge criticized the prosecutors’ interpretation of the Classified Information Procedures Act as “broad and unconvincing.”

The judge did, however, leave room for the prosecutors to restrict access to documents on an individual basis.

The case involves charges under the Espionage Act regarding the mishandling of classified documents.

Other unresolved matters include the start date of the trial, with the defense requesting more time to review evidence. (Trending: It’s Time For Donald Trump To Drop Out)

“I’m just having a hard time seeing how realistically this work can be accomplished in this compressed period of time, given the realities that we’re facing,” the judge stated during the hearing.

Some court observers believe a significant portion of the case should be dismissed.

 

Woodward said that title could be a double entendre. He thought if would be a good title for the book but then admitted Trump scares the living fuck out of him

 

We survived four years of that grifter. I am not sure that we can survive another four. He will spend his time getting revenge on the people who caused him problems. The rich will get richer. Lives for the poorly educated MAGA fanatics Trump pretends to love will not get better, but they will not care, because all the people they hate will experiences some real suffering.

 

Betcha.
Those "poorly educated MAGA fanatics" got better under trump than they had for 80 years of washington politics.
And so did the minorities and women that despicables have been taking advantage of for 100 years.

Revenge? Isn't that what despicables have been doing on trump since 2016? You know, through the FBI and DOJ et al?

What we can't afford is any more years of bidenomics.
$33 TRILLION and counting.

 

Biden did not cut taxes for the rich like Trump did. Biden's fault was in not raising taxes for the rich.

 

Bidens fault is a spending spree that promises to bankrupt America.
This inflation is driven by government spending.
We cannot afford much more of bidenomics.

 

• Better American Media
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What Happened to the Price of Eggs?
Updated: Oct 18

The price of a dozen eggs is back under $2. What happened to all the buzz?

For most of 2022 and early 2023 all you could read about was the increasing price of eggs. And with good reason, they were expensive.

But as of October 2023, a dozen eggs cost about $1.77 at Walmart, a decrease of over 66%. So what happened to all the buzz about eggs? And why are they so cheap now?



The temporary price spike of eggs in the United States was due to a number of factors.

The Bird Flu Outbreak

The bird flu outbreak is a highly contagious disease that can kill poultry such as chickens and turkeys. In 2022, the United States experienced its worst bird flu outbreak on record. Over 50 million birds were lost to the outbreak, including millions of egg-laying hens. The loss of these hens reduced the supply of eggs, which drove up prices.

Inflation

Inflation in the United States was at a 40-year high in 2022. This was due to a number of factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. This increased the cost of producing and distributing eggs, which also contributed to the price spike.

Today, Inflation is at %3.67, less than half what it was at its height in 2022.

Supply Chain Disruptions

Supply chain disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine made it more difficult and expensive to transport eggs from farms to grocery stores.

The drop in egg prices is a clear sign that the economy is getting back on track, and it's perfect timing with the holiday season just around the corner. So prepare yourself for all the baking and family breakfasts you heart desires.

https://www.betteramericanmedia.org...MI7JHAwZ6vggMViUlyCh1slgqSEAAYAyAAEgKYUfD_BwE

 

The Truth About Inflation, by Robert Reich

Everybody’s ignoring the deeper structural reason for price increases: the concentration of the American economy into the hands of a few corporate giants with the power to raise prices.

If the market were actually competitive, corporations would keep their prices as low as possible as they competed for customers.

Even if some of their costs increased, they would do everything they could to avoid passing them on to consumers in the form of higher prices, for fear of losing business to competitors.

But that’s the opposite of what we’re seeing.

Corporations are raising prices even as they rake in record profits.

Corporate profit margins hit record highs last year.

You see, these corporations have so much market power they can raise prices with impunity.

So the underlying problem isn’t inflation per se. It's a lack of competition. Corporations are using the excuse of inflation to raise prices and make fatter profits.

Take the energy sector.

Only a few entities have access to the land and pipelines that control the oil and gas powering most of the world.

They took a hit during the pandemic as most people stayed home.

But they are more than making up for it now, limiting supply and ratcheting up prices.

Warren: “Chevron, Exxon have doubled their profits. This isn’t about inflation. This is about price gouging.”

Or look at consumer goods.

In April 2021, Procter & Gamble raised prices on staples like diapers and toilet paper, citing increased costs in raw materials and transportation.

But P&G has been making huge profits.

After some of its price increases went into effect, it reported an almost 25% profit margin.

Looking to buy your diapers elsewhere? Good luck.

The market is dominated by P&G and Kimberly-Clark, which—NOT entirely coincidentally—raised its prices at the same time.

Another example: in April 2021, PepsiCo raised prices, blaming higher costs for ingredients, freight, and labor.

It then recorded $3 billion in operating profits through September. How did it get away with this without losing customers?

Pepsi has only one major competitor, Coca-Cola, which promptly raised its own prices.

Coca-Cola recorded $10 billion in revenues in the third quarter of 2021, up 16% from the previous year.

Food prices are soaring, but half of that is from meat, which costs 15% more than last year. There are only four major meat processing companies in America, which are all raising their prices and enjoying record profits.

Get the picture?

The underlying problem is not inflation. It’s corporate power.

Since the 1980s, when the U.S. government all but abandoned antitrust enforcement, American industries have become more concentrated.

Most are now dominated by a handful of corporations that coordinate prices and production. This is true of: banks, broadband, pharmaceutical companies, airlines, meatpackers, and yes, soda.

Corporations in all these industries could easily absorb higher costs — including long overdue wage increases — without passing them on to consumers in the form of higher prices. But they aren’t.

Instead, they’re using their massive profits to line the pockets of major investors and executives – while both consumers and workers get shafted.

How can this structural problem be fixed? Fighting corporate concentration with more aggressive antitrust enforcement.

Biden has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate oil companies, and he’s appointed experienced antitrust lawyers to both the FTC and the Justice Department.

So don’t fall for Republicans’ fear mongering about inflation. The real culprit here is corporate power.

https://www.inequalitymedia.org/the...MIrdqY3J-vggMVyO_ICh014gjAEAAYASAAEgI1KPD_BwE

 

More liberal excuses.
Fail.

Isn't it amazing?
One of Biden's first acts as president was to shut down a major pipeline and start restricting our ability to produce our own fuels.
But it's corporate America's fault that fuel production is now lower than before he took office, and more expensive.

And the same with food and many other products. Inflation has nothing to do with a government spending spree unchecked for two years and everything to do with fat cat corporate greed.

But why would we expect any different bullshit from someone like Robert Reich?

Figures never lie, but liars figure.

 

Only a few entities have access to the land and pipelines that control the oil and gas powering most of the world.

They took a hit during the pandemic as most people stayed home.

But they are more than making up for it now, limiting supply and ratcheting up prices.

 

‘Laughing Stock’: Read the Scathing Private Email Romney Wrote About Trump’s Performance as President
Aidan McLaughlinNov 6th, 2023, 11:42 am
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Mitt Romney went from the standard-bearer of the Republican Party when he won its nomination for president in 2012 to a pariah when he was elected to the Senate as one of the few Republicans in Washington who publicly opposed then-president Donald Trump. A fascinating new biography of the Utah senator by McKay Coppins, Romney: A Reckoning, tracks that shift.

The book, which is based on extensive conversations between Romney and Coppins as well as a trove of Romney’s private journal writings and communications, offers a stunning view of Romney’s private thoughts as he grappled with the rise of Trump and his complete takeover of the Republican Party.

By the time Romney arrived in Washington D.C. as a newly-elected senator in 2018, he found himself appalled by Trump’s conduct as president. The start of his presidency was chaotic, and after the midterm elections Romney saw it as getting worse: Trump erratically fired his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, for appointing a special counsel to handle the Russia probe; Trump defied the pleas to Pentagon officials to pardon army officers who had been convicted of horrific war crimes; Trump routinely trashed U.S. allies and promoted authoritarians.


Still, Romney was reluctant to publicly speak out against the president. “He saw no reason to exacerbate tensions with the White House before he was even sworn in, nor was he eager to start alienating his soon-to-be colleagues in the Republican caucus,” Coppins writes.

He remained quiet, confining his frustrations with Trump to emails with advisers and his own journal. “I’m finding it hard to stay silent as T becomes increasingly unhinged,” he wrote in one email to advisers.

Then: Trump abruptly announced the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria; Defense Secretary James Mattis, one of the “adults in the room”, resigned the next day; Trump shut down the government over a demand for border wall funding, “sending thousands of workers home without paychecks just before the [Christmas] holiday.”


Christmas eve, a little after 11 p.m., Romney sent a furious email to his advisers with the subject line: “I’m no prophet.”

The email read:

He was the last person I wanted as the Republican nominee. I made that clear. After he won the nomination, I watched his campaign to see if he might surprise me. He did not. When he won, I hoped he would rise to the occasion. His call for me to potentially serve at State fueled that hope—after all, I had been a very vocal detractor.

Unfortunately, President Trump did not grow to match the office. His smallness has instead diminished it. The American President has long served as a model for the nation; few would imagine holding Donald Trump up for their children to emulate. Around the world, he, and to some degree the nation that elected him, have become a laughing stock. His poverty of character has been exposed so often and in so many ways that many here have become inured to it. Not so for those who watch him from abroad.

I was asked repeatedly to apologize for what I said about Donald Trump, to say that having spent more time with him, I had learned that I was wrong. I demurred. But in truth, I did not imagine that he would be so tragic as president. The incessant lying, the adulterer payoffs, the unwillingness to study and deliberate, the weakening of alliances, the elevation of autocrats, the impetuous decision, the demonizing of others, the divisiveness, the inability to hire and retain people of accomplishment — these are as stunning to me as they are to others. I did not think he would be this bad.

Coppins describes the email as a cathartic endeavor for Romney, the experience akin to “exorcising a demon.” But Romney did not stop there. He decided to write an op-ed decrying Trump’s failures as commander-in-chief. “The president shapes the public character of the nation. Trump’s character falls short,” was published in the Washington Post on Jan. 1, 2019, days before Romney was sworn in as a senator.

The piece, Coppins writes, “was not as scathing as his Christmas Eve missive. His new staff had steered him toward a more stately, senatorial tone.”

Still, it prompted a wave of vitriol from Trump and his supporters. That acrimony — as well as Romney’s unpopular standing among his Republican colleagues in the senate — did not abate as he remained a vocal critic of Trump throughout his presidency, which boasted two impeachments (Romney voted to convict both times) and an attempt to overturn the 2020 election that ended in a violent riot at the Capitol.


https://www.mediaite.com/politics/l...-wrote-about-trumps-performance-as-president/

 

ANOTHER deplorable tell all book??
Who reads these things?

See, we get that they have to cash in somehow and we get that book editors and agents have a lot of control over material that goes into these things, but seriously, who reads them?

 

Most te books on this thread turned out to be best sellers.



Furious Trump heaped scorn on own lawyer over trial date, book says
Ed Pilkington
Tue, November 7, 2023 at 9:30 AM MST·4 min read
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The extent of Donalt Trump’s frustrations over the timing of his multiple scheduled court appearances in the thick of the 2024 presidential race, as well as the disdain with which he treats his own lawyers, is laid bare in a new book by Jonathan Karl
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The Washington correspondent for ABC News reveals Trump’s furious reaction when told by a Manhattan judge earlier this year that his criminal trial in the Stormy Daniels hush-money case would start on 25 March 2024. That places it right in the middle of the Republican primaries, and just 20 days before the all-important Super Tuesday in which 15 states decide their preferred candidate.

Karl relates in his new book, Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party, how the former president responded angrily as he heard the date virtually as he sat in his Florida home, Mar-a-Lago.



Todd Blanche. Photograph: Yuki Iwamura/AP

He turned to one of his key lawyers, Todd Blanche, and yelled: “That’s in the middle of the primaries! If I lose the presidency, you are going to be the reason!”

Trump’s tantrum lasted almost half an hour, Karl reports, based on an anonymous source present in the room. When the court hearing was over, and the cameras were turned off, the former president launched what Karl describes as “a withering attack on perhaps the most highly regarded lawyer on Trump’s troubled legal team”.

“You little fucker!” Trump shouted in Blanche’s face. “You are going to cost me the presidency!” He went on to rant against other lawyers in his team, saying: “They want me to be indicted!”

Tired of Winning is the third of a series of Trump books by Karl. The previous volumes – Front Row at the Trump Show and Betrayal – have both been bestsellers.

The latest book will go on sale in the US on 14 November. The Guardian obtained a copy.

Karl’s book lands in a week in which the highs and lows of Trump’s current fortunes are in plain sight. On Monday he was forced to testify, tetchily, in the New York fraud trial that threatens to derail his entire business empire.

On a happier note for him, a New York Times/Siena College poll puts Trump ahead of Joe Biden in five of the six critical swing states where the 2024 presidential election, now a year away, will be won. The survey underlines how Trump appears so far to be unscathed by the historic 91 felony charges he faces, though it also provides a warning that if he is convicted and sentenced, voters in the battleground states could punish him by switching to Biden.

Tired of Winning recounts how those close to Trump have consciously embraced the paradox that the indictments appear to have strengthened his standing within the Republican party. Karl relates that days before he was indicted in the Daniels case, in which Trump is accused of making illegal payments to an adult movie star to cover up an alleged affair, his former senior adviser in the White House Steve Bannon mused that Trump could turn his legal plight to political advantage.

“This week, Trump could lock down the nomination if he played his cards right,” Karl says Bannon told him. “‘They’re crucifying me,’ you know, ‘I’m a martyr.’ All that. You get everybody so riled up that they just say, ‘Fuck it. I hate Trump, but we’ve got to stand up against this.’”

The harsh words that Trump had for Blanche at a time when he arguably most needed his lawyer’s counsel goes some way to explain the umpteen fallings-out he has had with his inner circle. Karl writes that Hope Hicks, a former top adviser in Trump’s White House, had sharp words after she testified behind closed doors to the House committee investigating the 6 January 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol.

“Later, Hicks would tell friends she hoped Trump would read the transcript of her testimony once it was published. If he did, she said he’d hopefully never want to talk to her again.”

The book also contains a priceless anecdote about an exchange between then president Trump and the former German chancellor Angela Merkel. Following the engagement, he bragged to a Republican congressman, who promptly shared the story with Karl, that Merkel had gone out of her way to compliment Trump over the large crowds he attracted at his rallies.

“She said she could never get crowds like that,” Trump is reported to have gloated. “In fact, she told me that there was only one other political leader who ever got crowds as big as mine.”

Karl notes drily that the congressman was left wondering whether Trump had any idea of the individual to whom Merkel was alluding. “Which would be more unsettling: that he didn’t or that he did?” the author writes.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/court-artist-covering-trumps-trial-160815085.html

 

One thing most all the books on this thread have in common is the description of the White House as an adult day care where Trump was constantly being manipulated and/or ignored. Surrounded by people who were just as stupid, ignorant, and incompetent as Trump.





New book details chaos when Trump aide tried to start Afghanistan withdrawal
ALEXANDRA HUTZLER
Fri, November 10, 2023 at 4:18 AM MST·3 min read
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In his final days in the White House, President Donald Trump tried to launch a U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan -- only he wasn't exactly the person giving the orders, according to a new book by ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl.

In "Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party," excerpts of which were released in Vanity Fair on Friday, Karl reports that aide Johnny McEntee, known as Trump's "body guy," led a chaotic attempt to reshape the U.S. military posture abroad.


PHOTO: Former President Donald Trump and his personal aide John McEntee walk to the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Sept. 11, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters, FILE)
MORE: Trump's 'retribution' campaign theme has apparent roots in old Confederate code, new book says

The incident was first reported on by Jonathan Swan of Axios, but Karl provides significant new details.

McEntee, after serving as Trump's "body guy" (or "body man" as some say) -- the staffer responsible for traveling with the president and carrying his bags -- became, at age 30, the director of the Presidential Personnel Office, primarily responsible for overseeing the hiring and firing of executive branch employees, including ensuring staffers were loyal to Trump's political vision.


PHOTO: John McEntee walks to Marine One to join former President Donald Trump for travel to Florida in Washington, Feb. 16, 2018. (Leah Millis/Reuters, FILE)
But after the 2020 election, Karl writes, McEntee took on a greater role -- one that saw him involved in Trump's ousting of Defense Secretary Mark Esper -- replacing him with Christopher Miller -- and the recruiting of Miller's senior adviser Douglas Macgregor.

From there, Karl reports, McEntee wrote a list for what Trump should do in the final days of his presidency -- a list that included withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Africa.


"Three days after Macgregor arrived at the Pentagon, he called McEntee and told him he couldn't accomplish any of the items on their handwritten to-do list without a signed order from the president," Karl writes in the excerpts released by Vanity Fair.


PHOTO: Col. Douglas Macgregor speaks at the Army Leader Exchange attended by students and faculty of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Feb. 28, 2018, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. (Dan Neal/U.S. Army, FILE)
The House Jan. 6 committee’s investigation unearthed the extraordinary story of what happened next, Karl writes, but it wasn't included in the committee's final report. The panel had taken the sworn testimony of the key players, including McEntee and Macgregor, as well as national security adviser Robert O’Brien and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley.

Macgregor advised McEntee the priority should be the Afghanistan withdrawal and that it should be put in a presidential directive. But when McEntee couldn't figure out how to draft such a document, Macgregor told him and his assistant "to open a cabinet, find an old presidential decision memorandum, and copy it," Karl writes.

"Easy enough," Karl reports. McEntee and his assistant "wrote up the order, had the president sign it, and sent it over to Kash Patel, the new acting defense secretary's chief of staff."

But the document caused widespread confusion among top officials.


PHOTO: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington, July 18, 2023. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP, FILE)
Miller met with Milley and others to discuss next steps, but Milley quickly questioned who had given Trump such military advice. When no one could say where it came from, he and Miller went to the White House for answers, Karl writes.

When Milley asked O'Brien, Trump's national security adviser, where the document came from, O'Brien said he'd never seen it before. Also at that meeting was Vice President Mike Pence's national security adviser Keith Kellogg, who looked at the order and told the room: "This doesn't look right," according to the excerpts.

"'You're telling me that thing is forged?' Milley responded in disbelief, Karl writes. 'That's a forged piece of paper directing a military operation by the president of the United States? That's forged, Keith?'" Milley said, according to the excerpts.

The group eventually asked Trump directly, who confirmed he'd signed it. O'Brien then told Trump it "would be very bad," Karl writes, and advised him not to follow through with the directive.

"As soon as he realized an Afghanistan withdrawal would require more work than having McEntee scribble up a note, he dropped it entirely," Karl reports.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/book-details-chaos-trump-aide-111800533.html

 

So with the spate of tell all books dishing on all things Trump, we wondered just how well the book sales were going. As it turns out, if you weren't one of the early gossips getting into print, your book wasn't going to do well.
No surprise there.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.​

Former Trump Aides' Juicy Tell-All Books Flopped in Sales: Politico (businessinsider.com)
Multiple former Trump aides cashed in with dishy memoirs that flopped in sales, report says
Grace Panetta
Jun 23, 2022, 8:00 AM MDT

• Many tell-all memoirs from former Trump aides have flopped in sales, Politico reports.
• Books by Mark Meadows, Mark Esper, Dr. Ben Carson, and Dr. Deborah Birx all sold under 22,000 copies.
• "It's boring people cashing in by saying the same things they've been saying all along," a publishing industry source told Politico.

After former President Donald Trump left office, several of his former aides cashed in with buzzy book deals bringing lucrative advances. But many of those books have failed to match that buzz with sales, Politico reported Thursday.

Tell-all books by former national security adviser John Bolton and former FBI director James Comey that were published during the Trump presidency made waves and were massive commercial hits, selling over 600,000 copies each, per Politico. "A Warning," an anonymously authored inside account of the Trump administration that was later revealed to be written by former Department of Homeland Security official Miles Taylor, also topped the New York Times bestseller list after it was published in 2019.

But books published after the Trump presidency — both those laudatory and critical of Trump — have brought in comparatively meager sales figures, according to figures from NPD Bookscan obtained by Politico.

The NPD Bookscan numbers, Politico noted, don't include 100% of hardcover sales and don't capture audiobook or e-book sales. But they still show how a mismatch between the supply of post-Trump memoirs and the demand for such books.

• The top-performing Trump book, Peter Navarro's "Taking Back Trump's America," has sold over 80,000 copies.
• Former Attorney General Bill Barr's memoir "One Damn Thing After Another" has sold a little over 64,000 copies, per NPD Bookscan. (A spokesperson for Barr told Politico the book has sold 140,000 to 150,000 copies in all).
• Former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway's book "Here's the Deal" sold a little over 42,000 copies. (A spokesperson for publisher Simon & Schuster told Politico they were "pleased" with the sales of the book).
• Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham's Trump-critical memoir "I'll Take Your Questions Now" sold a little over 38,000 copies.
• A book written by Dr. Scott Atlas, who advised the White House on COVID, sold just over 27,000 copies.
• Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows' book "The Chief's Chief," which contained the bombshell revelation that Trump tested positive for COVID before a debate with Joe Biden, sold less than 22,000 copies.
• Former HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson's book also sold under 22,000 copies.
• Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper's book sold fewer than 21,000 copies.
• Former White House COVID-19 response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx's memoir sold fewer than 6,000 copies.

"Since he left office, the Trump memoirs have not done great," an unnamed publishing executive told Politico. "Each of the people who have written a book so far was telling stories that we pretty much already knew."

Another publishing industry source told Politico that "every White House memoir so far has been a loser except Navarro," saying that "Barr, Conway, Birx, and Esper lost money."

"It's boring people cashing in by saying the same things they've been saying all along," the person said. "If you don't have big news nuggets, and you're not telling MAGA what they most want to hear, you're wasting your publisher's money. The amazing thing is that Conway, Barr, Birx, and Esper got over 5 million [in advance money] between them."

 

There are few things funnier than trying to pretend that books written by just ph0ony lying Trump sycophants didn't sell well because they were late to the game instead of being treasonous liars no one gives a shit about.

This thread is more than five years old and almost all the books written by reputable writers are block buster best sellers. Cassidy Hutchinson's book Enough just recently came out and was a #1 New York Times best seller.

And I am betting Karl's new book, "Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party,"'s will be another one.




Trump was privately enthralled by baseless theory he could be reinstated as president: New book
QUINN SCANLAN and MADISON BURINSKY
Sun, November 12, 2023 at 7:53 AM MST·3 min read
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Despite losing the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump came to believe a fringe conspiracy theory that he could be reinstated long after leaving office and before the next election, a new book by ABC's "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl reveals.

Trump has long publicly aired his grievances over the last presidential election, frequently repeating false claims that it was "stolen." But as Karl reports in his new book, "Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party," Trump became fixated on a far-right theory that he could actually replace President Joe Biden.

The idea was not based in law and was clearly unconstitutional, but it was supported by some of Trump's most devout followers, MyPillow CEO Michael Lindell chief among them.

Lindell had claimed that Trump would be able to move back into the White House on Aug. 13, 2021. He promised to reveal terabytes of "evidence" during a three-day symposium he hosted in South Dakota in the lead-up to that deadline. He said the "evidence" would prove mass vote-flipping executed by Chinese hackers.

The evidence, however, did not exist. But Trump was enthralled.



In June of 2021, the former president put out an otherwise typical statement that included the phrase "2024 or before!" at the end.

In a phone call the next month, Karl pressed Trump on what he meant by that.

"You don't really think there's a way you would get reinstated before the next election?" Karl asked Trump.

"I'm not going to explain it to you, Jonathan, because you wouldn't -- you wouldn't either understand it or write it," Trump said, according to audio of the call.

Karl learned while reporting for his new book that Trump was talking in private a lot about the baseless notion of being reinstated -- so much so that some of his advisers were concerned he actually believed he could somehow force Biden out of the White House before the next election.

Former Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis, who in October pleaded guilty in the Georgia election subversion case for making false statements about election fraud, publicly refuted the idea in May 2021.

She tweeted: "The Constitution has only one process for removal of a sitting president: impeachment and conviction. No, President Trump is not going to be 'reinstated.'"


PHOTO: President Donald Trump speaks at 'Save America March' rally in Washington D.C., United States on January 06, 2021. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
The theory was even too much for one of Trump's staunchest congressional allies.

Former Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., was the first lawmaker in December 2020 to announce plans to challenge the congressional certification of Biden's victory and spoke -- while donning body armor -- at Trump's rally immediately preceding the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

His steadfast support of the 2020 election lies earned Brooks Trump's endorsement in the 2022 Alabama Senate Republican primary.

However, by the summer of 2021, Brooks changed his tune and encouraged Trump supporters to move past the 2020 election fraud claims.

"There are some people who are despondent about the voter fraud and election theft in 2020. Folks, put that behind you. Put that behind you," he said in August 2021, prompting boos -- and chants of "fix it now!" -- from a hometown crowd in Cullman, Alabama.



Months after Brooks suggested voters move on from the election fraud claims, Trump called him with multiple election-related demands, Brooks told Karl earlier this year. Among them: "He asked me to publicly state that Donald Trump should be allowed to move back into the White House, reinstated as president."

Brooks said he refused and that his refusal led to Trump retaliating by rescinding his endorsement of Brooks the same month. Brooks went on to lose the primary to now-Sen. Katie Britt.

Karl asked Brooks if he thought Trump really believed he could be reinstated.

"I sure hope not," Brooks told Karl. "Because if he truly believed that, then he was way outside the bounds of reality."

Karl's "Tired of Winning" will be published Tuesday.


https://www.yahoo.com/gma/trump-privately-enthralled-baseless-theory-145310793.html

 

Little bit early to be praising Hutchinson's book.

And yeah, all those tell all books are pretty much destined to end up on the bargain table as soon as they come out.

See, no one cares about some tell all book a hack was paid to write that has an agenda.

 

Due to Trump's mental illness and the shared psychosis of his treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republican cult followers constantly spewing lies, false propaganda, and psychological projection its easy to lose sight of the bigger picture.

Which includes putting ourselves in the places of Merrick Garland and Jack Smith. Both of them had to wrestle with something that has never happened before in American history. Charging a former president with what amounts to treason against the United States of America. I think that had to weigh very heavily on them. And it was a very hard decision to come to. But the evidence out weighed everything else and if they really do believe in law and order and that no one is above the law they had no choice. And as soon ass they made the decision to charge Trump everything else was set in stone.


Jack Smith sat in stone-cold silence as Trump lawyers pleaded with him not to indict: book




Brad Reed

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Jack Smith (Photpo by Jerry Lampen for AFP)


Special counsel Jack Smith took a meeting with attorneys representing former President Donald Trump earlier this year and reportedly sat in stone-cold silence while they pleaded with him not to indict their client.

Politico reports that ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl's new book on Trump's post-presidential life claims that Trump lawyers Trump attorneys Todd Blanche and John Lauro met with Smith's team over the summer and gave them a list of reasons why charging Trump with crimes related to his efforts to illegally remain in power would be a mistake.

According to Karl, Smith sat through through the presentation without saying a word.

"As Lauro spoke, the prosecutors took notes, but they said nothing," Karl reports. "Smith waited until Lauro was done speaking and then, without commenting on what he just heard, he bid the Trump lawyers farewell. According to sources with direct knowledge of the meeting, Smith did not ask a single question. And aside from the pleasantries at the start of the meeting (including the offer of a glass of water) and the goodbye at the end, neither Smith nor the two prosecutors said anything at all.”

Just four hours later, Smith and his team would slap Trump with criminal charges related to his efforts to obstruct the United States government from retrieving top-secret government documents from his Mar-a-Lago resort, and charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election would come less than a week later.

Trump has repeatedly railed against Smith on his Truth Social website, frequently referring to the special prosecutor as "deranged."




https://www.rawstory.com/jack-smith-2666244661/