Book bombs: Trump aide tell-alls fail to sell [View all]

[kpete]

A number of top aides to the 45th president churned out books after his presidency ended. The public isn’t buying.

“A year after Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, his former chief of staff Mark Meadows released a tell-all book about his 10 months in the White House that promised to be a ‘frank, candid account’ of running Trump’s chaotic West Wing,” Politico reports.

“The buzz around it was heavy. But in the publishing world, it was a bust. The Chief’s Chief has sold only 21,569 books… And it’s not the only book by an ex-Trump aide that has failed to fly off the shelves.”

“The memoir of Deborah Birx, the Covid response coordinator under Trump, has sold fewer than 6,000 copies; Dr. Scott Atlas’ book sold 27,013 copies; Dr. Ben Carson’s book sold 21,786 copies; former White House press secretary turned Trump critic Stephanie Grisham sold 38,249 books; counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway has sold 42,273 books since it was published in late May; and former defense secretary Mark Esper sold 20,900 books.”

“Former attorney general Bill Barr sold 64,103 books. But the one Trump post-White House book sales that did best appears to be Peter Navarro’s, whose In Trump Time has sold 80,218 copies of his book so far.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/23/trump-aides-book-00041620
https://politicalwire.com/2022/06/23/books-by-former-trump-aides-bomb/