Don Trump Jr.’s sad book was bought in bulk by the RNC at a cost of $94K

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As we discussed previously, Dull Trump Jr’s sad book, Triggered: Moronic Musings on Ass Clownery and Nepotism, debuted on the New York Times’ nonfiction bestseller list at #1. The NYT put a little “dagger” notation beside the book, meaning that someone or some organization had been buying the book in bulk. The RNC copped to it immediately, claiming that they were buying the book to give away to donors and such. Now we know that Republicans at the RNC are the only ones buying this stupid book:

When Donald Trump Jr.’s new book “Triggered” appeared at the top of the New York Times best-seller list this month, a debate erupted over how and why it had claimed the No. 1 spot. The book, a broad attack on his critics, Democrats and the news media, was published on Nov. 5. The following week, it topped the list. But some skeptics noted that Mr. Trump had gotten a boost from his father’s Twitter feed and from the Republican National Committee, which emailed supporters the day the book came out, asking them to purchase signed copies and touting it as the book the “left doesn’t want you to read.”

Others noted a tiny dagger symbol that appeared next to the title on the list, indicating that bulk purchases of the book had boosted its ranking. (Of the 10 nonfiction hardcover titles currently on The Times’s best-seller list, “Triggered” is the only one featuring that symbol.) Some of Mr. Trump’s supporters pushed back on social media and anonymously to Fox News, saying that even without bulk sales, “Triggered” would still top the list.

“We haven’t made a large bulk purchase, but are ordering copies to keep up with demand,” Mike Reed, an R.N.C. spokesman, said two days after the fund-raising email promoting “Triggered” was sent. “Each book is sold to an individual who supports the Republican Party.”

But a financial disclosure form filed to the Federal Election Commission showed that the R.N.C. paid $94,800 to the bookseller chain Books-A-Million on Oct. 29, a week before the book went on sale. Disclosures filed by the R.N.C. indicate that the payment was for “donor mementos.” When asked about the disclosure on Thursday, Mr. Reed confirmed that the money went toward “Triggered” orders, and added that the party committee made additional purchases in November. “The book has been hugely popular,” he said.

Asked about the discrepancy, since the committee previously said it was only ordering copies as supporters requested them, Mr. Reed said via email: “We stand by our statement.”

[From The NY Times]

Say what you will about the history of the Republican National Committee, but I remember a time when the RNC was actually run and operated by adults who at least gave a sh-t about A) the optics and B) where they were spending money. The RNC just blew through $100K of donor money to bulk-buy (PRE-ORDER) the book fake-written by the president’s idiot son, a son who is not running for political office. Dull Jr. is just a sad moron who needed some busy work and the RNC financed his pathetic project at the cost of $100K. Which begs the question… why didn’t the RNC just hire Dull and cut out the whole dumb “here’s the jackass’s book as a gift!” middle part.

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  1. Christin says:

    More evidence of smoke and mirrors, just like the bots all over social media.

    The only value that “memento” would have is when all of this is history, and it will be like the joke-filled Nixon coloring book my parents bought that illustrates the stupidity of the characters in charge.

    For anyone wanting to see what his party is made of, check out Sen. Blackburn’s tweet of today. I guess she’ll be invited to Thanksgiving and can compare surgery notes with stepmom and mamacita.

  2. nicegirl says:

    MORONIC MUSINGS ON ASSCLOWNERY AND NEPOTISM omg this is why you are our favorite writer, Kaiser.

  3. jules says:

    I couldn’t even get through reading the title….

  4. Esmom says:

    They’re buying lots of the books because their members want them? Like they can’t order it themselves if they’re so keen to read it? So gross.

    I remember my librarians being so agonized about having to order Fifty Shades of Grey for patrons. I can’t even imagine how they feel about ordering this….actually I just checked and they have one copy, lol. For comparison, they have 24 copies of Michelle Obama’s Becoming! 325 in the regional library system overall for MObama’s and 25 for Junior’s. Womp womp.

  5. Oh No says:

    Lol, such a loser

    Too bad the RNC couldn’t buy his pos daddy’s love

  6. judith reeder says:

    HAHAHA, how embarrassing!!

  7. Liz version 700 says:

    I wonder which charity or political action funds were used to pay for DJT Jrs book. You KNOW that they would never use Trump’s money grrrrr

  8. Lightpurple says:

    The RNC is actually reselling them at a higher markup at events, which won’t sit well with the publisher in case Junior and his ghostwriter Kim want to write future books.

  9. Ladykatan says:

    Sadly this is common practice in the book industry. I used to run a very liberal bookstore in SF. We never carried books like this trash in our store, but if someone wanted to special order it from us we would, because we never wanted to censor ideas. Far right organizations would make a point of ordering large quantities of books by people like Ann Coulter to make some sort of idiotic point. But how we would combat this is super simple: we’d donate all the proceeds to organizations that help. Ex when Palin’s horrendous autobiography “Going Rogue” came out, we donated 100% of our proceeds to the Alaska Wildlife Fund. Sure they could say that sold hundreds of copies of their propaganda at a liberal bookstore, but for every sale $$$ went to charities that matter.

  10. JanetFerber says:

    How much do I hate this f-cker? Let me count the ways. Weasel.

  11. Allergy says:

    Put him in a cage with five tigers.

  12. Bill says:

    Stay tuned for his sequel, “Rigged.”

  13. Gary says:

    So basically they purchased $94,000 to turn around and sell it for more than the going rate on Amazon or SkanksWhoCantReadGood.com.

  14. Bread and Circuses says:

    It sure seems like there’s only one side of the political divide that always cheats to win.