The nation’s liberal elites can’t erase President Donald Trump and those who worked and supported him fast enough.
What started as a campaign to block Team Trump from quickly getting credible jobs has now extended to banning anything it touches.
Take, for example, the new novel about President Abraham Lincoln, Old Abe, by New York Times bestselling author John Cribb. Promotions for the book were rejected by Facebook because they included positive quotes from former Vice President Mike Pence.
And the publishing world is moving en masse against the former administration by blackballing it from writing contracts. A petition signed by nearly 600 in the industry wants the “Son of Sam” rules barring criminals from profiting off publishing to cover Trump and his team.
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— Oliver North (@OliverLNorth) January 24, 2021
That effort should hit a crisis stage when Trump decides to write an autobiography. A publishing industry source close to the former president told Secrets that Trump “is thinking of one” but hasn’t formalized a deal yet.
“The publishing industry is girding itself to resist it and block it. That includes all of the major publishers and even printers and warehouses,” said the source.
Before the presidency, Trump was a bestselling author, among his many roles.
While many industry insiders are violently opposed to signing a book contract with the president or his top aides, that could change after a cooling-off period.
“It’s harder to sell a book or land a TV contributorship for anyone coming out of the Trump administration than it’s ever been,” said Keith Urbahn, the founding partner and president of Washington-based Javelin, which has represented many authors, including former Trump national security aide John Bolton, Rep. Dan Crenshaw, and “Anonymous.”
“It’s no secret that New York publishers have always taken a dim view toward Trump administration officials and books, even as they made tens of millions of dollars off of them the past four years. But along with the rest of corporate America, there’s been a sharp turn in the wake of the election and Jan. 6. Deals are being made for a few select high-level officials, but the bar for a major book deal got a lot higher for anyone who worked for Trump in the past month,” he added.
Jan. 6 was the day of violent pro-Trump rallies at the U.S. Capitol.
Facing being blacklisted, retired Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North has revived his role as a hero to the Right by offering Trump authors a home at his Fidelis Publishing.
“Since I run Fidelis Publishing, I said, ‘Yeah, if you can’t find somebody else to publish, all it requires is content that’s biblical,” he said of his offer, shown below.
He told us that the reaction has been swift and positive. “We’re obviously overwhelmed,” he said. Fidelis received some 150,000 responses, including some six serious book potential ideas from Trump insiders.
North, who for decades has fought censorship and the sneers of the Left after working for President Ronald Reagan, said the private sector banning has reached epic levels.
“Private sector censorship is more powerful than the government. [Nazi propagandist Joseph] Goebbels back in Hitler’s days only dreamed of this kind of power,” said North, whose latest book is Veterans’ Lament: Is This the America Our Heroes Fought For? He co-wrote it with David Goetsch.
A key figure in the Iran-Contra affair, North said that if that had happened today, he too would have been erased in the media. Back then, he won a feature picture in Life, and former President Reagan told famed Time Washington correspondent Hugh Sidey that North was “a national hero.”
Said North this week, “That got published. That would not get published today.”
