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Traditional Book Publishing and Donald J. Trump (45)

  So ... POTUS 45 is said to be looking for a book publisher. This is a traditional thing for ex-President's to do, after all. More so than scheming for some fantasy "reinstatement" under the hidden reinstatement clause of the constitution. [It was written by the founders on invisible ink on the back of unused bamboo ballots. That clause.]  Anyway, COLT 45 wants to sell a book about his presidency. But getting a prestige main-line publisher to sign on is, according to reports, proving to be difficult.  Presidential memoirs are always ghost-written -- heck it can be an assembly-line operation. The Trump organization is up to the task of putting together a book to which he has put his name. They've done it before. But they don't want it to look like a vanity production. And they probably don't want a committed conservative publishing house like Regnery. Random House published Trump: The Art of the Deal in the '80s. There has been considerable consolidation ...