“Why am I not surprised it was a new york times reporter trashing our first lady?” Pirro tweeted in 2017. I’m officially a New York Times Bestselling author,” Owens tweeted on September 23, followed five days later by “It’s time for our Department of Justice to begin looking into the New York Times.” “Just when you think the New York Times can’t get any dumber,” begins one of Gingrich’s recent tweets, which appeared underneath a header image touting his status as a number one New York Times best-selling author. (The two outliers aren’t Democratic polemicals they are the memoirs Live in Love, by Lauren Akins, who is married to country musician Thomas Rhett, and Incomparable, by twin WWE fighters Brie and Nikki Bella.)Įven as some conservative dagger-stars of 2020 have crucified the New York Times as fake news, those same authors apparently see the best-seller list as a badge of honor. Of these 15, nine appeared on the list for three weeks or less. founder of Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk Glenn Beck conservative commentator Dave Rubin Fox News host Pete Hegseth Dinesh D’Souza Newt Gingrich Freedom Center founder David Horowitz Ben Shapiro Sean Hannity Sarah Huckabee Sanders Candace Owens Jeanine Pirro the American Conservative editor Rod Dreher and Ted Cruz. All but two have been written by Trumpworld superstars: Trump Jr. In 2020, 17 books on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction best-seller list have scored their spots by dint of bulk buys. Many of those authors used campaign funds to finance the purchases, which the FEC allows as long as the author doesn’t keep the royalties. Since then, dozens of nonfiction books each year-including by politicians like Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, and Sarah Palin-have appeared on the list with an assist from bulk buys. wasn’t the first in his family to discover the joy of bulk sales-three decades earlier, as the New Republic reported in 2017, his dad encouraged owners of Trump properties to buy thousands of copies of The Art of the Deal, helping it ride the list for 48 weeks.

A week later, the paper’s books desk released a report that a nearly $100,000 bulk purchase of the book by the RNC had contributed to the ranking.

In November 2019, Donald Trump Jr.’s book Triggered debuted at the top of the New York Times hardcover nonfiction best-seller list.

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