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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