• barsquid@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It just means it sold a number of copies, there is zero judgement on the content. Sometimes a campaign will launder money directly to a candidate by purchasing many copies of that candidate’s book to give away. It is somehow legal.

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          3 months ago

          Yes. The book itself was published in 2016, was on the bestseller list for over a year, and he basically renounced like 75% of the contents when he started running for his first political office in 2022.

          It was the book’s success that made him a politician, not his political connections making his book a success.