As House Democrats enter into a second week of impeachment testimony and the party's presidential hopefuls prepared to debate in Atlanta, a new book condemning Donald Trump's presidency was released Tuesday.
"Trump: A Warning" is being published by Twelve, a division of Hatchette Book Group, France's largest publishing company and the world's third-largest trade and educational publisher.
The book's author is anonymous, but, according to ABC News, is a senior Trump administration official who wrote, in 2018, a New York Times op-ed claiming a "resistance" within the administration.
Hatchette is calling the book “an unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation’s capital.”
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The author is being represented by Javelin, whose co-founder told CNN the author declined a seven-figure advance and intends to donate some of the book's royalties "to the White House Correspondents Association and other organizations that fight for a free press that seeks the truth."
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Matt Latimer said the book "was not written by the author lightly, or for the purpose of financial enrichment. It has been written as an act of conscience and of duty."
White House officials have dismissed the narrative. "It takes a lot of conviction and bravery to write a whole book anonymously," press secretary Stephanie Grisham said.
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