A letter calling for U.S. publishers not to sign book deals with Trump administration officials has been signed by 500 authors and literary professionals.
The letter, titled “No Book Deals For Traitors,” was written by Barry Lyga in an attempt to keep members of the Trump administration from financially benefiting from book deals.
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‘“Consequently, we believe: No participant in an administration that caged children, performed involuntary surgeries on captive women, and scoffed at science as millions were infected with a deadly virus should be enriched by the almost rote largesse of a big book deal,” the letter goes on to say.’
But incessantly bombing half a dozen poor black, brown Muslim-majority countries for 8 years is perfectly respectable.
Along with torture, human pyramids, indefinite detention without trial, illegal bombings, invasions and occupations …
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