Sells Out in 15 Minutes
Michael Wolff’s bombshell tell-all about the Trump White House is so incendiary his publishers received a cease an desist letter from the president’s personal attorney demanding they not put it on sale. So they did, four days early. “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” officially went on sale at midnight, and it had the best advertising campaign in modern times: little to none, except for a few excerpts in several media outlets, and President Donald Trump tweeting it’s “full of lies” an hour before people could buy it.
That’s what Trump tweeted at 10:52 PM Thursday night.
There was a line to buy the book – in a snowstorm:
“Dozens upon dozens of political obsessives lined up inside a bookstore in the nation’s capital just before midnight on Friday to be among the first to own a copy of an explosive new book about the Trump administration that President Donald Trump didn’t want them to read,” HuffPost reported.
The Weekly Standard posted this time-lapse video of the book selling out at a DC bookstore, Kramer Books:
Buzzfeed’s Chris Geidner posted these photos:
The book sold out in 15 minutes, according to this Washington Post reporter:
The store had to put a sign in the window Friday morning:
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