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‘I Survived the Bowling Green Massacre’: Outrage and Mockery Target Publisher Who Just Gave Kellyanne Conway a Book Deal

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Simon & Schuster has given Kellyanne Conway a book deal, the deputy editor of The New York Times Book Review reports, and people both inside and outside the company are furious. The 97-year old worldwide publisher also recently handed former vice president Mike Pence a multi-book deal with a multi-million dollar advance, after ponying up a two million dollar advance to former Trump national security adviser John Bolton for his book. Simon & Schuster also gave Missouri far right U.S. Senator Josh Hawley a book deal but canceled it after his leading role in the January 6 insurrection.

As the Times reports, Simon & Schuster employees were furious after their bosses gave Pence his major deal, and “much of the staff erupted in protest.” On Monday, “more than 200 employees and 3,500 outside supporters, including Simon & Schuster authors” signed a petition demanding the company kill the Pence book deal.

That was before news broke about Kellyanne Conway, the former Trump campaign manager who got him into the White House then became Senior Counselor to the President, and one of his closest advisors. Throughout the Trump era many opposed to the administration called her “Minister of Propaganda.”

And now many are outraged that yet another Trump administration official is making money off their time working for a president some – including at least one member of his administration – say is responsible for hundreds of thousands of coronavirus deaths.

Here’s how people are responding to Simon & Schuster handing Conway a major book deal.

 

 

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Trump Calls Most Major News Polls “Fake” After They Show GOP Voters Prefer Ron DeSantis

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After recent polls showed the Republican voters prefer Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to twice-impeached former President Donald Trump, Trump said that “REAL POLLING” proves that he’s actually the favorite.

A recent poll from The Wall Street Journal found that 52 percent of likely Republican primary voters preferred DeSantis for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 while only 38 percent preferred Trump. Approximately 86 percent of poll respondents said they held favorable views of DeSantis, compared to only 74 percent who held favorable views of Trump.

A recent USA Today-Suffolk University poll also showed DeSantis leading Trump 56 percent to 33 percent among Republican and Republican-leaning voters in a hypothetical Republican presidential primary.

Apparently, upset by these polls, Trump then went onto his so-called free speech website, TRUTH Social, to call them (and pretty much all mainstream news polls) “fake,” of course.

“This is the McLaughlin & Associates POLL that just came out and which got it right in 2016 & 2020,” Trump wrote,  “unlike The WSJ, NBC Fake News, ABC Fake News, Fake Polling FOX NEWS, the dying and very sickly USA Today, and most others in the LameStream Media.”

The McLaughlin & Associates poll Trump referred to showed him leading DeSantis 58 percent to 36 percent in a hypothetical Republican presidential primary.

“In other words, it is REAL POLLING. As you can see, we are leading by a lot, despite the never ending Communist (Democrat) WEAPONIZED ATTACKS on me and the GREAT PATRIOTS OF MAGA. More to come!!!” Trump added.

DeSantis has emerged as a favorite among likely Republican candidates for the 2024 presidential race. Sensing this, Trump has slammed him as “Ron DeSanctimonious” at a November rally in Virginia.

During that speech, Trump displayed poll numbers on a screen which showed Trump receiving 71 percent of respondents’ support for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, compared to just 10 percent for DeSantis.

“There it is, Trump at 71. Ron De-Sanctimonious at 10 percent,” said Trump.

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Republicans Now Falsely Accusing Uvalde Police Chief of Being Pro-Biden Child Murderer

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Right-wing Republicans are spreading an untrue conspiracy theory that Pete Arredondo — the school district police chief who has been criticized for not neutralizing the recent elementary school mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas — is a donor to President Joe Biden and deliberately allowed children to die in order to help secure federal firearm reforms.

Disqualified Republican House Candidate Robby Starbuck began the theory by posting a screenshot of Arredondo’s seeming $100 donation from April 2020 to the Biden campaign. The only problem: The donation was made by a different person with the same name (that is, not the police chief), according to the watchdog Twitter account Patriot Takes.

Nevertheless, Starbuck’s lie has been shared by others on social media, including the massively influential right-wing social media figure DC Draino.

Draino has worsened the lie by implying that the police chief may have deliberately allowed the 19 children and two teachers killed in the shooting to die for “political purposes.”

“Arredondo… lied about trying to open the classroom door and told heavily armed officers to stand down while the shooter was in the classroom with kids for over an hour, [the police chief] previously made a small political donation to Beto O’Rourke in 2017. Now Beto is running around Texas calling for guns to be seized. This tragedy gets more evil by the day,” Draino wrote via Twitter.

“Arredondo needs to be fired, criminally investigated, and every phone record and financial record of his needs to be subpoenaed to see if there were other political motivations in play that day,” Draino added on Instagram.

While Arredondo and the police force’s actions may have done more to stop the shooter’s violence, it’s baseless and cruel to think that such a small-dollar donor would allow mass child murder to further a political agenda.

Also, O’Rourke isn’t “running around Texas calling for guns to be seized,” as Draino claims. He’s supporting bipartisan and common-sense gun reforms that would keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers, violent offenders, and mentally ill people. Such reforms have been supported by Republican voters nationwide and by 14 Republicans in the Senate.

The conspiracy theory shouldn’t be surprising, though. Even before the December 14, 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, right-wingers have claimed that mass shootings are either “false flag operations” orchestrated by Democrats to bolster gun reform efforts or hoaxes fabricated by “crisis actors” to do the same.

Either way, it’s a gross distortion of people who support efforts to protect children from gun violence.

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