Why there are lawsuits about the book

[Vidal]

Book sales.

All the publicity about the book and the lawsuits, etc. has pushed the book immediately to the top of the bestseller lists.

People are speculating that Trump gets a share of the profits and that he is helping the book sales by getting more publicity, which he is very good at.

[Vinyasa Guy]

1. Interesting, and I would not put it past him.

[sarah FAILIN]

2. I thought he must be getting a cut

I will wait for it to be posted somewhere to read it

[murielm99]

3. I think this may be

Kabuki theater. Something more serious is going on and 45 and Bannon are trying to use this book as a distraction.

45 may be genuinely angry over many of the things written in the book. But it still provides good cover for whatever is closing in on them in the real world.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Nonsense. Trump is not a strategic thinker.

And he hates more than anything being trash-talked by people he believes should be uwaveringly loyal to him. There's no way someone as impulsive, egotistical and not-bright as Trump would cook up a scheme to have himself harshly insulted by his own staff just to get a cut from book sales.