BACKSTORY: Not many people bought Hunter Biden’s book (Captain Underpants children’s book sold 55,000 more copies)

Captain Underpants Dog Man, the children’s book, sold almost 55,000 more copies than Beautiful Things as the Hunter Biden memoir flopped during its first week in bookstores.

Despite glowing press coverage from CBS This Morning to Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the tome sold only 10,638 copies on the Publishers Weekly chart that was topped by the 10th volume in the Dog Man series.

In the non-fiction hardcover list category, Beautiful Things was ranked 12th, well below the top-selling The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country, that was read by Amanda Gorman at Joe Biden's inauguration. It sold 42,318 copies in the same week.

The autobiography of the president's troubled son contains salacious details of crack cocaine drug addiction, an affair with his dead brother's wife, fathering a child with a stripper.

"In the last five years alone, my two-decades-long marriage has dissolved, guns have been put in my face, and at one point I dropped clean off the grid, living in $59-a-night Super 8 motels off the I-95 while scaring my family even more than myself," he wrote.

CNN's Brian Stelter promoted it on Reliable Sources as “breathtaking” and “extraordinary”, while the publicity tour for the confessional saw interviews with Mr Biden on the BBC, ABC, and twice on CBS.

Asked in the interviews whether the notorious laptop reported by The New York Post during the election campaign, that showed a side not even revealed in his memoir, belong to him, Mr Biden said it likely could have.

"Of course certainly. It, it, there could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me. It could be that I was hacked. It could be that it was the – that it was Russian intelligence. It could be that it was stolen from me," he said.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has said that the administration was not involved in vetting the content that went into the 272-page tell-all, but that the president was “proud” about the personal story being told

“We were not [involved in vetting], it was a book he wrote himself, the president and first lady put out a statement, making clear, in February I should say when the book was announced,” she said.

“They’re ‘deeply supportive of their son sharing his account about his painful experiences with addiction’, which is exactly what the book does and they’re hopeful that it can help millions of people who have struggled with the same challenges.”

Despite all the news that flowed from Mr Biden's revelations, and the publicity tour around it, the book only sold 11,000 copies (rounding up).

That was still enough to place it on The New York Times' Best Sellers list at 4th in the “Hardcover Nonfiction” category, while it landed on Amazon at fifth in the nonfiction category in its first week.

Among comparable non-fiction books on the Publishers Weekly rankings, Mr Biden was beaten by Fox News host Shannon Bream, whose title The Women of the Bible Speak: The Wisdom of 16 Women and Their Lessons for Today, sold 32,686 copies.

That placed Ms Bream second behind the inauguration poem The Hill We Climb, from Ms Gorman, which sold a huge 256,985 copies this year. That’s still dwarfed by half-million sales of Dog Man in 2021.

Hunter goes postal

Hunter Biden’s Firm Wanted to Asset Strip the U.S. Postal Service, E-Mail Reveals...Meanwhile, Joe Biden is trying to replace the Postmaster General.
https://thenationalpulse.com ^ | April 1, 2022 | by Raheem J. Kassam
Posted on 4/5/2022, 8:11:01 AM by Red Badger

President Biden’s son Hunter’s Rosemont Seneca firm considered the idea of asset stripping the U.S. Postal Service, previously unseen e-mails have revealed. The news comes as Joe Biden attempts to oust the current Postmaster General over election fraud concerns.

Writing to colleagues including Hunter Biden – the disgraced son of then-Vice President Joe Biden – Rosemont Seneca partner Neil Callahan said, “I still love this idea,” before forwarding an e-mail discussing the asset stripping of the U.S. Postal Service, The National Pulse can reveal.

Rosemont Seneca is the controversial firm led by Hunter Biden, which engaged in energy deals with the Chinese Communist Party as well as Burisma in Ukraine, and Metabiota’s biolabs in the same Eurasian nation.

Callahan was referring to an idea for a friend of Rosemont Seneca’s, a man by the name of Amitava Mitra.

Mitra had mooted the idea of asset stripping the U.S. Postal Service, detailing a strategy involving the multi-billion dollar, New York-based investment firm Evercore:

“I was talking with the evercore guys today… Evercore has a contract with USPS, who knows what they do, strategic advice they say. probably they are just selling off the real estate quietly as the USPS is in a $ 6 or 7 billion hole. think of it, USPS’s real estate in NY, DC, Chicago, LA, SF is worth $ 30 billion… if you can find a good firm, to fund this can be a huge play, just retail real estate like Grand central station… let me know.”

The news comes after the 2020 election, during which operatives on the political left accused President Donald Trump of attacking the Postal Service over his concerns with mail-in ballots.

The revelations are also concerning given current President Joe Biden’s insistence on removing the current Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, as Biden seeks to fundamentally transform the service with focuses on election funding and a green agenda.

The idea as presented on Hunter Biden’s hard drive did not appear to lead anywhere, though it may go some way to explaining Biden’s current obsession with removing Trump-era appointee DeJoy.

Last year, Biden began stacking the USPS board with political allies after being urged to do so by far-left Members of Congress. Last year, without specifics, outgoing White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki blasted DeJoy:

“We are, of course, deeply troubled, continue to be deeply troubled — as many Americans are — by the earlier reporting on Postmaster General DeJoy’s potential financial conflicts of interest and take serious issues with the job he’s doing running the Postal Service… It’s up to the board to make a determination about leadership, but we have continued concerns about the postmaster general’s leadership.”

The behavior strikes a worryingly similar tone to that of Joe Biden in Ukraine in 2016. During a Council on Foreign Relations event, the former VP appeared to admit that he leveraged U.S. aid to Ukraine in order to force out a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating his son Hunter’s former company, Burisma.

“I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’” Biden said he told Poroshenko, before concluding: “Well, son of a bitch, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.”

The Hunter Biden USPS e-mail was sent just after a deal was struck between the Postal Service and Evercore, an investing and consulting firm led by former Clinton Treasury appointee Roger Altman.

Altman, a college friend of former President Clinton’s, was forced to resign from the U.S. government in 1994 after admitting before the U.S. Senate that he had given White House officials a “heads-up” on nine criminal referrals that, according to CNN, “targeted Clinton’s 1985 gubernatorial campaign, and named the Clintons as witnesses in others.”

The news comes as corporate media organizations admit the veracity of Hunter Biden’s hard drive and the associated e-mails within. The National Pulse was one of the first and most frequent outlets to report from the drive, with a cache of stories available at BidenLeak.com

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