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Simon & Schuster employees triggered by Mike Pence deal, demand firm stop making deals with Trump officials
Employees of Simon & Schuster have delivered a petition demanding the publisher stop all deals with Trump administration officials, wherein they accuse the outlet of "perpetuating white supremacy" by going forward with a book by former Vice President Mike Pence.
What are the details?
According to an exclusive report from The Wall Street Journal, Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp was aware that a petition was circulating when he announced internally last week that a memoir by Pence would move forward despite pushback from some employees.
All told, 216 Simon & Schuster employees signed the petition, which equates to roughly 14% of the company's workforce. They also solicited the signatures of another 3,500 outsiders, some of whom were "well-known Black writers," the newspaper wrote.
The Daily Mail later published the contents of the petition in it entirety.
The letter begins by stating:
"The events of the past week have affirmed that Simon & Schuster has chosen complicity in perpetuating white supremacy by publishing Mike Pence and continuing to distribute books for Post Hill Press, including predator Matt Gaetz's FIREBRAND.
By choosing to publish Mike Pence, Simon & Schuster is generating wealth for a central figure of a presidency that unequivocally advocated for racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-Blackness, xenophobia, misogyny, ableism, islamophobia, antisemitism, and violence. This is not a difference of opinions; this is legitimizing bigotry.
The letter goes on to demand that Simon & Schuster "cancel the two-book deal with Mike Pence and do not sign any more book deals with former members of the Trump administration," and "commit to ongoing reevaluations of all clients, authors, distribution deals, and all other financial commitments that promote white supremacist content and/or harm the aforementioned marginalized communities."
The Journal noted the "Simon & Schuster is one of the leading publishers of political books," and just last year published Fox News host Sean Hannity's "Live Free or Die" and former national security adviser John Bolton's anti-Trump book, "The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir."
After canceling Sen. Josh Hawley's book, Simon & Schuster announces new memoir from Hunter Biden
Simon & Schuster announced this week that one of its imprints will publish a forthcoming memoir from Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden.
The announcement came just weeks after the publishing house backed out of moving forward with the publication of a book from Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.).
What are the details?
Simon & Schuster announced on Thursday that Gallery Books, an imprint of publishing house, will publish a book from Hunter Biden in April titled, "Beautiful Things."
The book "details Hunter's descent into substance abuse and his tortuous path to sobriety," according to a press release.
The book received advanced praise from novelist Stephen King, who gushed over the book.
In AA we say it doesn't matter if you come from Yale or jail, all addicts are the same. In his harrowing and compulsively readable memoir, Hunter Biden proves again that anybody—even the son of a United States President—can take a ride on the pink horse down nightmare alley. There are plenty of memoirs about the Three Rs (rum, ruin, and redemption), but there are sections in this one that stand out with haunting clarity. Biden remembers it all and tells it all with a bravery that is both heartbreaking and quite gorgeous. He starts with a question: Where's Hunter? The answer is he's in this book, the good, the bad, and the beautiful.
Hunter Biden has been in news headlines routinely since 2019, facing scrutiny for his overseas business dealings in Ukraine and China.
Hunter Biden admitted in December that he is under federal investigation.
"I learned yesterday for the first time that the U.S. Attorney's Office in Delaware advised my legal counsel, also yesterday, that they are investigating my tax affairs. I take this matter very seriously but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors," Hunter Biden said in a statement, which was released by the Biden-Harris transition team.
What is the background?
One day after the deadly violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Simon & Schuster cancelled the publication of Hawley's book, claiming the Republican lawmaker played a "role" in inciting the violence.
The publisher said in a statement:
After witnessing the disturbing, deadly insurrection that took place on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., Simon & Schuster has decided to cancel publication of Senator Josh Hawley's forthcoming book, THE TYRANNY OF BIG TECH. We did not come to this decision lightly. As a publisher it will always be our mission to amplify a variety of voice and viewpoints; at the same time we take seriously our larger public responsibility as citizens, and cannot support Senator Hawley after his role in what became a dangerous threat to our democracy and freedom.
In response, Hawley vowed to sue Simon & Schuster.
Fortunately for Hawley, Regnery Publishing, which is known for publishing conservative titles, announced they would publish Hawley's forthcoming book.
Simon & Schuster cancels Josh Hawley's upcoming book citing 'his role' in what became 'deadly insurrection'
Publisher Simon & Schuster announced Thursday that it will no longer publish Sen. Josh Hawley's (R-Mo.) upcoming book, citing "his role" in the events that led to Trump supporters storming the Capitol Building on Wednesday as Congress prepared to certify President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College win.
Hawley told the publisher in reaction, "We'll see you in court."
What are the details?
Simon & Schuster issued a public statement saying:
After witnessing the disturbing, deadly insurrection that took place on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., Simon & Schuster has decided to cancel publication of Senator Josh Hawley's forthcoming book, THE TYRANNY OF BIG TECH. We did not come to this decision lightly. As a publisher it will always be our mission to amplify a variety of voice and viewpoints; at the same time we take seriously our larger public responsibility as citizens, and cannot support Senator Hawley after his role in what became a dangerous threat to our democracy and freedom.
Hawley responded with a statement of his own, which read:
This could not be more Orwellian. Simon & Schuster is canceling my contract because I was representing my constituents, leading a debate on the Senate floor on voter integrity, which they have now decided to redefine as sedition. Let me be clear, this is not just a contract dispute. It's a direct assault on the First Amendment. Only approved speech can now be published. This is the Left looking to cancel everyone they don't approve of. I will fight this cancel culture with everything I have. We'll see you in court.
Hawley, who was the first senator to declare he would object to some of Biden's electoral votes, has faced heavy criticism from both Democrats and Republicans for leading the charge in the upper chamber that was followed by roughly a dozen more GOP members who promised to contest the election results along with more than 100 House Republicans.
After the Capitol was sieged in an attack that caused lawmakers to flee the House and Senate chambers and left one protester fatally shot by a Capitol police officer, some Republicans changed their minds. Ultimately, the Electoral College votes were overwhelmingly approved.
Hawley stayed the course and contested the Electoral College votes in some states along with a handful of his colleagues, but the junior senator from Missouri has faced the harshest criticism for leading the charge in challenging the election results in the aftermath of the attack on the Capitol.
Popular former Missouri Sen. John Danforth (R) told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Thursday, "Supporting Josh and trying so hard to get him elected to the Senate was the worst mistake I ever made in my life."
The Kansas City Star's editorial board declared that Hawley "has blood on his hands."
When CNN asked Hawley Thursday whether President Donald Trump deserved any blame for the Capitol siege, the senator replied, "I don't think urging people to come to the Capitol was a good idea."
He added, "The responsibility of violent criminal acts is with violent criminals."
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