Formerly fat former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s “Champion American Values PAC” reported a $42,000 purchase of “mementos – books” the same day his memoir “Never Give An Inch: Fighting for the America I Love” went on sale in bookstores, according to FEC filings viewed by Forbes.
Now Forbes doesn’t know if it was definitely $42,000 worth of copies of “Never Give An Inch.” It could have been for a few pallets of “Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets” or even “Beautiful Things” by Hunter Biden. They do however report that Pompeo’s probably ghostwritten snore-fest debuted at number 3 on the New York Times’s non-fiction bestseller list with an asterisk added to indicate that retailers reported bulk purchases of the book. “Even the New York Times admits that my new book is a must-read!” Pompeo’s PAC trumpeted in a Facebook ad. The New York Times never actually reviewed the book and thus never characterized it as a “must-read.”
Like with Mike Pence and his PAC’s $91,000 bulk memoir purchase, there’s no proscription against Pompeo personally profiting from the royalties of the book “sales,” as he is not currently an officially declared candidate for any federal office and was not when the purchase was made last month.