In an internal email obtained by Reuters this week, a Trump Regime deputy assistant HHS secretary earlier this month suggested that the book “Donald Trump Biography for Kids: An Inspirational Story of One of America’s Most Famous Presidents” – plus another junior reader bio of murderous tyrant Andrew Jackson – should be included in a welcome packet for the children of Afrikaner refugees being granted asylum in the US from a fake genocide wrought by South Africa’s Black majority.
“I imagine these books wouldn’t be an issue?” RFK Jr minion Fred Cooper wrote in the internal email addressed to an unidentified other official. The price was not disclosed thought the book is listed for $12.95 in paperback or $23.95 hardcover on Amazon. The exact title of the Jackson book for children was not mentioned in the Reuters article so no ballpark of a price point could be made.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was incensed, tweeting “This should be a straight yes or no answer from the White House: are taxpayers paying for copies of this book to be handed out to Afrikaners?” Oops that was actually then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on April 26, 2021 tweeting “This should be a straight yes or no answer from the White House: are taxpayers paying for copies of the Vice President’s book to be handed out at migrant shelters?” after the New York Post reported that then-Vice President Kamala Harris’s children’s book “Superheroes Are Everywhere” was being added to every welcome pack for unaccompanied minor Latin American asylees.
Two days later the Post reporter, Lauren Italiano, announced that she had “handed in my resignation to my editors at the New York Post. The Kamala Harris story – an incorrect story I was ordered to write and which I failed to push back hard enough against – was my breaking point.” The Post then updated the story to reflect the reality that a single copy of Harris’s book, donated by a local family, had made its way into just one of hundreds of welcome packs prepared by Long Beach, California officials for new arrivals at a shelter in the city. “The original version of this article said migrant kids were getting Harris’s book in a welcome kit but has been updated to note that only one known copy of the book was given to a child,” the Post’s editors wrote at the bottom of the article.
Kevin McCarthy, who resigned two years ago this month after being deposed from the Speakership in a palace coup led by Matt Gaetz (who resigned a year later), has not deleted his tweet.