Trump to release 'book of letters' next year amid 2024 campaign - CNN

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Former President Donald Trump is readying to merchandise a publication adjacent twelvemonth showcasing his backstage correspondence with past and contiguous celebrities and planetary icons, CNN has learned.

Sources acquainted with the substance said the task volition reflector Trump’s archetypal post-White House book, a postulation of 300-plus photographs from Trump’s clip successful bureau that were accompanied by captions helium wrote himself. His newest publication volition incorporate reproductions of letters written to, oregon by, Trump implicit the past fewer decades, providing readers with a much intimate presumption into his backstage beingness and past societal circles.

Trump’s correspondence with singer-songwriter Elton John, the precocious entertainer Michael Jackson and the precocious Diana, Princess of Wales, are expected to beryllium included, sources said. In a lewd 1997 interrogation with daze jock Howard Stern that was unearthed during Trump’s 2016 statesmanlike campaign, Trump claimed that helium received a “really nice” missive from the precocious Princess of Wales thanking him for an undisclosed favor.

“She wrote maine a missive astir a mates of months earlier she died thanking maine ‘cause I did her a favour for something,” Trump told Stern. “She wrote maine a truly bully letter.”

It is unclear if the “book of letters,” arsenic aggregate sources described it, volition diagnostic immoderate of the letters Trump exchanged with Kim Jong Un during his pursuit of North Korea’s denuclearization. Trump has antecedently boasted of his “love letters” with the overseas dictator, erstwhile declaring astatine a run rally that helium and Kim Jong Un “fell successful love” done their written correspondence.

The letters were among a trove of authorities documents, including ones that contained classified markings, kept astatine Mar-a-Lago aft Trump near office, prompting the National Archives and Records Administration to question their return. A peculiar counsel appointed by the Justice Department is presently investigating Trump for his imaginable mishandling of classified documents and statesmanlike records.

Trump’s 2nd publication since leaving bureau is owed to beryllium published by Winning Team Publishing, an imprint launched by his eldest lad Don Jr. and erstwhile run advisor Sergio Gor, who declined to remark connected the project.

“We don’t person thing to denote yet,” Gor said.

The aforesaid publishing location was down “Our Journey Together,” the $75 hardcover postulation of photographs that Trump released past December. CNN antecedently reported that the publication grossed $20 million successful little than 2 months aft it went connected sale.

Trump aides said they expect his adjacent publication to beryllium conscionable arsenic lucrative, peculiarly owed to its overlap with his 3rd statesmanlike campaign.

“Sounds similar a money-maker for sure,” said 1 idiosyncratic adjacent to Trump.

A 2nd idiosyncratic adjacent to the erstwhile president said helium is improbable to people a memoir astir his presidency successful the adjacent future, peculiarly due to the fact that helium wants to hold for the 2024 rhythm to play out. In May, however, Winning Team Publishing appeared to suggest that Trump was moving connected a publication astir the 2020 election, which the erstwhile president has falsely insisted was stolen.

“NEW BOOK ALERT: CRIME OF THE CENTURY by President Donald J. Trump! More details coming soon,” the publishing location wrote successful a tweet.

Numerous different rumored 2024 Republican hopefuls person precocious released books oregon program to people successful the coming months. Among them are Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has an autobiography coming successful precocious February; Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, whose 3rd book, “Decades of Decadence” is owed retired successful June 2023; and erstwhile Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who volition merchandise a publication successful January and has publically admit helium is mulling a superior situation against Trump.