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Former president Barack Obama’s A Promised Land sold more than 1.7 million copies in North America in its first week — which is roughly the combined first-week sales of memoirs by his two immediate predecessors, and is among the highest ever for a non-fiction. But he told Stephen Colbert last night that he has “already waved the white flag” in the race to try and catch up with sales of his wife’s book.
According to The New York Times, as of November 2020, Michelle Obama’s Becoming has “sold 14 million copies worldwide, including more than 8 million in the U.S. and Canada”.
One question that has arisen is whether there will be any serious professional consequences for Trump’s legal team repeatedly making baseless claims that they cannot stand up in court. Jan Wolfe has looked at this for Reuters and the answer is probably not.
Rep. Bill Pascrell on Friday called for Rudy Giuliani and other members of Trump’s legal team to be stripped of their law licenses for bringing “frivolous” lawsuits, but legal ethics experts say attorney discipline is relatively rare, especially in politically charged disputes.
