Gavin Newsom Used $1.5 Million in PAC Donor Cash To Buy 67,000 Copies of His Own Book
By Donald
If you ever wondered how Gavin Newsom became a “bestselling author,” the answer just landed. And it’s about as authentic as everything else the California governor does.
According to new reporting, Newsom’s political action committee quietly spent over $1.5 million in donor cash to purchase roughly 67,000 copies of his own memoir. That accounts for about two-thirds of the book’s total sales. Let that sink in. The man had to buy his own book to make it look like people wanted to read it.
The book is called “Young Man in a Hurry.” And apparently the only thing in a hurry was Newsom’s PAC, racing to inflate his sales numbers before anyone noticed.
New York Times reporter Shane Goldmacher was the first to break down the numbers:
Read those numbers again. Out of 97,400 total copies sold, about 67,000 came through Newsom’s own PAC giveaway. That means only around 30,000 copies were purchased by actual readers who voluntarily walked into a bookstore or clicked “buy” on Amazon.