Publisher sues Mark Meadows to recover advance, seeks $1 million more in damages for alleged lies in memoir

Former President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff’s alleged “falsehoods” in his memoirs sparked a seven-figure lawsuit from the publisher after the book was pulled from shelves.

In December 2021, All Seasons Publishing (ASP) published Mark Meadows’ memoir, “The Chief’s Chief,” documenting the tumultuous final year of the Trump administration, navigating the challenges of COVID and post-election. On Friday, a day after releasing the book they said sold 60,000 of the initial 200,000 printings, the publisher filed a lawsuit against the author for alleged breach of contract.

Filed in Sarasota County Court, Florida, Associated Press detailed that ASP is after the $350,000 advance issued to Meadows along with $1 million in costs and damages based on his testimony regarding the results of the 2020 presidential election.

“Meadows’ reported statements to the special counsel and/or his staff and his grand jury testimony clearly contradict the statements in his book,” the lawsuit alleged, “a central theme of which is that President Trump was the real winner of 2020. presidential election and that election was “stolen” and “rigged” with the help of “liberal media allies,” who ignored “real evidence of fraud, in plain sight for anyone to analyze -les”, which led to the illegal election of President. Trump”.

The former North Carolina congressman, a co-defendant in Trump’s Georgia and federal legal battles related to the 2020 election, reportedly accepted an immunity deal from special counsel Jack Smith.

From that came reports that Meadows “informed Smith’s team that he repeatedly told Trump in the weeks after the 2020 presidential election that allegations of major vote fraud coming to them were baseless, a break surprising of Trump’s prolific election rhetoric,” ABC. The news had detailed.

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That testimony contrasted sharply with a chapter in the memoir, titled “The Long Con” that began “I KNEW HE DIDN’T LOSE,” the lawsuit noted, and ASP stated, “If these media reports are accurate, Meadows testified under oath that his book contains known falsehoods”.

Also noted in the lawsuit was the fact that the publisher was made aware of concerns about possible “inaccuracies” just before publication and that they withheld $116,666 from the advance while they investigated.

Meadows’ attorney’s son, Blake Meadows, had responded: “Mr. Meadows is aware of the misleading allegations that were published about a portion of the book being taken out of context and that have already been addressed both by Mr. Meadows as well as by former President Trump in various press releases.

The AP noted of the lawsuit, “The All Seasons case is unusual both because it is based on media reports, not direct knowledge of Meadows’ testimony, and because it is based on alleged factual errors. Publishers rarely they proofread manuscripts, relying instead on authors to verify what they have written, and are much more likely to object to a book because of plagiarism or the author’s personal conduct.”

The reason for the low sales had been attributed to Meadows’ willingness to cooperate as a witness in the investigations against Trump after which “public interest in the book, the truth of which was increasingly in doubt, decrease precipitously…”.

Reacting to the lawsuit, a spokesman for the former chief of staff he said CNBC via email: “This is a lawsuit based on publicly disputed news from an anonymous source. It should be treated as such.”

Staff writer

A native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College, where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and seeker of truth, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and dog, and when he’s not researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel ·the.

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