Kushner's impressive sales, Dreher falls for fake news, Biden's prime time speech

Jared Kushner’s White House memoir debuted on the New York Times best seller list, selling 46,400 copies in its first week, according to figures obtained by Mediaite.

Breaking History: A White House Memoir, Kushner’s book chronicling his time as senior adviser to President Donald Trump, landed first on the Hardcover Nonfiction list.

Kushner’s 46,400 copies made Breaking History the best-selling memoir from a former Trump administration official since the end of his presidency.
Former Attorney General Bill Barr’s book One Damn Thing After Another sold 23,010 copies in its first week while Kellyanne Conway’s memoir Here’s The Deal sold 25,020 copies.

The book was released on Aug. 23, and Kushner promoted it everywhere from Newsmax TV to Fox News to Megyn Kelly’s daily podcast.

The book also received a boost from Trump, who mobilized his political action committee in support of the memoir in a series of fundraising emails to supporters.

The support from Trump’s campaign was apparently enough to earn Breaking History a dagger symbol (†), which the paper uses to note a book was buoyed by large orders.
Despite the impressive sales, Kushner's memoir was roundly slammed by critics, with New York Times' Dwight Garner likening the book to "watching a cat lick a dog’s eye goo."

Rod Dreher, a senior editor at The American Conservative, fell for a fake Jennifer Rubin tweet on Friday, later defending the gaffe in an attempt to apologize.
Dreher shared a screenshot of a tweet claiming to be from Rubin, which read, "Biden's Philadelphia speech met the moment. Mass arrests should come next."
"Saying the quiet part out loud (then quickly deleting it)," Dreher wrote alongside the image.
Rubin did not quickly delete her post, but actually never made the comment in the first place.
Dreher was informed the tweet never existed, prompting him to issue another statement on the matter in a follow up post.
"I just found out that that 'mass arrests' tweet purportedly by Jennifer Rubin was fake," he wrote. "I deleted it, and apologize to her."
Dreher could have just stopped there, taking accountability for the mistake and apologizing to Rubin for the inadvertent smear.
Instead, he defended his error, adding, "Still, the fact that so many [people] found it plausible says something."
Dreher was promptly mocked on Twitter.
"You can almost hear the 'you can’t make this stuff up amirite' in the first tweet about a thing that was, in fact, made up," cracked Gady Epstein.