Wave of pro-Trump books coming in summer and fall

NEW YORK – In a year dominated by such anti-Trump best-sellers as “Fire and Fury” and “A Higher Loyalty,” a conservative counter-wave is growing.

Over the next few months, at least half a dozen pro-Trump and/or antiRussian investigation books are scheduled. They range from insider accounts by former White House officials Sean Spicer and Anthony Scaramucci, both of whom have defended President Donald Trump despite their tumultuous times in Washington, to books from such Fox News regulars as Jeanine Pirro, Alan Dershowitz and former Rep. Jason Chaffetz. Several of the upcoming releases serve as a publishing arm to the Trump-led attack against special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into his campaign’s Russia ties.

“I think you have various books seeking to be the anti-‘Fire and Fury,’ ” says Eric Nelson, editorial director of Broadside Books, a conservative imprint of HarperCollins Publishers that is releasing Chaffetz’s “The Deep State: How an Army of Bureaucrats Protected Barack Obama and Is Working to Destroy Donald Trump” and Gregg Jarrett’s “The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump.”

None of the upcoming works are likely to approach the popularity of “Fire and Fury,” the Michael Wolff blockbuster that has sold over 1 million copies, or James Comey’s “A Higher Loyalty,” which has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Comey, the FBI director whom Trump fired last year, described the president as “unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values.” Wolff’s book made headlines with a quote from former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, who labeled as “treasonous” a decision by Donald Trump Jr. and others to meet in the summer of 2016 with a Russian attorney claiming to have incriminating information about Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee.

But sales have been solid for proTrump releases, some promoted on Fox and other conservative outlets, and by the president himself. According to NPD BookScan, which tracks around 85 percent of print sales, Corey Lewandowski’s and David Bossie’s “Let Trump Be Trump” has sold more than 100,000 copies since coming out last December,