Kash Patel’s Maga kids’ book is embarrassing. I should know – I’m a children’s author
The Plot Against the King, a thinly veiled take on the ‘stolen’ 2020 election, has a few hits and lots of misses
You don’t have to agree with someone’s politics to appreciate their writing. Roald Dahl was a terrible, antisemitic man, but he came up with a story about four grandparents who stay in bed 24/7 that gives us all something to aspire to.
So I was intrigued to find out that Donald Trump’s choice for FBI director, Kash Patel, wrote a trilogy of thinly veiled political children’s books called The Plot Against the King. The King is – you guessed it – Trump. And the plot? Well, we’ll get there.
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