Quick Glance: Simon & Schuster: Publisher sold for $1.6bn
- Simon & Schuster showcased at the London Book Fair in 2023
- The deal with investor KKR marks the likely end of a years-long saga for owner Paramount Global, which had been searching for a buyer for the book company since 2020.
- KKR stated that the publisher will continue to operate independently.
- Author Stephen King was among the notable figures opposing the sale on behalf of the US government, which has taken a tougher stance on competition under President Joe Biden.
Quick Glance: Trump sues journalist Bob Woodward over interview tapes
- Trump threatened to sue Woodward over the audiobook when it was released in October.
- Trump told Fox News host Brian Kilmeade, "We gave tapes for the written word, not tapes to sell,"
- The tapes include 20 interviews with Trump on topics ranging from the COVID pandemic to international diplomacy.
- The book, which is based on interviews Woodward conducted with President Donald Trump, was released today.
Quick Glance: Trump's hush money case in New York goes to a grand jury on Monday.
- A grand jury is hearing evidence in New York about former President Donald Trump's role in hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign, according to two sources familiar with the situation.
- According to Reuters, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified before the grand jury.
- According to the Wall Street Journal, Pecker, AMI's former CEO and a longtime friend of Trump and Cohen, told prosecutors about their hush-money deals with McDougal and Daniels before Trump's 2016 U.S. election victory.
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Quick Glance: Woodward to produce audiobook with "9 hours of Trump interviews"
- The unreleased conversations, according to Woodward, offer "an amazing portrait of a man" who has a "absence of being concerned about the people out there."
- "I'm going through, now, nine hours of Trump interviews I did, that were not published, we're going to put out an audio book, Simon & Schuster, of nine hours of Trump that we have never heard before," Woodward stated on MSNBC's Morning Joe.
- Since George H.W. Bush, Woodward has written biographies of every president.
- Most recently, Woodward's "Peril" disclosed significant fresh revelations concerning the Trump White House's inner workings.