Former President Donald Trump thinks a children’s book featuring him as a king belongs in all American schools, HuffPost reports.
Trump took to the social network Truth Social, which Trump Media & Technology Group launched earlier this year, to hype Kash Patel’s The Plot Against the King.
“Let’s put this amazing book in every school in America,” he wrote. “Big tech should not get to suppress the truth.”
Patel’s book, illustrated by Laura Vincent, was published last month by Brave Books, a company that says its “goal is to equip parents with a tool box full of books that will provide a conservative alternative to the current cultural activism that our children are being taught in school.”
“Hillary Queenton and her shifty knight had spread lies that King Donald had cheated to become King,” Brave Books says on a webpage for the book. “They claimed he was working with the Russionians! But how could that be? Join Kash, the Distinguished Discoverer as he uncovers the plot against the King, and who was really behind all the lies.”
Patel is a Trump supporter who worked in the administration as a National Security Council staffer and a deputy to the Acting Director of National Intelligence. The Plot Against the King is his first children’s book.
“I believe it is important for everyone to know the true story behind the Steele Dossier, and the Russian collusion narrative,” he wrote on Brave Books’ website. “This book is one way I'm doing my part to share the truth.”
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
