"Support the Right Thing": Co-founder of Melville House publishes Jack Smith and Tulsa Reports | Books

one US Press has decided to release official reports on sensitive matters in the political and historical context of the new Donald Trump administration, which is committed to reshaping the radical right-wing agenda of the U.S. government and opposing opponents, especially Be vigorously aggressive in the media.

Publisher Melville House will release the Jack Smith Report on Tuesday, a special counsel’s printed and e-book version of him for Donald Trump ( Donald Trump's investigation into the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

Later in February, the company will release another report, with Trump sending the Justice Department shortly before the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

Dennis Johnson, co-founder of Melville House, and his wife Valerie Merians, said Jack Smith's report will not be published much, "It's just a report, we're just reprinting. We're not doing anything. We're not adding anything before and after. We don't have a celebrity introduction or anything else. We just want it to speak on its own."

But he also described the urgent need to publish a physical copy, which, given Trump's efforts to retaliate against prosecutors working for Smith and FBI agents, investigated the January 6 attack on the Congressional attack.

Johnson said the same thing about Tulsa’s report, which was dispelling the driving force of diversity, equity and inclusion policies, which led to the disappearance of official online resources related to racism and the history of civil rights.

Johnson has previously published federal reports, achieving significant sales for the CIA Torture Report (2014) and the Mueller Report (2019), which involves Russian election interventions and links between Trump and Moscow.

Johnson said Melville House has always been "mission-oriented" and described a "company formed as a minor but sincerely trying to defend George Bush's (election)".

Still, after Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris in November, Johnson and his staff found themselves “just stuck in a stumbling block. We had no idea… We just felt completely defeated… …Then the report about Jack Smith came. When we heard about the two or three months of bed and dazed, we immediately thought we should do it.”

Smith was appointed in the Biden administration in November 2022. He investigated “whether anyone or entity violated laws related to efforts to interfere with legal transfer of power after the 2020 presidential election” and Trump retained confidential documents after leaving power.

Ultimately, Smith filed four criminal charges related to election subversion, and 40 criminal charges regarding keeping confidential records. Trump pleaded not guilty, but his lawyer and compliant Florida judge received delays, meaning there were no cases to be tried until November.

Smith ended the case after Trump's election victory. Before Trump regained power, the Justice Department released the first part of Smith's report, covering his work on Trump's election subversion. The second part, about Trump retaining confidential information, is still being kept confidential.

Melville House has moved quickly. This kind of "crash publishing" requires hard work and help from printers, retailers, and more, Johnson said. But Jack Smith's report is "a very different from the last time we were in trouble in 2016. People are very scared.

“We did the Mueller Report and there were two other important publications. There were Simon and Schuster, one of the largest publishers in the world, and Skyhorse, It's standalone, but much bigger than us…but we put the book on the bestseller list.

"We know this won't happen this time because the big house we guessed was frightened - don't want any sad feeling in the White House. Trump has informed Penguin that he will sue them for one they published last year Key Biography (Lucky Loser, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner. (Now Trump’s Health Secretary nominee) So we know he won’t (Smith’s Report). So we will have our own field, which is great.”

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“I think there is an independent world of booksellers who are eager to support this kind of talking thing, somehow representing the right thing.”

The Justice Department spent more than 100 years properly investigating the Tulsa Genocide, one of the most unjust plots in American history, when Greenwood, Oklahoma ( Greenwood), a thriving black community was destroyed and hundreds were killed. By the White Mob.

No charges were filed. Under Joe Biden, a cold case unit in the Department of Justice’s civil rights division was named after Emmett Till, a case after Emmett Till Named, a black teenager who was murdered by white people in Mississippi. Tulsa's report was released on January 10. Ten days later, Trump regained power - and announced a comprehensive change in the civil rights sector.

Johnson called the new Tulsa report "disgusting and snatching," "We went to the Library of Congress and found photos that might have been part of the initial report when the Holocaust happened, and the FBI's predecessor did, investigated it Report criticized. They added the information, but only a few pictures were needed to illustrate this. They were just devastating aerial shots. Just like Munich in World War II. Hiroshima. Total destruction."

Johnson hopes his version of Jack Smith and Tulsa's report will find a location in "library and classrooms" as well as in the house. He said when he was a boy he knew “the Pentagon paperback was at home, they probably had the Warren Commission and then there was the Starr report. I hope people think these reports are part of the U.S. history record. .”