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The $28M to Melania personally is the tell. Amazon could've made this documentary for $5M and marketed it for $10M and still gotten whatever political cover they wanted. Instead they structured a deal where most of the money flows directly to the president's wife. That's not sloppy negotiating, that's the point. Someone at Amazon legal signed off on creating a paper trail that looks exactly like what it is.




Wait until they buy her book and sell it for free on Amazon

From Webster's 1913:

Sell: To transfer to another for an equivalent; to give up for a valuable consideration; to dispose of in return for something, especially for money.

Selling, even for free, implies demand.



I was attempting to say that it's impossible to sell something that has zero demand.

i.e. you can't "sell" something when you can't even give it away.




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