I ask you to remember the context in which this exists. It’s an attempt to consider whether Kamala Harris will ever be unburdened by what has been over the last few months, to become what she thinks she can be. Does Harris really believe her future includes electoral success — or does she need to roll down her sleeves and get a golden parachute?
According to the Daily Mail, the gold for that parachute is ripe for the taking:
Kamala Harris, who bizarrely blew through a record $1.5 billion on her failed presidential campaign, may soon earn some big-bucks payback.
Top publishers, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively, are willing to pay the soon-to-be former vice president and twice-failed Democratic presidential hopeful a whopping advance of as much as $20 million for an inside look at President Joe Biden’s, 82, White House and presidential campaign tell-all.
That kind of gold comes at a price, however. Book publishers don’t want Harris’ idea of inspirational word salads, nor a campaign biography that might be titled That Little Girl Was Me, even though it wasn’t. Harris has already told those biographical stories ad nauseam especially in the context of painting herself as someone who “grew up in a middle-class family.”
The only way that Harris will get to the big money is to burn bridges she would need to run for any future run for office. Or, to put it another way — does Harris want to be unburdened of what might be?
A prominent executive at one of New York’s top liberal-leaning publishing houses told DailyMail.com: ‘More than anyone in the Biden White House, Kamala as the number two, and then as Joe Biden‘s campaign successor after he dropped out of the race, knows all the secrets, knows where all the skeletons are buried.[“] …
Still, publishers investing a small fortune in a Kamala Harris tell-all expect her to ‘tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth,’ according to a top Washington D.C. literary agent who has represented and sold bestselling books by prominent political figures to leading publishers.
‘Kamala needs to forget all the campaign bulls**t that was spewed on her side, and honestly tell everything about the true nature of her relationship with Biden, and what role, if any, she played in forcing him to drop out of the race,’ the agent told DailyMail.com.
He continued: ‘She has to be honest about what went on between her and Biden regarding the controversial withdrawal from Afghanistan and was she aware that he was lying to the American public and the mainstream media when he said numerous times he wouldn’t pardon his son, Hunter, and then shockingly did so.
So that’s the choice Harris faces. Does she really believe that she can win any future election, or even a Democrat primary, for significant office? If she does, then Harris can’t afford to burn her party with the truth about Biden — and especially about his cognitive decline in office:
‘And most importantly,’ said the source, ‘she needs to explain who were the real puppet masters during the past four years of the Biden-Harris administration – who was really making the important decisions. Was it the far Left, and why, and she’d be expected to name names.
Book publishers aren’t likely to part with retirement-level cash just to have Harris regurgitate the “sharp as a tack” propaganda, either. We have a glut of that product already from the last three years, all of which have been discredited by the June 27 debate and which now even Democrats refuse to buy.
Why would that disqualify Kamala? Because telling the truth about Biden in an “inside story” fashion would necessarily implicate all of the Democrats who covered up the truth and defrauded Americans. And more than that, it would also require Harris to identify the people who really made the decisions during Biden’s presidency. To tell that story would be to indict the party’s leadership and likely no small number of its donors and consultants — and, of course, Harris herself most of all. After all, Harris was the only other constitutional officeholder in the administration and the one person who could have and should have acted when Biden’s incapacity became known.
And on that note too, Harris kept the cover-up going even after the June 27 debate became known. She insisted that Biden was still sharp as a tack and completely in charge all the way through the election. To say otherwise now would be to expose herself as an abject liar in defense of the indefensible. That would end any hope she might have for elective office, even if she had any hope to lose at this point.
So … the gold would come at a cost. Plus, there’s another issue here too, which is that Harris will have to decide very quickly which path to choose. After all, Harris isn’t the only one in the Biden White House who knows the answers to the questions that book publishers want to exclusively reveal to the public. Some others might have an axe to grind with Democrat Party leadership too, including Harris herself. They also know that the first one past the finish line will get the big money. Harris would be the most important voice among that crowd, but that doesn’t make her the only person who can profit off of the disaster of the last four years.
What will Harris choose? She probably considers herself the heir apparent for 2028, even if no one else takes that seriously, but even that is not the real conundrum. Someone will start ratting out the malefactors at some point and likely sooner than later, given the stakes involved. Harris can either get ahead of that by seizing the narrative or end up getting painted as a conspirator in a Constitution-defying power play … or the idiot who allowed it to happen. If Harris has the slightest self-awareness, she’d take the money and attempt to spin the blame onto others as soon as possible, rather than maintain the illusion that she has any chance at high office in the future. That’s a mighty big if, however.
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