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Dahleen Glanton: Former staffers keep writing books about how inept Donald Trump is. We shouldn't buy books from cowards

It seems pretty easy for just about anyone who has dropped by Donald Trump's White House to get a lucrative book deal. Any insight into the inner workings of the Trump administration is golden, even if the person providing it only lasted a few days.

By the end of his first term, at least 20 books will have been written about Trump's political dealings, several of them by former Washington insiders, including staff members, FBI officials, politicians, advisers and journalists.

The latest former official to pen a tell-all book is John Bolton, Trump's third national security adviser in three

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