Title it something like Truth Over Triumph: The Inside Story of One Man's Integrity Vs A Tsunami of Power and Hate trying to reframe it as 'ends can never ever justify the means'
And then a few wealthy people (Pence included) will bulk-buy 50k-75k books in week one on sale, store them in some huge empty warehouse
NYT will receive 100% shady sales figures directly from author/publisher via dark (unverified) reporting lines (hey, maybe Dominion is in publishing too!)
NYT grants bestseller status
Publisher gets fat bonuses
30 Pence gets his last real cash, but much more importantly (for the narrative, of course), starts a 2-3 year PR/media tour to convince everyone that it took career-suicide level "guts" to publicly defy the leader of the free world
5 years later someone blows whistle on massive fake sales of a fictional nonfiction memoir, but no one believes or cares, even when the warehouse is found with never-opened cases of mint condition books...bc 'Trump and Russia colluded to put them there'
That's the sound of your future going down the shitter Mike.
This right here. Some dumb publisher will:
spot on. These "book deals" are just another way to legally bribe people.