For weeks, it was clear that President Donald Trump's loyalists within both chambers of Congress would object to the certification of the Electoral College results for the 2020 Presidential Election.
Among them was Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri and like his similarly-minded colleagues, his rationale for doing so concerned the president's frequent accusations of widespread voter fraud that neither he nor his allies have presented substantial evidence for.
But as The Guardian reported, these conspiracy theories and their repetition among certain Republican politicians have been described by their colleagues and by President-Elect Joe Biden as inciting the Wednesday riot that saw a large-scale security breach take place at the U.S. Capitol and resulted in the deaths of five people.
And based on their most recent business decision, it's clear that publisher Simon & Schuster agrees with this assessment.