This is a very important, timely and recommended book, especially if you are a US patriot preparing to vote by Nov. 3 and are concerned about reelecting the President!
It is important because no other Donald Trump "tell-all" book has been written by a lawyer who served closely for a dozen years, until 2018, as Trump's main confidante and fixer. As Trump and most clients know, if you really want a lawyer's help, you have to disclose to him fully all material facts and client objectives to get actionable advice.
For example, you can listen firsthand to Trump's recorded remarks to Cohen and reliance on Cohen's advice by simply "googling" --- Michael Cohen Donald Trump Tape --- about Trump's desperate efforts just before the 2016 elections to hide, illegally, his porn star cover-up payoffs from his betrayed base and his supine spouse, Melania.
This book is timely because it may be the last chance for millions in Trump's betrayed base to face facts and to avoid being Donald's "losers and suckers" a second time --- Trump's Chumps in spades. In his first term, Trump promised much, but delivered little, other than to his most wealthy supporters. He has instead delivered to his base and to most Americans an out-of-control pandemic, an economic depression and weakened national security that will all only get worse if Trump retains power, legally of otherwise.
A list of some of his many failed 2016 promises are available by simply "googling" --- trump-promises-check -- .
The fact is that this economy just isn’t working for most Americans, who are facing very hard times that are just getting more unbearable — thanks to four years of self-interested political decisions by Trump and his spineless Republican allies. For a fuller, but brief, look at the dismal prospects for most Americans if Trump is reelected, simply "google" --- Gross Domestic Misery Is Rising --- .
As Trump's well-respected co-author of "Art of the Deal" indicated recently, Trump really views his gullible base voters as "losers and suckers", yet many of them still blindly follow him to their increasing personal detriment. Indeed, Cohen writes in this book about the Trumpian view of his base: “The cosmic joke {after the 2016 election} was that Trump convinced a vast swath of working-class white folks in the Midwest that he cared about their well-being .... The truth was that he couldn’t care less.”
Even Trump's Christian base were conned. They have forgotten Jesus' warning in Matt 7:15 about the likes of Trump, “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves." Donald, in his phony "I made my fortune on my own" disguise, could surely teach some wolves how to be even more ravenous, no?
Cohen is hardly a likeable guy, to be sure. While Cohen's own self admissions of lying earlier and often for Trump may give some readers pause, it is evident to me, however, as an experienced lawyer and former high school chum of Rudy Giuliani, that Cohen's disclosures in this book of Trump's continuous corruption, etc., are mainly credible, especially since AG Bill Barr hovers over Cohen's book disclosures and can be expected to return Cohen to solitary confinement again if he lies in this book .
Speaking of "jailing" Cohen, my Harvard Law mentor, Archibald Cox, who later as Watergate Prosecutor backed jailing almost 50 of Nixon's Republican accomplices, would be astonished by the one-man crime wave that is our current President. That said, it is also evident that many more than 50 of Trump's accomplices, including Barr, Guiliani, Pence, McConnell, McCarthy, Ryan, Pompeo, Mnuchin, Azar, Conway, Hicks, DeJoy, et al., personally fear a comprehensive post-election criminal investigation, by a judicially appointed independent counsel, of Trump's unprecedented wrongdoings that they appear to have aided and abetted for their personal benefit from all indications.
Significantly, Cohen states in the book: "In some ways, I knew him {Trump} better than even his family did because I bore witness to the real man, in strip clubs, shady business meetings, and in the unguarded moments when he revealed who he really was: a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man." Cohen covers in detail the "good, the bad and the ugly", and substantiates ad nauseum his many accusations against Trump.
More recently, Cohen indicated to NBC's Lester Holt that Trump will do anything, including rigging the 2020 election and even having the USA go to war, to help win reelection. Only by winning reelection can Trump even hope to head off some of the likely criminal prosecutions that he and his many Republican aiders and abettors are already at significant risk of.
Trump knows well his remaining choice is likely between spending more years in the White House or the rest of his life in prison! If Trump were to live in the White House to 2024, he knows he can before then try to follow his pal, Putin's example and seek to become President for life. Or he may seek to try to get one of his untalented children elected in 2024. These ineffective and unprincipled children have shown that these apples do not fall far from the tree, notwithstanding the cruel and shameful behavior Trump has publicly exhibited to their mothers.
Cohen's numerous and colorful descriptions of Trump's nonstop political, business and personal misbehavior just confirm the recently reported assessments of Trump's older sister, longtime Federal Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, and his niece, psychologist, Dr. Mary Trump. Their reported assessment is that Trump is, and at least as an adult always has been, in effect, an unprincipled, cruel, unfeeling and unreformable liar and con man obsessed with winning power and making money --- no matter who gets hurt.
The overlapping comments of Cohen and Donald's sister and niece confirm to me that the best way to understand Donald's past behavior, and to predict his future behavior, is to determine what strategies he may think will advance his personal interests the most, even if the strategies are unlawful and may continue to harm seriously millions of Americans suffering from illness and poverty. He wants to stay out of jail, even at any cost to others!
Mary Trump, recently when asked on TV about her response to the recent "Atlantic" article reporting on Trump's shameful and unpatriotic trashing of the military and of veterans as "losers and suckers", responded by saying of her uncle, “Anybody who is surprised by Donald’s comments is once again letting him off the hook when he has time after time demonstrated himself to be nothing but an anti-American, anti-military traitor to this country.” "Traitor", WOW, but unsurprising!
Trump's constant aiding of Putin, which Cohen helps explain more fully as based a lot on Trump's greed and jealousy, really is a betrayal of the USA. Russia has been the USA's most dangerous enemy for over 75 years, but Trump seems determined to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, no matter what the military security harm to the USA and to all Americans!
This book reports on so many of Trump's misdeeds, many of which are reported for the first time, while others previously reported on are described often in greater detail. What is most important, however, is that Cohen was often an "eyewitness", if not a "co-perpetrator", of the misdeeds!
So why does this book matter so much? It matters because it, in effect, is a stark warning of what further irreparable harm Trump can and likely will do if he is reelected this November without any need to control himself for another election in 2024! Even if you, as an American citizen, personally survive this pandemic, depression and foreign subversion, will you survive the next pandemic, depression or foreign subversion under a "liberated" Trump? Please think about this!
Even with a safe and effective Covid vaccine, Trump has so confused Americans by his lies about, and mismanagement of, the pandemic, that it is now uncertain whether the needed number of Americans will take the vaccine to avoid future widespread outbreaks in the USA and abroad. To be sure, the tens of thousands of Americans who have already died, and will continue to die, significantly because Trump set a bad example and avoided wearing a facemask that might harm his hairdo, will be forever lost.
Interestingly, Cohen was appointed to the Republican Finance Committee by Trump, along with other "only the best" promised by Trump: Steve Wynn, Elliot Broidy and Louis DeJoy.
Wynn was forced to resign from his RNC post following sexual misconduct allegations.
Elliott Broidy, who raised millions for Trump’s inaugural, reportedly may be charged soon with violating foreign lobbying laws for his efforts on behalf of China to get the Chinese, Guo Wengui, extradited to China.
Louis DeJoy, the nation's current postmaster general, who appears to be helping Trump sabotage pre-election the US postal system, is also facing serious criminal law questions about his key employees' contributions to Trump's 2016 campaign. Three times as many Democrats are expected to vote by mail, so Trump wants to disenfranchise them at all costs, even by burying their ballots in overload bins until after the election.
Cohen claims that "Donald Trump's presidency is a product of the free press, ... . Not free as in freedom of expression, I mean free as unpaid for. Rallies broadcast live, tweets, press conferences, idiotic interviews, 24-7 wall-to-wall coverage, all without spending a penny. The free press gave America Trump... Right, left, moderate, tabloid, broadsheet, television, radio, Internet, Facebook -- that is who elected Trump and might well elect him again." Some truth to that, no?
A bipartisan group of over 100 current and former senior government and campaign leaders and other experts recently issued a comprehensive analysis of how Trump can unlawfully try to stay in power even if he loses in the November election. Every US patriot and voter should read at least the short summary of this report simply by "googling"---preventing+a+disrupted+presidential+election+and+transition ---.
Cohen's unprecedented book makes it clear that all Americans should vote as soon as legally possible and should also do their best to get their relatives and friends to vote soon as well. All of their lives and livelihoods truly may hang in the balance!
As important as removing Trump, though, voters need as well to remove in this election all Republican candidates for the US Senate and House, as well as Republican candidates for governor and for all state legislatures. The next US president, Congress and each state governor and legislature will promptly need, by new laws and also when necessary, by new amendments to the US Constitution, to make sure the likes of Trump are never elected again.
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Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump
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Michael Cohen’s, “Disloyal”
Michael Cohen’s “Disloyal” is all at once a riveting exposé and thrilling memoir. Cohen takes us deep into the mind of the power of a demagogue and the influence he has towards both his witting enablers, and the unwitting blind adoration from those aptly referred to as the Trump Cult. Make no mistake about it, Michael Cohen takes personal responsibility for his years of dirty deeds for Donald Trump. Mr. Cohen offers no personal excuses for his past culpability. Cohen simply presents to us the unvarnished truth. This unvarnished truth often reflects Michael in a bad light, but he presents to us the complete whole picture so that the public is aptly warned about the threat that Donald Trump, his sycophants and cultists continue to pose to our nation. More than simply an exposé or a personal memoir, “Disloyal” is a clarion call for the nation. As Donald Trump’s legal problems continue to mount and indictments near for himself, family members and associates, his rash outbursts are inevitably going to increase. Fortunately for the nation, he no longer has the power of the presidency and the federal government at his disposal. Still, the sad spectacle of Trump’s insurrection on January 6 shows the threat that remains. This real-life story is part of Mr. Cohen’s path towards redemption. In other words, a part of his mea culpa.The power of the Trump Cult is real and has ruined countless friends and family relationships. Despite Donald Trump being out of office, the power of this cultish influence continues to exacerbate among Trump’s most devout and faithful believers. Mr. Cohen took this to another level and provides these details with frank honest assessments and self-reflection. Spending time in a federal prison facility in New York named Otisville, Michael reflects on all the good times and bad; and the fact that he sold his soul completely and wholly to a con man who didn’t deserve his unwavering loyalty. This one-way loyalty resulted in not only a prison sentence for Mr. Cohen, but ended up hurting the ones he loved most. Serving a prison sentence for crimes committed on behalf of Individual-1 AKA Donald Trump, Cohen ended up hurting the people he most loved and cherished: his wife Laura and his two children Samantha and Jake. This is not to even mention his father who survived the Holocaust to see Michael having gone so far down that proverbial rabbit hole that he defended Mr. Trump on the campaign trail from allegations of racism by invoking his father’s harrowing survival during the Holocaust. For all this, Michael remains eternally in shame to those who loved him most and stuck with him through the good and bad. To the rest of us, Michael provides a redemption story of sorts. Mr. Cohen through documentation and his lived experience reveals the unvarnished Trump. In this way, the public along with federal and state prosecutors have the information that is needed so that history records Donald Trump as the individual whose dirty deeds don’t go unpunished.Donald Trump’s corruption and debauchery are even more lurid and depraved that one can imagine. Living in the world of Trump, often reality and lies intertwined with Trump and his sycophants; blending reality and falsehoods where neither one completely existed on their own. In reflecting on this, one must look no further than the present day. Donald Trump’s Big Lie continues unabated as he peddles falsehoods and lies about his defeat to President Joe Biden. Mr. Cohen provides us with the prime motivations: Trump’s sociopathic narcissism and his fear of imprisonment. Additionally, the details of Trump’s obsessive manic jealousy of President Barack Obama that Mr. Cohen provides to us compels one to reconsider the possibility of the infamous ‘pee tape’ that has been discussed in comedy shows as revealed to the general public via the Steele dossier. The rumors of the existence of such a recording did not originate from the aforementioned dossier. In fact, it goes years back originating from what seems to be individuals affiliated with Russian oligarchs. Take a journey with Michael to Las Vegas in which Donald Trump attended a similar function hosted by none other than the Agalarov family. The same father and son Russian oligarchs who years later would host the Miss Universe pageant that took place in Moscow. The same family who set up the infamous Trump Tower meeting with a Russian government attorney who promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton. It was during this aforementioned Moscow trip in which it was rumored that Donald Trump out of spite and jealousy hired prostitutes to urinate on the same Ritz Carlton bed that President Obama spent a night during his presidency. One might dismiss such a lurid tale, but Michael describes in detail the story of the fake Obama that Donald Trump hired so that he could pretend play in demeaning and then firing him. The sociopathic depravity of Donald Trump has no bottom; and we must fully be aware of the threat that the power of the Trump Cult presents to this very day. In fact, Michael has had to live with continued death threats aimed against him and his family to instill fear on those who dare to speak out. Despite these threats, Mr. Cohen has committed to speaking truth to power in the hopes of redeeming himself in the eyes of his family, his country, and for recorded history. As Michael often says, he will not be the villain in Donald Trump’s story. History will be recorded accordingly.Michael Cohen was not only Donald Trump’s personal attorney; in reality he was Trump’s fixer who did all things big and small with unwavering loyalty. In acknowledging his years of sycophancy and dirty deeds for the so-called ex-President, we must also acknowledge the fact that there would be no legal accountability on the horizon for Donald Trump were it not for Mr. Cohen. Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony and his cooperation with both federal and New York State prosecutors has brought us to a place in which accountability for Donald Trump & his crime family are on the horizon. As we speak, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance and New York State Attorney General Letitia James have active grand jury investigations that are likely to result in the indictment of Donald J. Trump. Mr. Cohen could have taken the path that others like Paul Manafort and Roger Stone took as they remained silent and continued to lie for Trump resulting in their subsequent pardons. To paraphrase Mr. Cohen, Donald Trump must be held accountable for his own dirty deeds.
