Disloyal A Memoir; The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to the President of the United States

Michael Cohen (Interior photographs) New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2020. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 432 pages. Illustrations. Michael Dean Cohen (born August 25, 1966) is an American former lawyer who served as an attorney for former U.S. president Donald Trump from 2006 to 2018. Cohen was a vice-president of the Trump Organization, and the personal counsel to Trump, and was often described by media as Trump's "fixer". He served as co-president of Trump Entertainment and was a board member of the Eric Trump Foundation, a children's health charity. From 2017 to 2018, Cohen was deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee. On December 12, 2018, Cohen was sentenced to three years in federal prison and ordered to pay a $50,000 fine after pleading guilty to tax evasion and campaign-finance violations. On February 26, 2019, he was disbarred from practicing law in the state of New York by the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division. He reported to the federal prison near Otisville, New York, on May 6, 2019. Trump employed Cohen until May 2018, a year after the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections began. The investigation led Cohen to plead guilty on August 21, 2018, to eight counts including campaign finance violations, tax fraud, and bank fraud. Cohen said he violated campaign-finance laws at the direction of Trump and "for the principal purpose of influencing" the 2016 presidential election. In November 2018, Cohen entered a second guilty plea for lying to a Senate committee about efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Derived from a Kirkus review: Consider everything bad you’ve heard about Donald Trump. Quadruple it, and you have a sense of where this book begins. Not since John Dean’s Blind Ambition have we seen a political mea culpa as thoroughgoing as this one. Like a Mafia chief, Cohen asserts, Trump “wouldn’t mind if I were dead,” and plenty of Trump cultists would be glad to do the hit—or, in the case of Matt Gaetz, he alleges, at least commit blackmail. Cohen’s transgression? To cooperate with the Mueller investigation, which “was not a witch-hunt,” since Trump gladly courted “Russian connivance” in the 2016 election. Cohen enabled this and many other crimes and misdemeanors. At their very first encounter, he recalls, Trump lied to him “directly, demonstrably and without doubt.” He swallowed it because he wanted a taste of the “intoxicating cocktail of power, strength, celebrity, and a complete disregard for the rules and realities that govern our lives.” By Cohen’s account, it was his idea that Trump run for president in both 2012 and 2016, though Trump shied from the former race because he feared Barack Obama, whom he hated with a passion. Trump’s “unhinged Archie Bunker racism” defines him, writes Cohen, as does his contempt for everyone who is not within his inner circle. Even they aren’t safe: “The kid has the worst ... judgment of anyone I have ever met,” Trump said of Don Jr. He scorns his fundamentalist supporters, bilks friends, reneges on promises and debts, and cheats in every possible way. Though some people seem not to mind being ill-used, it’s telling, notes Cohen, that Trump has not a single friend. One thing is sure: If Trump is guilty of even a portion of the charges leveled here, then he has no business being president—though, Cohen warns, Trump will not leave office willingly if he loses in 2020, having found the perfect con game. A furious, rueful confession of crimes committed by and on behalf of the sitting president. Condition: Very good / Very good.

Keywords: Donald Trump, Attorney, Stormy Daniels, Election, Otisville Federal, Prison, Campaign Finance, Entrepreneur, Businessman, President, Republican National

ISBN: 9781510764699

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