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Post by the Scribe on Aug 13, 2020 23:42:52 GMT
 'From golden showers in a sex club to tax fraud': Michael Cohen releases explosive foreword to Trump booknews.yahoo.com/golden-showers-sex-club-tax-205249152.html
The Independent The Independent•August 13, 2020
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former personal attorney, has released a foreword to his new book in which he calls the president "a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man," and accuses him of cheating in the presidential 2016 election.
Mr Cohen also makes reference to "golden showers in a sex club in Vegas," without specifically stating that the president took part in such acts, and alludes to "catch and kill conspiracies to silence Trump's clandestine lovers."
"Apart from his wife and children, I knew Trump better than anyone else did," Mr Cohen wrote in the foreword to the book 'Disloyal,' which was released on Thursday.
"In some ways, I knew him 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," he added.
The Independent contacted Donald Trump's campaign for comment.
The foreword alone contains several serious allegations against the president. Mr Cohen claims that the investigation into the Trump campaign's links to Russia was "not a witch hunt," and that his former boss willingly accepted the help of Russia.
"Trump had cheated in the election, with Russian connivance, as you will discover in these pages, because doing anything—and I mean anything—to 'win' has always been his business model and way of life," he wrote.
"Trump had also continued to pursue a major real estate deal in Moscow during the campaign. He attempted to insinuate himself into the world of President Vladimir Putin and his coterie of corrupt billionaire oligarchs. I know because I personally ran that deal and kept Trump and his children closely informed of all updates," he wrote.
Cohen, who previously described himself as Mr Trump’s personal “fixer”, was handed a three-year prison sentence for lying to Congress and campaign finance violations involving hush money to women who have claimed to have had affairs with the president. He was released in May to serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest.
Trump's attorneys tried to block the release of the book, claiming Cohen had signed a non-disclosure agreement that prohibited him from talking about his work with the now-president.
While he was behind bars, Cohen – while seeking home detention – wrote that he was an “enabler” for the Trump Organisation, lured by its “magnetic, charismatic and powerful” figurehead.
In a six-page sworn affirmation filed in a US District Court in December, Cohen said that everything he “thought was important and valuable has been painfully revealed as derived” from a “Faustian bargain” in which he cast the president as the Devil, to whom Cohen “sold his soul” and “foolishly frittered away his integrity” on behalf of the president.
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 13, 2020 23:45:44 GMT
Trump's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen says to reveal president's 'skeletons' in upcoming booknews.yahoo.com/trumps-ex-lawyer-michael-cohen-231233858.html
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Karen Freifeld, Reuters•August 13, 2020
(Reuters) - Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer, on Thursday promised to show how Trump cheated in the 2016 election with Russian help in an upcoming book titled "Disloyal, A Memoir."
"Trump had cheated in the election, with Russian connivance, as you will discover in these pages, because doing anything — and I mean anything — to 'win' has always been his business model and way of life," Cohen writes in the book's foreword, which was published online on Thursday.
The 3,700-word foreword does not reveal anything new about Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, and it was not clear if the book would.
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller last year concluded that Russia waged a major campaign to help Trump to victory in 2016.
Mueller did not find evidence of a criminal conspiracy between Trump's campaign and Russia, but he did detail extensive contacts between the campaign and Russian operatives.
Cohen worked closely with Trump for years before turning against him, most publicly in testimony to Congress last year prior to Trump's impeachment.
Cohen said he knows where Trump's metaphorical "skeletons" are buried because he buried them.
White House spokesman Brian Morgenstern responded by attacking Cohen's credibility.
"He readily admits to lying routinely but expects people to believe him now so that he can make money from book sales. It’s unfortunate that the media is exploiting this sad and desperate man to attack President Trump,” Morgenstern said.
Trump has called Cohen "a rat," and a liar, and Cohen said he faced repeated death threats from Trump supporters.
Cohen, 53, is serving a three-year sentence for tax evasion, false statements and campaign finance violations, the last related to payments to silence women who alleged affairs with Trump before the 2016 presidential election.
Cohen was released to home confinement in May given the risks of catching COVID-19 in prison, but then was briefly imprisoned again last month.
A federal judge last month ruled Cohen had been subjected to retaliation for planning to publish his book, and ordered him released again.
A lawyer for Cohen declined to comment.
(Reporting by Karen Freifeld, additional reporting by Nathan Layne and Jeff Mason; Editing by Scott Malone and Tom Brown)
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 13, 2020 23:50:12 GMT
Michael Cohen previews tell-all Trump book, alleges Russia collusion, other sordid scandalswww.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2020/08/13/michael-cohen-previews-tell-all-memoir-alleged-trump-scandals/3369780001/
Charles Trepany
USA TODAY
Michael Cohen is moving forward with his tell-all memoir about President Donald Trump, weeks after a judge ruled that his being sent back to prison was a retaliatory act over the book.
The former attorney and self-described fixer for the president announced on Twitter Thursday that his book, "Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump," is now available for pre-order online, where people can also read the book's foreword.
"The day has finally arrived," he wrote. "I have waited a long time to share my truth."
A hardcover copy costs $32.50 and a signed copy $40, according to the book's website. No release date is listed, but Cohen tweeted an image of the book's cover with the words "Coming Soon."
White House representative Brian Morgenstern criticized the memoir in a statement to USA TODAY.
"Michael Cohen’s book is fan fiction," he said. "He readily admits to lying routinely but expects people to believe him now so that he can make money from book sales. It’s unfortunate that the media is exploiting this sad and desperate man to attack President Trump."
In the foreword, Cohen describes Trump as a "mob boss" who "wouldn’t mind if I was dead." He also recalls the events leading up to his testimony before the House Oversight Committee in 2019 and says he started writing the memoir "longhand on a yellow legal pad" from his upstate New York prison.
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According to Cohen, his history with Trump gives him unique insight into how the president thinks.
"Trump’s theory of life, business and politics revolved around threats and the prospect of destruction—financial, electoral, personal, physical—as a weapon," he writes. "I knew how he worked because I had frequently been the one screaming threats on his behalf as Trump’s fixer and designated thug."
He also claims that Trump "wanted me gone before I could tell the nation what I know about him."
"I was exactly the person Trump was talking about when he said he could shoot and kill someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it," he adds.
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According to the lawyer, those who believe Trump is "a Russian-controlled fraud" and those who believe "the entire Russian scandal was a witch hunt" are both wrong. Rather, Cohen writes Trump did collude with Russia, "but not in the sophisticated ways imaged by his detractors."
"Trump had cheated in the election, with Russian connivance, as you will discover in these pages, because doing anything—and I mean anything—to 'win' has always been his business model and way of life," he continued.
Cohen also previewed other scandals, including that he lied to first lady Melania Trump to cover up her husband's sexual infidelities and that Trump tasked him with creating a "secret back channel" for Trump to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"From golden showers in a sex club in Vegas, to tax fraud, to deals with corrupt officials from the former Soviet Union, to catch and kill conspiracies to silence Trump’s clandestine lovers, I wasn’t just a witness to the president’s rise—I was an active and eager participant," he writes.
Cohen adds: "If you want to know how the mob really works, you’ve got to talk to the bad guys. I was one of Trump’s bad guys."
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's longtime personal attorney, testifies before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Feb. 27, 2019 in Washington.
Last month, Cohen was released to home confinement after a federal judge in New York found that he was sent back to prison as a retaliatory act over his decision to write a tell-all book about Trump.
"I cannot believe fairly that it was not in purpose ... to stop his exercise of First Amendment rights" to publish a book and discuss it on social media, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said at a hearing on July 23.
The judge ordered the Bureau of Prisons to release Cohen back to his family by afternoon the next day.
In a statement, Danya Perry, Cohen's attorney, said the judge's ruling confirms that the Justice Department and Bureau of Prisons can't block Cohen from publishing a book about the president as a condition of his home confinement.
"This principle transcends politics, and we are gratified that the rule of law prevails," Perry said.
The Bureau of Prisons said in a statement that assertions officials retaliated against Cohen were "patently false."
The self-described fixer for the president was furloughed to home confinement in May because of coronavirus fears in the federal prison system. Cohen was sent back to prison in Otisville, N.Y. after he refused the conditions of his home confinement. Officials were finalizing Cohen's processing to home confinement as part of the U.S. Probation Office's Federal Location Monitoring program.
Lanny Davis, Cohen's legal adviser, said Cohen was meeting with authorities to go over final conditions of home confinement and to obtain an ankle bracelet monitor when he balked at a required provision that he not speak to the media or pursue a previously announced book project during the term of his sentence.
The media and book prohibitions, Davis said, were part of an eight-point list presented to Cohen. Davis said officials departed the meeting to discuss Cohen's disagreement, then U.S. marshals returned about an hour later, carrying shackles.
Contributing: Kristine Phillips
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 13, 2020 23:53:47 GMT
Michael Cohen Says in Upcoming Book ‘Disloyal’ That Trump ‘Wanted Me Dead’www.yahoo.com/entertainment/michael-cohen-says-upcoming-book-210629947.html
Lindsey Ellefson
August 13, 2020, 2:06 PM MST·2 mins read
In his forthcoming book “Disloyal,” former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen takes readers deep inside his close relationship with the president that, according to Cohen, eventually made him fear for his life when he agreed to testify against the man he once thought of as a father figure.
Cohen released the foreword to the book online, which begins, “The President of the United States wanted me dead. Or, let me say it the way Donald Trump would: He wouldn’t mind if I was dead. That was how Trump talked. Like a mob boss, using language carefully calibrated to convey his desires and demands, while at the same time employing deliberate indirection to insulate himself and avoid actually ordering a hit on his former personal attorney, confidant, consigliere, and, at least in my heart, adopted son.”
The convicted felon then paints a clear picture of just how close he says he was to Trump and all the nefarious activity he bore witness to.
“He has lived his entire life avoiding and evading taking responsibility for his actions. He crushed or cheated all who stood in his way, but I know where the skeletons are buried because I was the one who buried them. … From golden showers in a sex club in Vegas, to tax fraud, to deals with corrupt officials from the former Soviet Union, to catch and kill conspiracies to silence Trump’s clandestine lovers, I wasn’t just a witness to the president’s rise–I was an active and eager participant,” Cohen wrote.
In a tweet announcing the book, Cohen wrote, “The day has finally arrived. I have waited a long time to share my truth.”
The book’s official announcement comes just weeks after a federal judge ordered the release of Cohen from prison. He had pleaded guilty in 2018 to lying to Congress, tax evasion and campaign finance fraud involving hush-money payments to women who said they had affairs with Trump.
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That ruling came two days after Cohen filed a lawsuit against Attorney General William Barr, in which he said the reason he was taken back into custody earlier in July was because of the book. The president had denied he had the affairs.
In a new statement posted to the book’s website, Cohen’s attorney Danya Perry said, “We are pleased that the government now recognizes the need for adherence to basic constitutional liberties. This is a complete victory for Michael Cohen, for free speech, and for the rule of law.”
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There is no publication date yet announced.
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 13, 2020 23:57:41 GMT
Michael Cohen Hearing Cold Open - SNL
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The Congressional Oversight Committee (Kenan Thompson, Bill Hader, Kyle Mooney, Kate McKinnon, Alex Moffat) question President Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen (Ben Stiller) about his former boss.
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 14, 2020 12:35:10 GMT
Michael Cohen book claims Trump colluded with Russia and will 'never leave office peacefully'news.yahoo.com/michael-cohen-book-claims-trump-232700208.html
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Doha Madani and Tom Winter, NBC News•August 13, 2020
Michael Cohen book claims Trump colluded with Russia and will 'never leave office peacefully'
In an upcoming book, Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former attorney, alleges that Trump worked with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election.
Among many other accusations, Cohen alleges that Trump worked to get close to Russian President Vladimir Putin and “his coterie of corrupt billionaire oligarchs,” according to an excerpt released Thursday from the book, entitled “Disloyal, A Memoir."
Cohen claims that Trump lied when he told the American public he had no dealings in Russia, because Cohen personally oversaw Trump’s efforts to secure a major real estate deal in Moscow during the campaign.
“Trump had colluded with the Russians, but not in the sophisticated ways imagined by his detractors. I also knew that the Mueller investigation was not a witch-hunt,” Cohen wrote, although he did not provide specifics about the alleged collusion in the excerpt. “Trump had cheated in the election, with Russian connivance, as you will discover in these pages, because doing anything — and I mean anything — to ‘win’ has always been his business model and way of life.”
Trump has repeatedly and consistently denied any collusion with Russia in the 2016 election.
Cohen began serving a three-year prison sentence last year for financial crimes and lying to Congress. He was released in July to serve the rest of his sentence at home following concerns that unsafe prison conditions could put him at risk for coronavirus. The 53-year-old has a history of high blood pressure and respiratory problems.
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He has been described in the past as Trump's "fixer," but turned on his former boss, calling him a "con man" and "a cheat" during dramatic testimony before Congress last year.
In the excerpt released Thursday, Cohen claimed he knew Trump better than even his wife or children because he was tasked to cover up the president's infidelities and various misdeeds. Cohen wrote that he is convinced Trump "will never leave office peacefully."
"The types of scandals that have surfaced in recent months will only continue to emerge with greater and greater levels of treachery and deceit," the excerpt said. "If Trump wins another four years, these scandals will prove to only be the tip of the iceberg. I’m certain that Trump knows he will face prison time if he leaves office, the inevitable cold Karma to the notorious chants of 'Lock Her Up!'"
Trump has publicly called Cohen a fraud and liar following his decisions to work with Special Counsel Robert Mueller and testify before Congress, tweeting that he was a “failed lawyer” and “fraudster.” The White House called the book "fan fiction" in a statement following the excerpt's release.
"He readily admits to lying routinely but expects people to believe him now so that he can make money from book sales," the statement said. "It’s unfortunate that the media is exploiting this sad and desperate man to attack President Trump."
Cohen does not attempt to paint himself as Trump’s victim in the released excerpt, but rather a self-described “bad guy” who helped the now-president rip-off business partners and cover up extramarital affairs. He described the president’s way of conducting himself “like a mob boss.”
“From golden showers in a sex club in Vegas, to tax fraud, to deals with corrupt officials from the former Soviet Union, to catch and kill conspiracies to silence Trump’s clandestine lovers, I wasn’t just a witness to the president’s rise—I was an active and eager participant,” he wrote.
He also described fearing for his life following his decision to testify against Trump and that he felt the president wanted him dead. At one point, Cohen said he even contemplated suicide as death threats “had come by the hundreds.”
“On my cell phone, by email, snail mail, in tweets, on Facebook, enraged Trump supporters vowed to kill me, and I took those threats very seriously,” Cohen wrote. “The President called me a rat and tweeted angry accusations at me, as well as my family. All rats deserve to die, I was told.”
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 15, 2020 17:04:59 GMT
Michael Cohen Releases Forward To New Memoir, ‘Disloyal’ | All In | MSNBC
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Politico’s Natasha Bertrand: “It’s pretty remarkable how much the Trump administration doesn’t want this book to come out to the point that a judge last month said this is something I’ve never seen in my two decades of being on the bench.” Aired on 8/13/2020.
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 25, 2020 8:37:04 GMT
Disloyal: A Memoir By Michael Cohen Full Audiobook
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