Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President

Description: Disloyal: A Memoir by Michael Cohen Thisbook almost didnt see the light of day as government officials tried to barits publication. The inside story of the real President Trump, by his former attorneyand personal advisor - the man who helped get him into the Oval Office. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book almost didnt see the light of day as government officials tried to bar its publication. The inside story of the real President Trump, by his former attorney and personal advisor — the man who helped get him into the Oval Office.Once Donald Trumps fiercest surrogate, closest confidant, and staunchest defender, Michael Cohen knows where the skeletons are buried.This is the most devastating business and political horror story of the century. As Trumps lawyer and fixer, Cohen not only witnessed firsthand, but was also an active participant in the inner workings of Trumps businessempire, political campaign, and presidential administration.This is a story that you have not read in newspapers, or on social media, or watched on television. These are accounts that only someone who worked for Trump around the clock for over a decade — not a few months or even a couple of years — could know. Cohen describes Trumps racist rants against President Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, and Black and Hispanic people in general, as well as the cruelty, humiliation, and abuse he levelled at family and staff. Whether hes exposing the fact that Trump engaged in tax fraud by inflating his wealth or election fraud by rigging polls, or outing Trumps Neanderthal views towards women or his hush-money payments to clandestine lovers, Cohen pulls no punches.He shows Trumps relentless willingness to lie, exaggerate, mislead, or manipulate. Trump emerges as a man without a soul — a man who courts evangelicals and then trashes them, panders to the common man, but then rips off small business owners, a con-man who will do or say absolutely anything to win, regardless of the cost to his family, his associates, or his country.At the heart of Disloyal, we see how Cohen came under the spell of his charismatic Boss and, as a result, lost all sense of his moral compass.The real real Donald Trump who permeates these pages — the racist, sexist, homophobic, lying, cheating President — will be discussed, written about, and analyzed for years to come. Author Biography Michael Cohen is an American attorney and businessman. He acted as Special Counsel to President Donald J. Trump from 2017-2018 and as Executive VP for the Trump Organization before then. Cohen lives in New York City with his wife and two children. Review A #1 New York Times Bestseller!This book almost didnt see the light of day as government officials tried to bar its publication."I read it cover-to-cover. I did not intend to, but I started at the beginning and didnt put it down until it was over."—Rachel Maddow, MSNBC"I make the finding that the purpose of transferring Mr. Cohen from furlough and home confinement to jail is retaliatory. And its retaliatory because of his desire to exercise his First Amendment rights to publish a book and to discuss anything about the book or anything else he wants on social media and with others."—Federal District Court Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein"Trump has tried to stop the publication of unflattering books about him before, including his very recent and unsuccessful attempts to silence his former national security advisor John Bolton and Mary Trump, the Presidents niece. But the attempted suppression of Cohens book is different from prior efforts because it uses (and abuses) DOJs hammer of incarceration."—Jennifer Rodgers, CNN"Was federal law enforcement punishing Cohen because hed worked on a book critical of the president? Was the White House responsible for orchestrating Cohens re-imprisonment? Was Team Trump pulling levers to silence the presidents former fixer ahead of the election?"—Steve Benen, MSNBC"JUDGE ORDERS COHEN RELEASED, CITING "RETALIATION" OVER TELL-ALL BOOK. A judge agreed that federal officials had returned Michael D. Cohen to prison because he wanted to publish a book about President Trump."—The New York Times"The idea that Michael Cohen is sitting in solitary confinement because he wont sign papers committing not to publish a book is unfathomable. This is the United States of America. We dont send people to solitary confinement because they want to write a book."—Alan Dershowitz, author of The Case Against Impeaching Trump"Michael Cohens book to allege Trump made racist comments about Obama and Nelson Mandela, lawsuit says."—Washington Post Long Description Thisbook almost didnt see the light of day as government officials tried to barits publication. The inside story of the real President Trump, by his former attorneyand personal advisor -- the man who helped get him into the Oval Office. Once Donald Trumps fiercest surrogate, closest confidant, and staunchestdefender, Michael Cohen knows where the skeletons are buried.This is the most devastating business and political horror story of thecentury. As Trumps lawyer and fixer, Cohen not only witnessed firsthand, butwas also an active participant in the inner workings of Trumps businessempire, political campaign, and presidential administration.This is a story that you have not read in newspapers, or on social media, orwatched on television. These are accounts that only someone who worked forTrump around the clock for over a decade -- not a few months or even a couple ofyears -- could know. Cohen describes Trumps racist rants against President BarackObama, Nelson Mandela, and Black and Hispanic people in general, as well as thecruelty, humiliation, and abuse he levelled at family and staff. Whether hesexposing the fact that Trump engaged in tax fraud by inflating his wealth orelection fraud by rigging polls, or outing Trumps Neanderthal views towardswomen or his hush-money payments to clandestine lovers, Cohen pulls no punches.He shows Trumps relentless willingness to lie, exaggerate, mislead, ormanipulate. Trump emerges as a man without a soul -- a man who courts evangelicalsand then trashes them, panders to the common man, but then rips off smallbusiness owners, a con-man who will do or say absolutely anything to win,regardless of the cost to his family, his associates, or his country.At the heart of Disloyal , we see how Cohen came under the spell ofhis charismatic Boss and, as a result, lost all sense of his moral compass.The real real Donald Trump who permeates these pages -- the racist, sexist,homophobic, lying, cheating President -- will be discussed, written about, andanalyzed for years to come. Review Quote This book almost didnt see the light of day as government officials tried to bar its publication. "I read it cover-to-cover. I did not intend to, but I started at the beginning and didnt put it down until it was over."--Rachel Maddow, MSNBC "I make the finding that the purpose of transferring Mr. Cohen from furlough and home confinement to jail is retaliatory. And its retaliatory because of his desire to exercise his First Amendment rights to publish a book and to discuss anything about the book or anything else he wants on social media and with others."--Federal District Court Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein " Trump has tried to stop the publication of unflattering books about him before , including his very recent and unsuccessful attempts to silence his former national security advisor John Bolton and Mary Trump, the Presidents niece. But the attempted suppression of Cohens book is different from prior efforts because it uses (and abuses) DOJs hammer of incarceration ."--Jennifer Rodgers, CNN "Was federal law enforcement punishing Cohen because hed worked on a book critical of the president? Was the White House responsible for orchestrating Cohens re-imprisonment? Was Team Trump pulling levers to silence the presidents former fixer ahead of the election? "--Steve Benen, MSNBC "JUDGE ORDERS COHEN RELEASED, CITING "RETALIATION" OVER TELL-ALL BOOK. A judge agreed that federal officials had returned Michael D. Cohen to prison because he wanted to publish a book about President Trump ."-- The New York Times "The idea that Michael Cohen is sitting in solitary confinement because he wont sign papers committing not to publish a book is unfathomable. This is the United States of America. We dont send people to solitary confinement because they want to write a book ."--Alan Dershowitz, author of The Case Against Impeaching Trump " Michael Cohens book to allege Trump made racist comments about Obama and Nelson Mandela , lawsuit says."-- Washington Post Excerpt from Book DISLOYAL , THE FOREWORD: THE REAL REAL DONALD TRUMP The President of the United States wanted me dead. Or, let me say it the way Donald Trump would: He wouldnt 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. Driving south from New York City to Washington, DC on I-95 on the cold, gray winter morning of February 24th, 2019, en route to testify against President Trump before both Houses of Congress, I knew he wanted me gone before I could tell the nation what I know about him. Not the billionaire celebrity savior of the country or lying lunatic, not the tabloid tycoon or self-anointed Chosen One, not the avatar @realdonaldtrump of Twitter fame, but the real real Donald Trump--the man very, very, very few people know. If that sounds overly dramatic, consider the powers Trump possessed and imagine how you might feel if he threatened you personally. Heading south, I wondered if my prospects for survival were also going in that direction. I was acutely aware of the magnitude of Trumps fury aimed directly at my alleged betrayal. I was wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses and I kept the speedometer at eighty, avoiding the glances of other drivers. Trumps theory of life, business and politics revolved around threats and the prospect of destruction--financial, electoral, personal, physical--as a weapon. I knew how he worked because I had frequently been the one screaming threats on his behalf as Trumps fixer and designated thug. Ever since I had flipped and agreed to cooperate with Robert Mueller and the Special Counsels Office, the 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. 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. I was a lowlife Judas they were going to hunt down. I was driving because I couldnt fly or take the train to Washington. If I had, I was sure I would be mobbed or attacked. For weeks, walking the streets of Manhattan, I was convinced that someone was going to ram me with his car. 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. My mind was spinning as I sped towards DC. For more than a decade, I had been at the center of Trumps innermost circle. When he came to my sons bar mitzvah, a generous gesture that I found touching, he told my then thirteen-year-old boy that his Dad was the greatest and that, if he wanted to work at the Trump Organization when he grew up, there would always be a position for him. "Youre family," Trump said to my son and me. And I fucking believed him! Pulling over at a service plaza, I gassed up and headed inside for a coffee, black no sugar. I looked around to see if I was under surveillance or being followed; a sense of dread consuming my thoughts. Who was that FBI-type in the gray coat or the muscle-bound dude a few paces behind me? The notion that I was being followed or stalked may have seemed crazy; but it was also perfectly logical. I wasnt just famous--I was perhaps the most infamous person in the country at the time, seen by millions upon millions as a traitor. President Trump controlled all the levers of the Commander in Chief and all the overt and covert powers that come with the highest office in the country. He also possessed a cult-like hold over his supporters, some of them demonstrably unhinged and willing to do anything to please or protect the President. I knew how committed these fanatics were because Id been one of them: an acolyte obsessed with Donald J. Trump, a demented follower willing to do anything for him, including, as I vowed once to a reporter, to take a bullet. On the eve of my public testimony, lying in the still of the night in my hotel room, taking a bullet assumed a completely different meaning. That was the level of ruination I had brought upon myself--complete and total destruction. I closed my eyes, wishing the nightmare would end. When I started working for Trump I had been a multi-millionaire lawyer and businessman, and now I was broke and broken; a convicted, disgraced, and disbarred former attorney about to testify against the President on live television before an audience of more than 15 million Americans. "Hey, Michael Cohen, do your wife and father-in-law know about your girlfriends?" GOP Representative Matt Gaetz tweeted at me that night, to cite just one example of the juvenile idiocy and menace aimed in my direction. "I wonder if shell remain faithful when youre in prison. Shes about to learn a lot..." Sitting in the green room on the morning of my testimony before the House Oversight Committee, I began to feel the enormous weight of what was about to happen. For some reason, after all that Id been through, and all Id put my family and the country through, waiting in that room was the moment when the gravity of what was about to happen truly hit home. The United States was being torn apart, its political and cultural and mental well-being threatened by a clear and present danger named Donald Trump, and I had played a central role in creating this new reality. To half of Americans, it seemed like Trump was effectively a Russian-controlled fraud who had lied and cheated his way to the White House; to the other half of Americans, to Trumps supporters, the entire Russian scandal was a witch hunt invented by Democrats still unable to accept the fact that Hillary Clinton had lost fair and square in the most surprising upset in the history of American presidential elections. Both sides were wrong. I knew that the reality was much more complicated and dangerous. 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. 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 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, even as the candidate blatantly lied to the American people saying, "theres no Russian collusion, I have no dealings with Russia...theres no Russia." The time to testify nearing, I asked the Sergeant at Arms for a few minutes of privacy and the room was cleared. Sitting alone, my thoughts and heart racing, I had the first panic attack of my life. I struggled to breathe and stand. The pressure was too much; I had contemplated suicide in recent weeks, as a way to escape the unrelenting insanity. Reaching for a seat, I started to cry, a flood of emotions overwhelming me: fear, anger, dread, anxiety, relief, terror. It felt something like when I was in the hospital awaiting the birth of my daughter and son, with so many powerful and unprecedented emotions welling up in anticipation. Only now I was that child being born and all of the pain and blood were part of the birth of my new life and identity. Trying to pull myself together, I went to the private bathroom and checked my eyes to see if they were bloodshot or puffy. To my relief, they werent. I splashed my face with cold water and felt a calm coming over me, and then a surge of confidence and adrenaline. I had pled guilty to multiple federal crimes, including lying to Congress, but I was there to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I knew that Trump and the Republican House members would want me to hesitate, falter, show weakness, even break down. They wanted me to look unreliable, shifty, and uncertain about the truth and myself. This was blood sport and they wanted me to cower. I wasnt going to give them the satisfaction, I decided. I was going to nail it. "Showtime," the Sergeant at Arms called out, opening the door. "Youre on, Mr. Cohen." One deep breath and I stepped into the hallway, into a crush of photographers and TV cameras and the craziness of wall-to-wall national obsession. I made my way alone through the jostle and shove of the surging crowd as I experienced the out-of-body sensation of seeing myself on television screens walking in to testify. It was truly bizarre to be at the epicenter of American history at that moment, to personify so many fears and resentments, to be the villain or savior, depending on your point of view, to speak truth to power in an age when truth itself was on trial. There I was, watching myself on TV, the Michael Cohen everyone had an opinion about: liar, snitch, idiot, bully, sycophant, convicted criminal, the least reliable narrator on the planet. So, please permit me to reintroduce myself in these pages. The one thing I can say with absolute certainty is that whatever you may have heard or thought about me, you dont know me or my story or the Donald Trump that I know. For more than a decade, I was Trumps first call every morning and his last call every night. I was in and out of Trumps office on the 26th floor of the Trump Tower as many as fifty times a d Details ISBN1510764690 Author Michael Cohen Short Title Disloyal: a Memoir Pages 448 Publisher Skyhorse Publishing Company Language English Year 2020 ISBN-10 1510764690 ISBN-13 9781510764699 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2020-09-08 Subtitle The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump Audience General/Trade UK Release Date 2020-12-10 Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2020-12-10 DEWEY 973.933092 AU Release Date 2020-12-13 Imprint Skyhorse Publishing Place of Publication New York, NY US Release Date 2020-12-10 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:129739811;

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