“I was in and out of Trump’s office on the 26th floor of the Trump Tower as many as 50 times a day, tending to his every question,” he writes. Mr. Cohen claims that for many people who try to reach out to the former developer of real estate, “when I talked to them, it was as good as talking directly to Trump.”
Mr Cohen, 53, pleaded guilty in 2018 to campaigns for breaches of finances and other crimes stemming from a scheme to pay household money to two women who said they had affairs with Mr Trump before he became president. Mr. Trump has denied the allegations.
Mr. Cohen had served a three-year sentence in a minimum security prison camp in Otisville, NY, about 75 miles northwest of New York City.
From prison, he writes, he has seen men like Rudolph W. Giuliani, William P. Barr, Jared Kushner and Mike Pompeo act as Trump’s new wannabe fixers, sycophants who are willing to twist the truth and the law to break in service of the boss. “But he says that none of them could fill the void that was left where he once stood. “Trump does not want to hear this, and he will know for sure, but he is lost without his original bulldog lawyer Roy Cohn, or his other former pit bull and personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.”
The book by Mr. Cohen is one of several tell-alls of former Trump insiders being released ahead of election day. Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former friend and adviser to the first lady, Melania Trump, is set to ‘1 Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady ‘on Sept. 1.
Rick Gates, a former high-level aid worker over Mr. Trump in 2016 and a star witness in the Russia investigation, is expected to release a memoir, “Wicked Game,” in October.
Mr. Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., is releasing a self-published book that is sure to paint a better picture of the president. He says he quarantined the book, “Liberal Privilege.”
