A teaser for Michael Cohen’s book about his time as a lawyer and fixer of Donald Trump and his fall from grace was released on Thursday, after the U.S. Department of Justice issued a warrant to stop the publication of the book that letter fell.
The book, entitled Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J Trump, is slated to be released sometime in September, ahead of the November presidential election.
Cohen gave up pre-sale and tweeted about it on Thursday.
Michael Cohen
(@ MichaelCohen212)The day has finally arrived. I have waited a long time to share my truth. To read the preface and pre-order my book DISLOYAL, visit https://t.co/Va4Rt0Zear
In the foreword to the book, Cohen, 53, mentions writing in his federal prison cell in upstate New York in his green inmate uniform.
He describes his feelings of dismay at the falling President of the United States after years of Trump’s first morning and his last call every night. ‘
“Somehow I knew him better than even his family did, because I witness the real man,” he writes, calling Trump a con man, a predator, a racist, a bully and a liar.
In his cell, Cohen spent nearly a year serving a three-year sentence on federal charges of tax evasion, making false statements, lying to Congress and facilitating illegal payments to silence women over their proven cases with Trump in the past. . But Cohen was released in May after fears of Covid-19 proliferation in federal prisons.
After tweeting that he was almost finished with his book in July, Cohen was sent back to prison. The ACLU pleaded guilty in a lawsuit on behalf of his name to evict him, saying he was getting revenge by the authorities, which was ultimately successful. An order from the Justice Department to stop the publication of the book was also dropped.
In the forwarding to the book, Cohen writes: ‘My unintentional desire to please Trump to gain power for myself, the fatal mistake that led to my ruin, was a Faustian trade: I would do anything to collect, to expand, maintain, exercise, exploit power. In this way, Donald Trump and I were the most equal … soulmates. ”
Cohen describes driving to Washington DC, from his home in New York, ready to testify before Congress during the Trump-Russia investigation, and fearing that someone would try to assassinate him, why he did not fly the plane or the train went off, after receiving hundreds of death threats for turning against the president.
“I was wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses and I kept the speedometer at 80, allowing me to have the gaze of other drivers,” he writes.
He also says he had a panic attack and sighed before testifying. At the February 2019 congress, he accused Trump of criminal conspiracy and said that when Trump was the Republican candidate in 2016, Trump was aware of the infamous Trump Tower office meeting in New York between members of his presidential campaign, including son Donald Trump Jr., and a Russian lawyer with ties to the Kremlin, to receive harmful information about Hillary Clinton.
In his foreword to the book, he warns: “In these perilous days, I see the Republican Party and Trump’s followers threatening the constitution – which is in much greater danger than is commonly understood – and following one of the least impulses. of man: the desire for power at all costs. “
The Trump administration has tried and failed to stop some high-profile tell-alls. A damned book by former National Security Adviser John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened, was published in June, while the exuberant and personal book Too Much and Never Enough, by Trump’s uncle Mary L Trump, appeared in July.
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