The Washington Post and CNN have obtained copies of Michael Cohen’s book “Disloyal: A Memoir” and written summaries of selected parts of the book. In the book, Cohen describes trump as “a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man.”
The book will be officially published on Tuesday. You can bet the book will be discussed non-stop on the airwaves and tubes, all week, starting today.
Here are some mind-boggling snippets from the book as reported by noted media personalities.
trump’s opinion of working-class folks -
trump’s disdain for Evangelicals -
trump’s disgraceful views on countries run by black people -
Mr. Fraud’s visceral hatred (envy really) of Obama — “the only reason Obama got into Columbia University and Harvard Law School was because of “f---ing affirmative action.”
Calling Blacks and Latinos stupid -
Putin as a means to riches and power -
Sucking up to Putin -
Cohen says the Trump Tower plans called for a 120-story building in Red Square, including 30 floors devoted to a five-star hotel with an Ivanka Trump-branded spa and Trump restaurants, and 230 high-end condominiums for Russian oligarchs and leaders.
The plan, Cohen adds, was to give the penthouse apartment to the Russian president for free, in part “as a way to suck up to Putin.”
“The whole idea of patriotism and treason became irrelevant in his mind,” Cohen writes. “Trump was using the campaign to make money for himself: of course he was.”
Cohen says the whole family was aware of the project.
trump the pervert and predator. This is sick to the core. This is beyond redemption.
More debauchery in Vegas -
Michael Cohen on the “free press” — "Right, left, moderate, tabloid, broadsheet, television, radio, Internet, Facebook -- that is who elected Trump and might well elect him again."
The pic above gets used a lot on twitter. It is from a video that never aired at the RNC Convention in 2012, in which trump belittles and “fires” a Faux-bama, apprentice style. The Faux-bama story was also headlined in the CNN article. The video was mentioned in the article from September 18, 2012 at www.washingtonpost.com/…". Here is a link to the rotten video Michael is referring to in the book.
The book. Hopefully, the 432-page book has more stories and more detail than what is covered in these previews.
Michael Cohen will be Rachel Maddow’s guest Tuesday night.
One might say that this will make no difference with trump supporters; none of his past scandals have hurt him with his base, this won’t either. But this will certainly not help his cause —
- It will suck away the Oxygen in the media for a few days and not let trump control the narrative
- It will put the trump campaign on the defensive (all they can do is deny and attack Cohen)
- It will keep the energy level up among Democrats
- The material will show up in campaign ads, by Biden and others (we can expect one soon from the Lincoln Project and the Meidas Touch).
- This will make a dent among some Independents, especially women, who voted for trump last time.
- trump has been slowly losing support among military families and the “losers and suckers” story didn’t help his cause.
- Every such story and every vote will make a difference.
Let’s make sure we do our part in keeping trump and republicans on the defensive and let’s support our GOTV effort in every way we can.
P.S. Bob Woodward’s book “Rage” comes out on Tue, Sep 15.