Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump

by Michael Cohen

When Trump wanted to reach Russian President Vladimir Putin, via a secret back channel, I was tasked with making the connection in my Keystone Kop fashion.

Uh, what?

The 72-story tower (which claims to have 90 floors on the elevator push button, classic Trump)

“Don has the worst fucking judgment of anyone I have ever met,” Trump would often tell me, adding that he’d been reluctant to bestow his first name on his first-born son. He didn’t want to share his name with a “loser,” if that was what his son turned out to be.

Harsh.

I tried a couple of other business ventures, including a gambling cruise line in Florida that didn’t work out,

Franz Mesmer was a German doctor in the eighteenth century who believed in a phenomenon he called “animal magnetism.”

As always, Trump’s litigators in Florida fought the case tooth and nail, threatening the business owner with ruinous legal costs just as he was about to give a deposition. “Let’s play ball,” the owner, Juan Carlos Enriquez, said, as NBC News reported in 2017.

called his plane Hair Force One, for good reason. Trump doesn’t have a simple combover, as it would appear.

arrange for her to get an internship with Vogue magazine. I was in Trump’s office with Ivanka one day as he mused over the idea of supporting Tiffany pursuing a career in fashion. “I don’t think Tiffany has the look,” Trump said to Ivanka and me. “She just doesn’t have what you have, honey.” “I agree, Daddy,” Ivanka said. That was how they referred to each other: Daddy and honey. “She just doesn’t have the look is the right way to say it, Daddy.”

Donald Trump’s presidency is a product of the free press.

To Trump, his voters are his audience, his chumps, his patsies, his base.

cheapness. If Trump could screw a law firm, or a paint vendor, or a salesperson, he’d do it almost as a matter of principle. It was like paying taxes: that was only for the little people.

“A hundred and thirty thousand is a lot less than I would have to pay Melania,” he said. “If it comes out, I’m not sure how it would play with my supporters. But I’d bet they think it’s cool that I slept with a porn star.”

Knows his customers.

“Michael, how are we going to make the payment?” Allen asked. “It is possible to run the invoice through one of the golf courses, like Palos Verde, for example. What about selling a Mar-a-Lago membership to someone you know?

Kushner, an aristocratic man-child possessed of supreme arrogance and a completely amoral will to power, like his father-in-law and wife,