Disloyal A Memoir - The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to Donald J. Trump

Zusatztext A #1 New York Times Bestseller! This book almost didn’t 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 didn’t 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 it’s 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 President’s niece. But the attempted suppression of Cohen’s 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 he’d worked on a book critical of the president? Was the White House responsible for orchestrating Cohen’s re-imprisonment? Was Team Trump pulling levers to silence the president’s 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 won’t sign papers committing not to publish a book is unfathomable. This is the United States of America. We don’t send people to solitary confinement because they want to write a book .”—Alan Dershowitz, author of The Case Against Impeaching Trump “ Michael Cohen’s book to allege Trump made racist comments about Obama and Nelson Mandela , lawsuit says.”— Washington Post Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "Once Donald Trump's fiercest surrogate, closest confidant, and staunchest defender, Michael Cohen knows where the skeletons are buried ... These are accounts that only someone who worked for Trump around the clock for over a decade ... could know. Cohen describes Trump's racist rants against President Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, and Black and Hispanic people in general, as well as the cruelty, humiliation, and abuse he leveled at family and staff. Whether he's exposing the fact that Trump engaged in tax fraud by inflating his wealth or electronic fraud by rigging an online survey, or outing Trump's ... views towards women or his hush-money payments to clandestine lovers, Cohen pulls no punches"--Dust jacket flap. Leseprobe 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 wouldn’t 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 m...

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A #1 New York Times Bestseller!

This book almost didn't 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 didn't 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 it's 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 President's niece. But the attempted suppression of Cohen's 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 he'd worked on a book critical of the president? Was the White House responsible for orchestrating Cohen's re-imprisonment? Was Team Trump pulling levers to silence the president's 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 won't sign papers committing not to publish a book is unfathomable. This is the United States of America. We don't send people to solitary confinement because they want to write a book."-Alan Dershowitz, author of The Case Against Impeaching Trump

"Michael Cohen's book to allege Trump made racist comments about Obama and Nelson Mandela, lawsuit says."-Washington Post

Product details

• Authors: Michael Cohen
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781510764699
• ISBN: 978-1-5107-6469-9
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 245 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies