You can read it here: the foreword to Michael Cohen's upcoming memoir, DISLOYAL.

[pnwmom]

https://disloyalthebook.com/download-the-disloyal-foreword-written-by-michael-cohen/

There are reasons why there has never been an intimate portrait of Donald Trump, the man. In part, it’s because he has a million acquaintances, pals and hangers on, but no real friends. He has no one he trusts to keep his secrets. For ten years, he certainly had me, and I was always there for him, and look what happened to me. I urge you to really consider that fact: Trump has no true friends. He has lived his entire life avoiding and evading taking responsibility for his actions. He crushed or cheated all who stood in his way, but I know where the skeletons are buried because I was the one who buried them. I was the one who most encouraged him to run for president in 2011, and then again in 2015, carefully orchestrating the famous trip down the escalator in Trump Tower for him to announce his candidacy. 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. I stiffed contractors on his behalf, ripped off his business partners, lied to his wife Melania to hide his sexual infidelities, and bullied and screamed at anyone who threatened Trump’s path to power. From golden showers in a sex club in Vegas, to tax fraud, to deals with corrupt officials from the former Soviet Union, to catch and kill conspiracies to silence Trump’s clandestine lovers, I wasn’t just a witness to the president’s rise—I was an active and eager participant.

To underscore that last crucial point, let me say now that I had agency in my relationship with Trump. I made choices along the way—terrible, heartless, stupid, cruel, dishonest, destructive choices, but they were mine and constituted my reality and life. During my years with Trump, to give one example, I fell out of touch with my sisters and younger brother, as I imagined myself becoming a big shot. I’d made my fortune out of taxi medallions, a business viewed as sketchy if not lower class. On Park Avenue, where I lived, I was definitely nouveau riche, but I had big plans that didn’t include being excluded from the elite. I had a narrative: I wanted to climb the highest mountains of Manhattan’s skyscraping ambition, to inhabit the world from the vantage point of private jets and billion-dollar deals, and I was willing to do whatever it took to get there. Then there was my own considerable ego, short temper, and willingness to deceive to get ahead, regardless of the consequences.

As you read my story, you will no doubt ask yourself if you like me, or if you would act as I did, and the answer will frequently be no to both of those questions. But permit me to make a point: If you only read stories written by people you like, you will never be able to understand Donald Trump or the current state of the American soul. More than that, it’s only by actually understanding my decisions and actions that you can get inside Trump’s mind and understand his worldview. As anyone in law enforcement will tell you, it’s only gangsters who can reveal the secrets of organized crime. If you want to know how the mob really works, you’ve got to talk to the bad guys. I was one of Trump’s bad guys. In his world, I was one hundred percent a made man.

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[SheltieLover]

1. K&R!

[Budi]

2. Thank you!

👍🙂

[cayugafalls]

3. I read it earlier, it kind of made me want to buy the book, kind of...

Not that I want to give money to support him, but it seems like he is very articulate.

It might be a good read.

[Clash City Rocker]

8. He's owned up to his wrongdoing. I believe in redemption.

[Iliyah]

4. Cohen's verifying that shithole is in

cahoots with Putin and therefore that messes up treason barr's fake narrative that Russia was not involved and the investigation was unwarranted.

I bet Cohen's has documents to back that up.

[Pachamama]

5. +100000

“From golden showers in a sex club in Vegas, to tax fraud, to deals with corrupt officials from the former Soviet Union, to catch and kill conspiracies to silence Trump’s clandestine lovers, I wasn’t just a witness to the president’s rise—I was an active and eager participant. “

[rsdsharp]

6. Novel is the wrong word to describe this book.

It is not (so far as I know) a fictionalized account of Cohen’s time with Trump. It appears to be An expose.

[pnwmom]

9. You're right. That was completely wrong and I changed it to "memoir." n/t

[Baked Potato]

7. I don't expect him to divulge any secrets which would put his family in more danger,

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but I really would like to know the extent of rat fucking operations committed by Roger Stone and others. Also, Trump’s illicit drug use habits would be something I would like to know. And, any information of ongoing fraud would help voters decide, lol.