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Nexus2

(1,261 posts)
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 10:39 PM Sep 2020

For those that want to avoid reading the book....

'I Found All the Most Deranged Trump Anecdotes From Michael Cohen's Disloyal, So You Don't Have To Read the Cursed Book'
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Michael Cohen’s Disloyal starts with the line, “The President of the United States wanted me dead.” The sentiment is in all likelihood true, but also a nod to Cohen’s thesis, if his tell-all memoir has one: that Donald Trump is nothing more than a two-bit mobster with a bad combover. And Cohen himself? He’s a sucker who fell for it because he wanted his own small amount of second-hand influence (“The real truth about why I wanted Trump to be president was because I wanted the power that he would bring to me,” he writes at one point). Disloyal is littered with mea culpas, a hairshirt masquerading as a book.

But it is, given Cohen’s role as Trump’s personal fixer for years, also filled with terrible stories about terrible people doing terrible things. As an act of service journalism, I read Disloyal so that you don’t have to, and present to you some of its most awful stories. Will these stories, as Cohen seemingly believes, convince Trump supporters not to vote for him? Probably not, but they’ll ruin your lunch hour! They definitely ruined mine!

Many, many stories of Trump calling Don Jr. a “loser”:
“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.

Many, many stories of how cheap Trump is:
Trump offered a lowball salary. I countered and we met in the middle, less money than I was making at my firm. But I was already wealthy, with my taxi medallions and real-estate holdings worth millions, so it wasn’t the pay that most interested me. The attraction was the action: the game, the deals, the thrill of the chase.


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demtenjeep

(31,997 posts)
1. I will get the book
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 10:41 PM
Sep 2020

I put trump junk in the bathroom and people have to read it


captive audience you see

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
2. I'm sure Cohen has a lot of stories about what an asshole, conman, cad, etc., trump
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 10:45 PM
Sep 2020

is. But everyone knows that, and enough deplorables still support him.

underpants

(182,736 posts)
4. I didn't know he had a botched plugs surgery
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 10:50 PM
Sep 2020

No I get the nickname for Biden by Limbaugh- “Plugs”

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
9. It was actually a scalp reduction surgery (OUCH!).
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 11:02 PM
Sep 2020

They slice, pull, snip, and suture the bald areas, pulling together the areas with hair. That must have made for an ugly recuperation!

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trumps-hair-mystery-solved-he-had-scalp-reduction_b_58966965e4b061551b3dff8a

Donald’s scalp reduction, also known as alopecia reduction (AR), is most successfully performed on patients with balding on the crown on the head, according to HairtransplantMentor.com “The procedure, which essentially cuts out the patient’s bald spot, follows these steps: Under anesthesia, the surgeon cuts away the balding area of the scalp. Usually a portion somewhere between the crown and the vertex transitional point is removed. The remaining skin (which is able to grow hair) is sewn back together.”

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
14. I've wondered whose idea it was for him to try this. He was probably
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 11:21 PM
Sep 2020

so enthralled at the thought of looking his younger self that he didn't consider the procedure or the pain. Apparently, he suffered debilitating headaches for a while, while healing and beyond.

tblue37

(65,273 posts)
12. The scalp scars aren't from botched plugs but from a botched scalp reduction surgery. They
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 11:19 PM
Sep 2020

generally don't even do that sort of scalp reduction any more because it's drastic and doesn't turn out that well.

former9thward

(31,965 posts)
5. In his book Cohen says the Russian collusion was BS and the Dossier was BS
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 10:54 PM
Sep 2020

So you can't pick and choose what you believe.

RussBLib

(9,006 posts)
6. Trump wants to be Putin, or Kim Jong Un, or Erdogan
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 10:57 PM
Sep 2020

Simple. But he can't have that, at least not in America.

It's up to everyone to deny him that.

brush

(53,763 posts)
8. He's not that wealthy if he's counting NYC taxi medallions.
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 11:01 PM
Sep 2020

Those have plummeted in value since Uber and LYft came on the scene.

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