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.

The document says these sessions only foster resentment in the workforce.

Mr Trump has previously said he does not believe systemic racism is a problem in the US.

The memo comes amid the social justice protests that have swept the nation in recent months.

'They push black people out and replace us with BLM signs'
They filmed police brutality - then faced a backlash
Friday's two-page document from Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is addressed to the heads of federal executive departments and agencies.

"All agencies are directed to begin to identify all contracts or other agency spending related to any training on 'critical race theory,' 'white privilege,' or any other training or propaganda effort that teaches or suggests either (1) that the United States is an inherently racist or evil country or (2) that any race or ethnicity is inherently racist or evil," it says.

Twenty-thousand people were expected to gather in Berlin on Saturday, but city officials blocked the march. Now, the far-right want to see those officials publicly executed.

German far-right activists have vowed to defy a government ban on a huge protest against coronavirus restrictions, after officials moved to prevent the event becoming “a stage” for COVID-19 deniers and right-wing extremists.

About 20,000 people – a motley mix of coronavirus deniers, conspiracy theorists and right-wing extremists – were expected to attend Saturday’s rally in the German capital, organised by a group called Querdenken (“lateral thinking”)

But Berlin’s city government banned the protests Wednesday, citing the risk to public health, as protesters at a previous rally earlier this month had ignored rules requiring them to wear masks and observe social distancing.

The ban has drawn a furious reaction from the protest’s organisers and would-be attendees from the far-right. The organizer, Stuttgart-based businessman Michael Ballweg, said the ban had confirmed his movement’s fears that the pandemic would be used as a pretext to restrict basic rights. He said he was challenging the ban in court, and assumed the protest would go ahead as planned.