Disloyal: A Memoir

A #1 New York Times Bestseller! "I read it cover-to-cover. I did not intend to, but I started at the beginning and didnt put it down until it was over."Rachel Maddow, MSNBC This book almost didnt see the light of day as government officials tried to bar its publication. The Inside Story of the Real President Trump, by His Former Attorney and Personal AdvisorThe Man Who Helped Get Him Into the Oval Office Once Donald Trumps fiercest surrogate, closest confidant, and staunchest defender, Michael Cohen knows where the skeletons are buried. This is the most devastating business and political horror story of the century. As Trumps lawyer and fixer, Cohen not only witnessed firsthand but was also an active participant in the inner workings of Trumps business empire, political campaign, and presidential administration. This is a story that you have not read in newspapers, or on social media, or watched on television. These are accounts that only someone who worked for Trump around the clock for over a decadenot a few months or even a couple of yearscould know. Cohen describes Trumps 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 hes exposing the fact that Trump engaged in tax fraud by inflating his wealth or electronic fraud by rigging an online survey, or outing Trumps Neanderthal views towards women or his hush-money payments to clandestine lovers, Cohen pulls no punches. He shows Trumps relentless willingness to lie, exaggerate, mislead, or manipulate. Trump emerges as a man without a soula man who courts evangelicals and then trashes them, panders to the common man, but then rips off small business owners, a con man who will do or say absolutely anything to win, regardless of the cost to his family, his associates, or his country. At the heart of Disloyal, we see how Cohen came under the spell of his charismatic "Boss" and, as a result, lost all sense of his moral compass. The real "real" Donald Trump who permeates these pagesthe racist, sexist, homophobic, lying, cheating Presidentwill be discussed, written about, and analyzed for years to come.