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Disloyal: A Memoir - Michael Cohen's book

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Firestone said:
According to Michael Cohen, Trump's intense hatred for Obama dates from the 2008 election.

Excerpt from the book:
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Really, I'm not sure why anyone would be surprised, considering his insistence that the wrongly-jailed "Central Park 5" should still have been in jail, and his seething hatred of indigenous people due to their successful casino operations (when he managed to go bankrupt in the same line by oversaturating Atlantic City). It's really standard white supremacism - he's happy with black people that know their place, but a black guy as Leader of the Free World? That's an outrage to him, and he, the mighty white man, must fix all of the things that stupid negro must have ruined.

Back in the real world - Obama, like his peers, is an accomplished man, and Dolt 45 is a tabloid clown who is really only useful for laundering money for more competent criminal syndicates than his little family.
 
Mumbles said:
Really, I'm not sure why anyone would be surprised, considering his insistence that the wrongly-jailed "Central Park 5" should still have been in jail, and his seething hatred of indigenous people due to their successful casino operations (when he managed to go bankrupt in the same line by oversaturating Atlantic City). It's really standard white supremacism - he's happy with black people that know their place, but a black guy as Leader of the Free World? That's an outrage to him, and he, the mighty white man, must fix all of the things that stupid negro must have ruined.

Back in the real world - Obama, like his peers, is an accomplished man, and Dolt 45 is a tabloid clown who is really only useful for laundering money for more competent criminal syndicates than his little family.
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That's the sad part of this story: nothing Cohen tells, however saucy the details, is really that surprising.

What's surprising and discouraging is how resilient 40 to 45% of Americans are about all this (not meaning Cohen's book specifically, but everything we already have known for years about Trumps behaviour, racism, grifting, pettiness, etc...).
 
Nothing Cohen has said about Trump has surprised me; it's only made me revile Trump even more. That is what has surprised me because I didn't think that was possible.
 
Stacyhs said:
Nothing Cohen has said about Trump has surprised me; it's only made me revile Trump even more. That is what has surprised me because I didn't think that was possible.
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....and yet 40% to 45% of the US electorate will read those excerpts (if they actually do read them) and President Trump will actually go up in their estimation. :confused:
 
First time problem: I cannot read the thread. I don't even have the book and all the nuggets have been mined by the news!

It's my first Trump focused book. I don't really care abut Trump's niece's book. I am sort interested only in how the Trump election happened. But I will read the majority of books on that (political analysts etc) only when we are done with Trump. For now, to election, this Cohen book is just entertainment.

Not like I needed any more data to round out my impression of a narcissistic TV personality. I will also quit reading twitter pretty soon, and delete my current Twitter account. I'll start one in my real name in 2021.
 
The book topped the Amazon best seller list. Maybe Indigo was wrong, there might be money in the revenge business.
 
The Don said:
....and yet 40% to 45% of the US electorate will read those excerpts (if they actually do read them) and President Trump will actually go up in their estimation. :confused:
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I think it's more like 35 percent. There are Trump supporters and lean Trump voters. There's a small hope that there are still enough straws out there to break their camels' backs. We know he loses voters from the lean Trump voters and the Obama-Trump voters.
 
Obviously not a fan of Michael Cohen, and no way I'll pay to read his book, but still appreciate that he got a The Lord of the Rings reference in his book :)

I was like Gollum in The Lord of the Rings, lusting after the power that would come from possessing the White House—“my precious”—and I was more than willing to lie, cheat, and bully to win. Trump was the only person I had ever encountered who I believed could actually pull off that feat, and I recognized early the raw talent and charisma and pure ruthless ambition to succeed he possessed. I saw what others didn’t, what others thought was a joke, at their own peril, and that was my true motive. I knew Trump would do whatever was necessary to win. I just lacked the imagination and moral purpose to actually think about what that would mean for America, the world, for me, and for my family. Because here’s the thing: When you sell your soul, you do exactly that: sell your soul.

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Craig4 said:
That's a level of self-awareness I was not expecting.
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Neither did I.

I've read parts of Bolton's book, and the lack of any self-awareness or self-criticism is the most striking part of it (it's also very boring).
The excerpts I've read from Cohen's book are really on an other level
 
Firestone said:
Neither did I.

I've read parts of Bolton's book, and the lack of any self-awareness or self-criticism is the most striking part of it (it's also very boring).
The excerpts I've read from Cohen's book are really on an other level
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Bolton's premise was, "Trump was wrong". Cohen's premise seems to be that, "I was wrong".
 
Venom said:
He says Trump said Obama only got into Harvard because of affirmative action....

Oh dear.
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Stacyhs said:
He's still the same blithering and blathering idiot.
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I don't know, if I were one of the stupidest people in this as well as the mirror universe, I don't think I'd be bullhorning around all the time to make sure as many people, goateed or not, knew it.

But maybe that's just me.
 
Firestone said:
The Guardian with new details about the not so nice Trump family.
Not that it will concern the "family values" voters.
Disloyal also offers Cohen’s side of the story about hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, a porn star, and Karen McDougal, a Playboy model, who claimed affairs with Trump which Trump denies. Those payments, the mechanics of which Cohen explains, are at the heart of an attempt by prosecutors in New York to obtain financial information Trump has refused to disclose.

Cohen says Trump was not concerned that the first lady might leave him.

“I can always get another wife,” he says Trump told him. “That’s no problem for me. If she wants to go, so be it.”
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He speaks in comic book balloonese.
 
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