Fmr Trump Atty Michael Cohen's Book

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Trump Fired A 'Faux-Bama,' Michael Cohen Says In Tell-All Memoir : NPR

Long before he came into office, Donald Trump was so preoccupied with then-President Barack Obama that he hired a look-alike actor — a "faux-Bama" — to castigate and then pretend to fire on video.

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In Disloyal, Cohen describes the many years he says he spent as a faithful soldier, first as a teenager who read and reread Trump's book The Art of the Deal, later as a successful taxi-medallion owner and personal injury lawyer who bought his dream home in a Trump-branded property on Manhattan's Upper East Side, then as a loyal lieutenant in Trump's inner circle for many years, and finally as a spurned figure whom the president cast aside.

So he was a Trump groupie for a long time. It figures.

Trump on Vladimir Putin:

... "An entire society and civilization bent to the will of a single man was how Trump viewed the ideal historical form of government," Cohen writes. "With him as the man in charge, of course."

It fits very well.

Cohen also alleges several episodes in which he says Trump was casually sexist to women and grabbed women in the Trump Organization office and kissed them on the lips.

Not quite grabbing them by the feline parts, but still the same sort of thing.

In describing the runup to the 2016 presidential election, Cohen describes how the campaign and Trump allegedly used the media to boost him to victory. "The biggest influence by far" in Trump's victory, Cohen argues, "was the media. ... Rallies broadcast live, tweets, press conferences, idiotic interviews, 24-7 wall-to-wall coverage, all without spending a penny."

Trump has been a celebrity since the 1980's, meaning some 35 years of celebrityhood. So he may have a lot of practice in keeping himself publicly visible.

 

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Michael Cohen: In 2016, Then-Candidate Trump Mocked Evangelicals After a Prayer | Hemant Mehta | Friendly Atheist | Patheos

It’s almost infuriating to think that Trump, a man with no principles, could have been a relatable candidate, but came to the conclusion that playing into the hands of those evangelicals and nominating any judges they wanted in exchange for power was a convenient path to the presidency. He was right.

Ivanka, Don Trump Jr. feared dad's 'racist' campaign: book - "The three oldest Trump children privately worried that their father’s attacks on Mexicans and immigrants could damage their brands and social standing, the president’s former personal attorney says in new book."

That was back in 2015.

The three oldest Trump children were so horrified that they wanted their father to quit the race, fearing that a campaign run on divisive fear-mongering about minorities and immigrants could “totally” destroy the family’s reputation, name and brand, Cohen wrote. Don Jr., Ivanka and Eric, all vice presidents at the Trump Organization, saw their “social position and legacy” being “flushed down the drain.”

Even as adult professionals, the Trump children retained a child-like fear of their domineering, “ego-maniacal” father and felt they couldn’t ask him themselves to drop out. So “in desperation,” they approached Cohen.

But Trump didn't stop his bigoted demagoguery.

Trump announced his 2016 bid for president after gliding down the escalator at Trump Tower in Manhattan, accompanied by his equally “tanning-booth bronzed” wife Melania Trump, Cohen wrote. In his announcement, Trump began “spewing things that I found repulsive,” Cohen said. “Mexicans were rapists, he said, even though there was a very nice Mexican man working in Trump Ice Cream on the other side of the atrium no doubt listening in horror.”

As a result, several companies canceled events at Trump properties “at an alarming rate,” MC wrote. When Spanish-language broadcaster Univision did so, Trump threatened to sue.

“These were the early signs of the power dementia that would come to consume Trump during the campaign and then further as president,” Cohen wrote. “It was like he couldn’t stop himself from going lower and lower, seeking to outrage more and more, the thrill of the spotlight bleaching out his few redeeming virtues.”

The three oldest Trump children saw what was happening and “were beside themselves with worry,” Cohen wrote.

“Racist, reactionary, anti-Hispanic weren’t exactly the terms that Ivanka Trump wanted associated with her clothing line,” Cohen wrote. “But she wasn’t going to stand up to her father any more than her brothers were; fear radiated outward from Trump, but it also sent its radioactive waves inwardly into the family.”

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“No one can change his mind on anything,” Cohen said he told them. “I certainly don’t like his position on Hispanics, either, but what can be done?”

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

All those "damning" things about Trumpo is exactly why he got elected.