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Michael Cohen offers preview of tell-all Trump book: 'I know where the skeletons are buried'

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Michael Cohen offered a taste of what to expect in his anti-Trump tell-all book „Disloyal, A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney …
Michael Cohen offered a taste of what to expect in his anti-Trump tell-all book „Disloyal, A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump.“ The book, which is set to be released in September, makes several provocative and salacious claims about his time as Trump’s go-to fixer and lawyer before he pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations over hush payments made to women during the 2016 election who alleged having affairs with the then-GOP candidate. „The President of the United States wanted me dead,“ Cohen boldly declared in the forward of his book released on Thursday. „Or, let me say it the way Donald Trump would: He wouldn’t mind if I was dead. That was how Trump talked. Like a mob boss, using language carefully calibrated to convey his desires and demands, while at the same time employing deliberate indirection to insulate himself and avoid actually ordering a hit on his former personal attorney, confidant, consigliere, and, at least in my heart, adopted son.“ Cohen wrote that „the death threats had come by the hundreds“ from Trump supporters after he agreed to cooperate in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, writing „All rats deserve to die, I was told. I was a lowlife Judas they were going to hunt down.“ „For more than a decade, I had been at the center of Trump’s innermost circle. When he came to my son’s bar mitzvah, a generous gesture that I found touching, he told my then thirteen-year-old boy that his Dad was the greatest and that, if he wanted to work at the Trump Organization when he grew up, there would always be a position for him.

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