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Michael Cohen is scathing about Donald Trump. So why did he spend years enabling him? | Arwa Mahdawi

The president’s former fixer has written a tell-all that is supposedly a mea culpa. Except he doesn’t seem all that sorry
Call of duty? ... Michael Cohen in a Trump Tower gold elevator. Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Once upon a time people who were very good at lying made a living writing fiction. Now they write memoirs.After spending years as Donald Trump’s self-described fixer, Michael Cohen has reinvented himself and is now hawking a memoir. Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J Trump was published today and has already generated endless headlines.

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