Summary of Michael Cohen's Disloyal

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Get the Summary of Michael Cohen's Disloyal in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: About the Original Book In the book "Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump" by Michael Cohen, Cohen an American attorney and businessman. Who acted as Special Counsel to President Donald J. Trump from 2017-2018 and as Executive VP for the Trump Organization writes about Trump's 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.

The book also exposes the fact that Trump engaged in tax fraud by inflating his wealth or electronic fraud by rigging an online survey, or outing Trump's Neanderthal views towards women or his hush-money payments to clandestine lovers. It also went ahead to describe Trump as a con man who will do or say absolutely anything to win, regardless of the cost to his family, associates, or his country.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jan 25, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638150237

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

President Donald Trump is a man who sees everything as an opportunity for personal gain, and he has a history of using his wealth, power, and celebrity to get whatever he wants.

#2

Trump’s nearly constant use of the word great is not a myth – that is how he talks. Hyperbole is his instinctual method of communication, exaggerating his own talents and wealth and physical characteristics and achievements, as if by enlarging things he could make them real.

#3

Trump didn’t actually own Trump Mortgage. Like many of his businesses, there was a licensing agreement, paying Trump royalties for the use of his name, a structure which shielded him from liability, but also meant he had no equity in the business.

#4

Working for Trump, Michael Cohen was made to cross moral, ethical, and ultimately criminal boundaries. Trump began by testing his fealty and submissiveness, the way a gang leader assesses a new recruit, giving the wannabe small crimes to commit to see how loyal he is.

#5

Cohen’s wife strongly disapproved of what Cohen was doing,