I finished the Michael Cohen book, and it is like emerging from a cesspool of Trump’s loathsome corruption abetted and implemented by a man, greedy and unprincipled himself, caught in the frightening downward spiral into repeating ever more egregious falsehoods on Trump’s behalf, saying only those things that were the Trump message – a message completely divorced from any reality other than the reality that Trump wanted his cult to believe. We see today Cohen’s parade of replacements debasing themselves on TV nightly spouting transparent nonsense.
Here are Cohen’s final warnings to America and the world:
”Please remember what I testified to Congress, the second time: There is a serious danger that Donald Trump will not leave office easily, and there is a real chance of not having a peaceful transition. When he jokes about running again in 2024 and gets a crowd of thousands to chant “Trump 2024,” he’s not joking. Trump never jokes. You now have all the information you need to decide for yourself in November…..
The reason the President wanted a new head prosecutor in the Southern District, I knew better than anyone, was so that while in office, he could arrange to be federally indicted. In the event he loses the election in November, he could then pardon himself, as he’s long claimed to be his right. The reason behind that unprecedented and serpentine thinking was that Trump knows perfectly well that he is guilty of the same crimes that resulted in my conviction and incarceration. He also knows that I would be a star witness in that case, and my book a fundamental piece of evidence for his guilt.
Without the immunity from prosecution granted to the president, Trump will also almost certainly face New York State criminal charges. He would likely be convicted on both the Federal and State charges and face serious prison time. That is Donald Trump’s greatest fear in life, believe me, and if he fails to get reelected, that will be his fate—and he knows it—so silencing me was an essential part of his overall plan to evade the law and avoid that outcome.”
We need to remember that Trump is pathologically narcissistic, which means that he has only one concern – himself. We have seen that catastrophically already as at least 100,000 of the 200,000 people have died of COVID-19 that could have been avoided if he had told the truth about the seriousness of the pandemic rather than diminishing it for the sake of avoiding negative headlines that would hurt his ratings and the stock market on any given day.
This man will do anything to stay in power. Biden knows it as well as I do, and I expect him to be ready.
Cohen, Michael. Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump (p. 345). Skyhorse. Kindle Edition.
