"From golden showers in a sex club in Vegas, to tax fraud, to deals with corrupt Russian officials."

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand

👀"From golden showers in a sex club in Vegas, to tax fraud, to deals with corrupt officials from the former Soviet Union, to catch and kill conspiracies to silence Trump’s clandestine lovers, I wasn’t just a witness to the president’s rise—I was an active and eager participant."

Michael Cohen @MichaelCohen212

The day has finally arrived. I have waited a long time to share my truth. To read the foreword and pre-order my book DISLOYAL, visit https://disloyalthebook.com

3:52 PM · Aug 13, 2020

Boom!

[nolabear]

1. Whoaaaa. Off to check it out.

[NurseJackie]

53. I also firmly believe that Ivanka is a victim of sexual abuse...

... I get the feeling that (event though she's an adult) she's been brainwashed to believe it's okay and "their special secret". Which also explains the creepy photos and "knowing" winks and feigned-embarrassment, and the kisses, and inappropriate sexual touching.

[nolabear]

61. She's a cipher, that one.

I’m not as sure of sexual abuse per se but I do think she’s in the exact position Spanky was as a kid, having to be The Anointed One, but with sexuality all mixed up in there for sure. She married as close to a Eunuch as she could get, she almost literally has no character that doesn’t reflect her father.

Weren’t she and a Chelsea Clinton friends at one time? Am I imagining that? Maybe there’s a person in there somewhere but it’s hard to find.

[barbtries]

67. totally agree

he was probably on her by the time she was 13 if not sooner. the pervert.

[dixiegrrrrl]

77. Zero doubt in my mind.

All one has to do is see the pics of her with trump, as a young girl.
Sadly, the more we know of Trump's sexual issues, of those more than a dozen out of court settlements with families of boys and girls he molested... there is a possibility she was made to be with other men re:Epstein history.

Unfortunately, we know these days that young victims of incest often grow up emotionally damaged.

that's something her future defense attorney may want to be aware of.

[lagomorph777]

88. Whooooaaaaaahhhh indeed! Same word popped into my head.

[FM123]

2. I don't begrudge Cohen for writing his book.

He showed up testified and spilled the tea before he wrote his book. John Bolton - not so much. He could have shared info in trump but Bolton held out so he could make a few bucks on his book. I'm ok with Cohen getting published.

[samnsara]

22. same here...hes taking a big chance taking on trump*

[jaxexpat]

34. Bolton makes Cohen look like a choir boy.

[jaxexpat]

35. Bolton makes Cohen look like a choir boy.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. The Famous

Gentleman's clubs in old down town Vegas.

[genxlib]

4. This will be meaningless

Unless he has tapes, videos, receipts, pictures, etc.

Show the proof or shut up. Otherwise, it is just an opportunity for you to profit off of enabling a scumbag.

[RT Atlanta]

8. likely sourced/verifiable in some capacity

doubt the publisher would take on the litigation risk without a means to verify the assertions from Mr. Cohen.

[Leghorn21]

9. I'm expecting EXACTLY the same, g

Canceled checks, memos, emails, mail mails - RECEIPTS, else I’ll be

[steve2470]

21. yes hopefully he has some proof of this

Trump can bat this away too easily as a disgruntled former employee. I believe it, but hell I'm biased.

[Blue_true]

40. It is going to mean something. He was a loyal henchman until Trump

stabbed him in the back. I read that Cohen DID maintain secret recordings of all his interactions. Even if he didn’t record Trump, he would have recorded the nasty stuff that he did on Trump’s behalf.

Even without recordings, the allegations appear to confirm some of the stuff about Trump, the love of golden showers, the NDAs and payoffs to shut women that he had extra-marital sex with up, etc.

[PatSeg]

41. Oh, I'm thinking that Cohen

has a lot of documentation to back up his allegations. It appears that over the years, he was a saver and he was known to even record conversations with his boss. That is probably why Trump tried to get him back in prison and solitary confinement.

[Hortensis]

45. Genx, we ALREADY know he taped and documented

at least many of Trump's crimes he was involved in. Much of it's already in the hands of federal prosecutors.

But this book is mainly to hurt him with swing voters, the wobbly once-loyal Republicans.

Hopefully you don't really want him to shut up and not hurt Trump, because the book's out.

[genxlib]

54. I definitely want him to hurt Trump

I just don't think he will unless he comes with some kind of proof.

We have seen way too many books with very damaging information get ignored. It would be naive of me to believe this will change unless there is something that can't be ignored to support it.

I wouldn't doubt that he had proof at some time. But I would wonder if he has access to it all since it was taken from him by the Feds. Don't know how that works and whether he would get it back after the trial.

[Hortensis]

82. Come on, this is the liars' and fools' world, where the allegation

is the crime.

Remember that evil bitch Hillary and her sinister plots to give everyone universal healthcare coverage and very low-cost electricity courtesy of solar cells on all our roofs? If it weren't for the Secret Service, she'd have been torn to pieces by one of many angry mobs, the only question if the murderers were LW or RW.

When things go well, the allegations are actually true and, yes, can be proven in court. But don't forget that many already have been. And many on hole hopefully will be once Trump is once again a private citizen.

[zentrum]

64. Interesting point

[Hekate]

70. IIRC Cohen had rented storage containers chock full of evidentiary materials

Would be interesting to know what became of it all after he turned it over

[johnnyfins]

79. it's with all of the Epstein evidence from his Manhattan mansion

[paleotn]

75. If he had any sense at all....

he's got just that. Common practice for mob lawyers and their contemporaries. Files and things in a very, very safe place. One even the feds don't know about. It's useful for all kinds of reason. Staying alive being one. I'm sure he knows the ins and outs of libel too, being a Trump lawyer. I figure he's got his bases covered, but time will tell.

[progressoid]

89. +1

[Leghorn21]

5. BOOM, indeed!!

OH HOLY HELL, Y’ALL!!


Mikie’s goin nukular!!

HOT DAMN

[Jim__]

6. Wow! Wonder what that will do to his evangelical support. - n/t

[Squinch]

11. Nothing. Hypocracy keeps them alive. Like oxygen for you and me.

[bluestarone]

58. EXACTLY!!

I can just hear THEM now. HE ask God to forgive him. AND GOD DID! I say BULLSHIT!!

[iscooterliberally]

33. Probably make them drool for more. n/t

[Ferrets are Cool]

38. If grabbin em by the P* didn't drive them away

NOTHING WILL They are all fucking hypocrites.

[Blue_true]

43. The evangelicals that I know always seem to have side romances.

They are typically the most disgusting people that I have to deal with. The greed, lust, and treachery, better not turn your back on them. Trump is their type of person.

[WyattKansas]

84. Of all the women I've dated, evangelical women quickly pushed for sex.

When I would say that I thought that they were suppose to be more proper, they explained that sex was everywhere in the bible, so it didn't matter. Their reputation never seemed to matter and they thought loyalty was only good for a fake image of themselves.

[CatWoman]

7. Trump's alter ego is R. Kelly

Who knew?

[Squinch]

10. I cannot wait for this book!!!!!

[Blue_true]

44. Hopefully it drops in the next two months and get plenty of Press coverage.

No wonder Barr tried to send him back to prison.

[MLAA]

12. Hmmm I clicked on place order, then get a bad website....

Hope he is overwhelmed with orders!

[MelissaB]

15. Yup! Site is getting slammed.

[Blue_true]

47. They should sell it on Amazon. Likely will once they see that they can't

keep up with the traffic.

[nolabear]

13. Downloaded and read the Forward. He's an awful writer but man, what a potboiler!

I’m going to really enjoy the commentary about this. I don’t know if I’ll read it, but prurient interest could take over!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. Yeah, he's not much of a writer - Mary Trump is much better -

but the preface, although a bit overheated, was fascinating, and I expect the book itself will be very interesting reading.

[Blue_true]

49. His book on top of Mary Trump's book should finish support for Trump from everyone

but evangelicals (the ultimate hypocrits).

[JHB]

65. Should but won't.

The evangelicals aren't the only hypocrites in the country, They don't have a monopoly on self-righteously believing their own advertising.

[erronis]

72. Excellent point. I think it goes along with being a "human" (or any other animal/plant.)

Self preservation, greed, lust, power, survival, dominance,

[JDC]

39. You're right. "I pulled into the service station to get coffee, black no sugar."

Reminds me of campy, old time radio dialogue. I read the whole forward though and am gonna read the book anyhow.

[klook]

50. "Late at night, in a city that knows how to keep its secrets,

a solitary window glows bright in the Acme Building."



This should be a nice counter-narrative to the Nobel Peace Prize horseshit -- I hope.

[JDC]

68. Lol

[nolabear]

74. Yeah, he's read too much noir. But hey, if it works...

He could do it in haiku with a hip-hop subtext and I’d support it if it worked.

[Native]

71. He writes exactly as I imagined he would...

If he was any better of a writer, I think it would have taken away from the book. I mean, seriously, this guy?

[nolabear]

76. LOL--true dat.

[czarjak]

90. Thanks for the refresher. When you're stupid enough to laud Kellyanne Conway...

You’re stupid enough. Period.

[mainer]

73. He is not an awful writer. He's visceral and arresting.

And I make my living as a writer.

[nolabear]

78. I'm a writer too. For what it is, it's consistent. But it's florid.

Sam Spade works to an extent and if it was fiction I could see it as character structure but given it’s memoir his self-characterization made me snort, then laugh, then think he’s lying, then think he’s imitating noir, then keep reading. From the keep reading perspective there’s something there but I stick by my criticism.

Damn if I don’t want to read it though.

[Ohiogal]

14. Won't make a bit of difference to the racists.

They won’t care about any of it as long as he keeps on screwing the people they hate.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. Here's a link to the preface:

https://disloyalthebook.com/download-the-disloyal-foreword-written-by-michael-cohen/

I really want to read the book. It's not on Amazon yet but I'll pounce when it is. Maybe he's not announcing a release date so Trump won't try to delay publication.

[samnsara]

20. the pre order sites been crashing..seems like everyone wants it..

[dalton99a]

18. An absolute low life piece of shit.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

25. Who, Cohen or Trump?

Cohen might be exactly that, but it doesn't mean he's lying.

[dalton99a]

26. Trump.

[samnsara]

19. the sites crashed.. i want my signed copy :(

[MLAA]

23. I got as far as hitting the PayPal button now spinning again...

[NightWatcher]

30. Its only 40 (instead of 32.50) for a signed one. That is something morbid that's going on my shelf.

[dalton99a]

24. "I'm certain that Trump knows he will face prison time if he leaves office"

Now, sitting alone in an upstate New York prison, wearing my green government-issued uniform, I’ve begun writing this story longhand on a yellow legal pad. I often wrote before dawn so not to be disturbed in my thoughts when my fellow inmates awoke. I had to report to the sewage treatment plant where some of us worked for a wage of $8 a month. As the months passed by and I thought about the man I knew so well, I became even more convinced that Trump will never leave office peacefully. The types of scandals that have surfaced in recent months will only continue to emerge with greater and greater levels of treachery and deceit. If Trump wins another four years, these scandals will prove to only be the tip of the iceberg. I’m certain that Trump knows he will face prison time if he leaves office, the inevitable cold Karma to the notorious chants of “Lock Her Up!” But that is the Trump I know in a nutshell. He projects his own sins and crimes onto others, partly to distract and confuse but mostly because he thinks everyone is as corrupt and shameless and ruthless as he is; a poisonous mindset I know all too well. Whoever follows Trump into the White House, if the President doesn’t manage to make himself the leader for life, as he has started to joke about—and Trump never actually jokes- will discover a tangle of frauds and scams and lawlessness. Trump and his minions will do anything to cover up that reality, and I mean anything.

[Catherine Vincent]

60. This right here...

Is what we've always thought:

"He projects his own sins and crimes onto others, partly to distract ..."

[mfcorey1]

66. Does that mean murder? I am asking for a whole lot of friends! (referring to last sentence)

[Mr.Bill]

27. Trump: "Known convicted liar Michael Cohen...

bla, bla, bla, bla…" Exactly what they all said when he testified before Congress. And unfortunately, that was all we heard. I hope this goes differently. It will when we take over the White House and Senate.

[colorado_ufo]

28. Michael, thank you for releasing this right before the election!

Revenge is truly a dish best served cold - especially when it brings some cold case along with it!

Hope your book is successful. You lived your life as a major league jerk, but you seem sincerely intent on some degree of redemption, and I support that.

[Yavin4]

29. Well, now we know where his orange hue comes from. n/t

[marble falls]

31. Hoooooooly Moly!!! And I thought "Call me Ishmeal!" was a pretty gutsy first line of a book.

[octoberlib]

32. Definitely want to read this.

Both sides were wrong. I knew that the reality was much more complicated and dangerous. Trump had colluded with the Russians, but not in the sophisticated ways imagined by his detractors. I also knew that the Mueller investigation was not a witch-hunt. Trump had cheated in the election, with Russian connivance, as you will discover in these pages, because doing anything—and I mean anything—to “win” has always been his business model and way of life. Trump had also continued to pursue a major real estate deal in Moscow during the campaign. He attempted to insinuate himself into the world of President Vladimir Putin and his coterie of corrupt billionaire oligarchs. I know because I personally ran that deal and kept Trump and his children closely informed of all updates, even as the candidate blatantly lied to the American people saying, “there’s no Russian collusion, I have no dealings with Russia…there’s no Russia


So, please permit me to reintroduce myself in these pages. The one thing I can say with absolute certainty is that whatever you may have heard or thought about me, you don’t know me or my story or the Donald Trump that I know. For more than a decade, I was Trump’s first call every morning and his last call every night. I was in and out of Trump’s office on the 26th floor of the Trump Tower as many as fifty times a day, tending to his every demand. Our cell phones had the same address books, our contacts so entwined, overlapping and intimate that part of my job was to deal with the endless queries and requests, however large or small, from Trump’s countless rich and famous acquaintances. I called any and all of the people he spoke to, most often on his behalf as his attorney and emissary, and everyone knew that when I spoke to them, it was as good as if they were talking directly to Trump.

Apart from his wife and children, I knew Trump better than anyone else did. In some ways, I knew him better than even his family did because I bore witness to the real man, in strip clubs, shady business meetings, and in the unguarded moments when he revealed who he really was: a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man.

There are reasons why there has never been an intimate portrait of Donald Trump, the man. In part, it’s because he has a million acquaintances, pals and hangers on, but no real friends. He has no one he trusts to keep his secrets. For ten years, he certainly had me, and I was always there for him, and look what happened to me. I urge you to really consider that fact: Trump has no true friends. He has lived his entire life avoiding and evading taking responsibility for his actions. He crushed or cheated all who stood in his way, but I know where the skeletons are buried because I was the one who buried them. I was the one who most encouraged him to run for president in 2011, and then again in 2015, carefully orchestrating the famous trip down the escalator in Trump Tower for him to announce his candidacy. When Trump wanted to reach Russian President Vladimir Putin, via a secret back channel, I was tasked with making the connection in my Keystone Kop fashion. I stiffed contractors on his behalf, ripped off his business partners, lied to his wife Melania to hide his sexual infidelities, and bullied and screamed at anyone who threatened Trump’s path to power. From golden showers in a sex club in Vegas, to tax fraud, to deals with corrupt officials from the former Soviet Union, to catch and kill conspiracies to silence Trump’s clandestine lovers, I wasn’t just a witness to the president’s rise—I was an active and eager participant.

[FirstLight]

36. wow

hope he is guarded well...he could be in danger...

[Blue_true]

55. How are you and your daughter doing health wise? Give us an OP to update us, if not a burden. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

37. You mean what happened in Vegas isn't staying in Vegas?

[Blue_true]

56. I met a college student who was years earlier a stripper in Atlanta.

She claimed that Trump was a regular at the club she worked at as an underage stripper. I thought that she was lying and dismissed the claim. I hope that Cohen’s book touch on stuff like what that woman claimed.

[ace3csusm]

42. Yay but we already ready know all of this ....

[LisaL]

46. Well, we speculated about this.

But now its coming straight out of the horses mouth.

[Blue_true]

59. I agree. Cohen's vantage point is vastly different.

He will be able to confirm some of the charges that women were brave enough to make against Trump, because Cohen was the one that threatened those women on Trump’s behalf.

[wiggs]

48. I'm convinced he knows a lot more than he has made public during statements and

hearing. Up until now, I've thought that he was still trying to take a bullet for Trump by describing bad behavior that we already knew about and covering up the rest. I still think that, unless the book proves otherwise

[NurseJackie]

51. So Trump is into garbanzo beans on his face after all.

[Marie Marie]

52. Pee-Pee Book!!!

We never saw the pee-pee tapes but this might do.

[Catherine Vincent]

57. I don't get the big deal with the gold showers

Unless maybe it was with underaged girls.

[Blue_true]

63. People that have fetishes like that usually satisfy them with anyone that meet criteria

in their minds. It could be young women that look a certain way or teen girls.

I hope that the book go into the vapid details of Trump’s sordid life.

[Sparkly]

87. It lends credibility to the reports that the Kremlin had kompromat of the same kind

Among the information Steele obtained was a report that Trump was secretly video recorded in a Moscow hotel room engaging in, or observing, "golden showers." It's known that he was in Moscow a number of times for his pageants, real estate etc., and according to Malcolm Nance this is what Russia does -- they spy on guests and record them.

[peggysue2]

62. Hahahaha!

This should be good. All the skeletons to come tumbling out. Those not buried in Queens, that is.

Golden showers? Do tell. Wasn't the earlier excuse/refutation that Trump was a germaphobe and would never get involved with the nasty?

Michael Cohen better be hunkered down. The big BOOMs are a-coming.

[calimary]

69. As my husband and I both like to say - "SING, my Angel of Music!"

With apologies to Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opera."

[tandem5]

80. *mumbles* treason, treason, blah blah blah, kids in cages -- blah... What? Golden Showers!?

[AmyStrange]

81. Golden showers!

-

Damn, that explains why his hair's yellow and also why his head looks like...

Naw, I'm not going there!
=========

[AmyStrange]

83. Libel is not against the law if...

-

it's true, and there wasn't any malice, and malice doesn't matter when you're talking about a politician. They lose their right to privacy when they become public figures, and that's why parodies are allowed (i.e. SNL).

Trump could still sue Cohen for libel (or maybe not. I'm still a little fuzzy on this aspect of the law), and of course, evidence would help, but Cohen could still get on the stand and tell his story, and Trump would still have to prove he was lying to win.

Would be an interesting court case to watch.
==========

[colsohlibgal]

85. Can't Unsee Those Mental Images

None of us shocks me because he was involved with Epstein and that Maxwell gal.

[DonaldsRump]

86. I just bought a signed copy of Cohen's book

Worst case, after I read it, I'll do the Trumpian thing and give it to a RWNJ for Christmas!

Maybe I'm a bad judge of character, but Michael Cohen today seems like a changed person. He has no reason to lie anymore.

I would be very surprised if Trump still doesn't fight the release of the book on attorney/client privilege grounds.

[dameatball]

91. Rare for me to order a "tell-all" but I just did.