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WITH HIS TELL-ALL ON DECK, MICHAEL COHEN IS PLOTTING ANTI-TRUMP ADS FOR DEMOCRATS
After throwing his own manuscript into the Passover flames at Otisville to prevent leaks, the presidents ex-lawyer is dropping hints about his tell-all, partnering with a Democratic PAC during the RNC, and gearing up for a potential legal slugfest with Eric and Don Jr.Early in April, Michael Cohen found himself facing a snap decision. Nearly a year into his 36-month sentence at the Otisville federal correctional facility, about 70 miles northwest of his Trump Park Avenue apartment, he had gotten into an altercation with a fellow inmate, who had complained about Cohens phone use. As a result, Cohen was being transferred to the Special Housing Unit, known as the shu or solitary confinement. At any moment, prison guards would arrive to pack up his belongings. This process sometimes meant guards would discard contraband or things they thought were trash, and Cohen panicked. Hidden in his cell was a 500-odd page preliminary manuscript for the tell-all he had decided to call Disloyal. He knew the guards largely supported Donald Trump, Cohens former boss and a subject of the book. He also knew they sometimes leaked things about him or other high-profile inmates in his minimum-security camp. That manuscript would be a jackpot.
It happened to be the first night of Passover, the holiday for which Jewish people forgo leavened bread and replace it with matzah, and Otisville houses a fair number of Orthodox inmates who were preparing to observe. As such, theyd built a customary fire to torch the hametzleavened productson the premises. Cohen grabbed his manuscript, made his way to the fire, and dropped the pages in.
Luckily, his wife had a copy of the manuscript on a thumb drive. Cohens book is now set to be released in the coming weeks, after years of speculation about what he may have witnessed. The foreword of the book, which Cohen published on his website earlier this month, fans the flames. I know where the skeletons are buried because I was the one who buried them, it reads. 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 Trumps 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 Trumps clandestine lovers, I wasnt just a witness to the presidents riseI was an active and eager participant.
Cohen told people that after he posted the foreword online, his website crashed. He upped its bandwidth, but a half hour later it supposedly crashed again. The book shot up the Amazon charts, even without a powerhouse publisher. Like his boss, Cohen has often been his own best marketer. It helped that the book has been a subject of fascination since before he wrote a single word. At least four members of Congress asked him if he planned to write a book when he testified on Capitol Hill in the winter of 2019. Will you today commit to donate any further proceeds to book deals, to film reviews, to charity? asked Rep. Michael Cloud. Cohen said he would not.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/08/michael-cohen-is-plotting-anti-trump-ads
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WITH HIS TELL-ALL ON DECK, MICHAEL COHEN IS PLOTTING ANTI-TRUMP ADS FOR DEMOCRATS (Original Post)
Zorro
Aug 2020
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Gothmog
(145,291 posts)1. Here is the ad
onetexan
(13,041 posts)2. Thank you for posting this. Powerful!