NATIONWIDE — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former attorney and fixer, released the foreword of his upcoming book Thursday, offering a glimpse into the salacious tell-all due out next month.
The book, “Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump,” will be released Sept. 8 by Skyhorse Publishing, The Associated Press reported. Much of it was written from Cohen’s prison cell after he pleaded guilty to campaign finance charges related to paying hush money to a porn actress and Playboy model whom the president allegedly had affairs with, and for lying to Congress.
“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,” Cohen writes in the book.
The foreword begins with Cohen writing that Trump “wouldn’t mind if I was dead” and comparing the president to a “mob boss.” He also calls Trump “a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man.”
“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,” Cohen writes. “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.”
Cohen also alleges Trump worked with Russians during his 2016 campaign and claims the president lied when he repeatedly said, “There’s no Russian collusion, I have no dealings with Russia…there’s no Russia.”
“Trump had colluded with the Russians, but not in the sophisticated ways imagined by his detractors,” Cohen wrote. “I also knew that the (Special Counsel Robert) 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.
Cohen also claims he arranged back-channel communications between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Mueller’s investigation did not establish that Trump or his campaign conspired with the Russian government in its interference into the election. Mueller also did not reach a conclusion on whether the president obstructed justice, but his report did not exonerate Trump, either.
Cohen is serving the remainder of his three-year sentence in home confinement. Last month, a judge ruled that a decision by probation officers to return Cohen to prison amounted to retaliation for the book he was writing. Federal prosecutors, however, denied that was the motivating factor and have since dropped a provision in Cohen’s home-confinement agreement that would’ve barred him from publishing a book.