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78 reviews for:
Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump
Michael Cohen
3.65 AVERAGE
78 reviews for:
Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump
Michael Cohen
3.65 AVERAGE
This is as much a description of Cohen's moral bankruptcy as it is about Trump's. But we don't get to hear the details of what a scumbag Trump is without first accepting that Cohen was an important enabler. Actually, I have read a few of these tell-alls, and this is the one that was best organized, well composed and the most interesting reading. I'm completely tuned in to US politics such as it is, but I still learned many things here. Overall, a good read.
Americans love a good redemption story and a good mob film and I look forward to the Scorsese directed film of this memoir.
I know, I'm reading all of the Trump books. It is like I'm compelled to so I can try and understand how we got here.
While Mary Trump's book was a look at how Trump is formed, this book is a good look at how Trump operates, and how so many people can be sucked into his orbit/cult and then easily lose it all.
Here are direct quotes from the Forward that confirm what I thought going in and all are given ample examples in the rest of the book.
Trump has no true friends.
He is capable of behaving kindly, but he is not kind.
To Trump, life was a game, and all that matters was winning.
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...
Rudy Guiliani, William Barr, Jared Kushner, and Mike Pompeo are Trump's new wannabe fixers, sycophants willing to distort the truth and break the law in the service of the Boss.
My keytakeaway is that Rick Wilson's book title, Everything Trump Touches Dies, is still accurate.
I know, I'm reading all of the Trump books. It is like I'm compelled to so I can try and understand how we got here.
While Mary Trump's book was a look at how Trump is formed, this book is a good look at how Trump operates, and how so many people can be sucked into his orbit/cult and then easily lose it all.
Here are direct quotes from the Forward that confirm what I thought going in and all are given ample examples in the rest of the book.
Trump has no true friends.
He is capable of behaving kindly, but he is not kind.
To Trump, life was a game, and all that matters was winning.
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...
Rudy Guiliani, William Barr, Jared Kushner, and Mike Pompeo are Trump's new wannabe fixers, sycophants willing to distort the truth and break the law in the service of the Boss.
My keytakeaway is that Rick Wilson's book title, Everything Trump Touches Dies, is still accurate.
It's hard to imagine rating this higher than 2 stars. It's a disturbing story, and I came away from it unsure of what Cohen was telling the truth about and what he was lying about. I don't doubt that some of it -- maybe even a lot of it -- was true. But it was shallow and only made the author look almost as bad as Trump.
Michael Cohen is not a nice man, yet he is willing to try and explain just why he is not a nice man. The book is somewhat well written and remains interesting throughout. Cohen does present a pretty cogent case for how and why he was attracted to the cult of Trump despite pleading from his family to walk away.
After reading DISLOYAL: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump, I feel like I have a better understanding of Trump world in general. There is really nothing new here, but there is more background and nuance as seen by an insider. Apparently being Trump's fixer was a 24/7 job. Cohen claims to have been the first and last phone call made by Trump on a daily basis. He was privy to the hair thing that he describes as a "flip, flop, flap" followed by a cloud of TRESemmé TRES Two. Cohen also claimed discomfort at being an employee meeting with the boss in his tighty whities.
There is a salacious story about a strip club in Las Vegas that indicates the Steele Dossier may not be completely off-base, and Cohen recounts remarks made about his teenage daughter poolside.
As we move closer and closer to the 2020 election, this book demonstrates all the reasons not to vote for Trump.
After reading DISLOYAL: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump, I feel like I have a better understanding of Trump world in general. There is really nothing new here, but there is more background and nuance as seen by an insider. Apparently being Trump's fixer was a 24/7 job. Cohen claims to have been the first and last phone call made by Trump on a daily basis. He was privy to the hair thing that he describes as a "flip, flop, flap" followed by a cloud of TRESemmé TRES Two. Cohen also claimed discomfort at being an employee meeting with the boss in his tighty whities.
There is a salacious story about a strip club in Las Vegas that indicates the Steele Dossier may not be completely off-base, and Cohen recounts remarks made about his teenage daughter poolside.
As we move closer and closer to the 2020 election, this book demonstrates all the reasons not to vote for Trump.
Seems, understandably, hastily written. Could use a strong editing and higher quality ink. Good background on the slimey behaviors underpinning trumps political career. I sense sincere regret for sacrificing his family on the altar of trump, less so about ushering in the devastation of a trump presidency. He and trump seem to share a mafia don wannabe status. It's not a compliment. He scratches the surface of the disasters he potentiated by schmoozing with evangelicals, hispanics, et al., in service of trump. This may lead to the ruination of our country, or possibly even of Pax Americana. Devastating predictions of the undermining of our American institutions. Had help from the tea party, of course.
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Content Warnings
Minor: Bullying, Sexual assault
It's an unrestrained look at the president and his relation to Cohen. It's interesting but at no point is it easy to feel sorry for him or his plight. All through the book you see how many times he could've done the correct thing and didn't. I learned even more how corrupt Trump is and that was surprising. There just is no bottom. It's a quick read tho.