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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
Easy to read, written in a conversational style. Cohen admits to all his failings . . . to a point. He does have some interesting and perceptive details about how Trump operates and how he brings others into his web. The book fails when Cohen leaves out a lot of detail about his dealings with SDNY and the Mueller investigation. Perhaps a bit self-protective about on-going investigations?
Unflinching honest and terrifying. I have a lot of respect for what Cohen has done by telling his story. All Americans should give him the benefit of the doubt...for as some Christians like to say to presumed non-believers: what if you're wrong?
Mary Trump talked about his childhood and Michael Cohen talks about contemporary Trump. I believe the things this man wrote.
3 stars from me. Not a bad book, just not as good as I anticipated. Maybe that was the problem, anticipating the book and what it would tell me. For me, it didn't tell me much that I hadn't guessed already, considering that the antagonist/protagonist of the book is well known (unfortunately) to us. A businessman become President.
I must end this review on a personal note. This book, and the various actors and events in it, reminded me of words said to me in my youth. I think of the very first election I participated in and almost each one until today. I continually heard people tell me, "They need to start running the government like a business." To those people that acted upon that nonsensical impulse, thanks for nothing!
I must end this review on a personal note. This book, and the various actors and events in it, reminded me of words said to me in my youth. I think of the very first election I participated in and almost each one until today. I continually heard people tell me, "They need to start running the government like a business." To those people that acted upon that nonsensical impulse, thanks for nothing!
Of the three Trumpy books I've read, this sits firmly in the middle. “Too Much And Never Enough” “The Room Where It Happened” and this. With “Too Much” being far and away the best. Trumps personal attorney spills the beans on all the murky practices he and the president engaged in.
Disloyal for me served as further confirmation of Trumps near twisted, often evil nature. Stories of racism which aren't even hard to believe at this point. Trump lusting over 15-year-old girls, while in his 70’s etc. Usual stuff for this guy.
The book sheds light on the Russia and Stromy Daniels affairs. The latter being the porn star Trump bedded while married who he paid hush money to, in an unsuccessful attempt to muzzle her. Cohen was at the centre of all this and speaks on this period in particular detail.
The build up to the presidential win for Trump and the almost resolute acceptance of loss they had all readily accepted was a particularly interesting read.
I appreciate Cohen's honesty; he doesn't at all pretend to be a saint. He lied under oath and was sentenced for doing so.
Cohen doesn't have the flair of pen that Mary J Trump has (Too Much And Never Enough) but does deliver his tale with a no nonsense, sardonic tongue which enhances the whole seedy nature of the book.
Overall quite enjoyable - if you don't like Trump that is.
Disloyal for me served as further confirmation of Trumps near twisted, often evil nature. Stories of racism which aren't even hard to believe at this point. Trump lusting over 15-year-old girls, while in his 70’s etc. Usual stuff for this guy.
The book sheds light on the Russia and Stromy Daniels affairs. The latter being the porn star Trump bedded while married who he paid hush money to, in an unsuccessful attempt to muzzle her. Cohen was at the centre of all this and speaks on this period in particular detail.
The build up to the presidential win for Trump and the almost resolute acceptance of loss they had all readily accepted was a particularly interesting read.
I appreciate Cohen's honesty; he doesn't at all pretend to be a saint. He lied under oath and was sentenced for doing so.
Cohen doesn't have the flair of pen that Mary J Trump has (Too Much And Never Enough) but does deliver his tale with a no nonsense, sardonic tongue which enhances the whole seedy nature of the book.
Overall quite enjoyable - if you don't like Trump that is.
Christ, what an arsehole.
I vowed to not buy any books by anyone who willingly worked in Trumps shit factory, but I made an exception for this, as Cohen seemed pretty self aware that everyone thinks he’s despicable.
I read this immediately after Melania & Me and I really liked the parallels of the 2.
There’s really nothing new or earth shattering in any of the trump books, it’s just the same steam of shit flowing along, but I am interested in the reflections of the people who were there and their different perspectives.
Cohen & SWW both voluntarily boarded the shit ship of shit fools and I have little empathy for either of them. They, like everyone else not named Donald J Trump, were both destined to be used up & discarded, and their willful blindness to this and just how awful the Trumps are, their failure to recognise they’re not special, just useful for a time, grist for the mill, demonstrates their own failures as human beings.
I vowed to not buy any books by anyone who willingly worked in Trumps shit factory, but I made an exception for this, as Cohen seemed pretty self aware that everyone thinks he’s despicable.
I read this immediately after Melania & Me and I really liked the parallels of the 2.
There’s really nothing new or earth shattering in any of the trump books, it’s just the same steam of shit flowing along, but I am interested in the reflections of the people who were there and their different perspectives.
Cohen & SWW both voluntarily boarded the shit ship of shit fools and I have little empathy for either of them. They, like everyone else not named Donald J Trump, were both destined to be used up & discarded, and their willful blindness to this and just how awful the Trumps are, their failure to recognise they’re not special, just useful for a time, grist for the mill, demonstrates their own failures as human beings.
I feel swindled by the swindler himself. Only interesting part was his childhood and how he grew up around mobsters and I think any therapist would agree that’s where his fixer mentality came from
I can’t understand the many high ratings of this book. It adds nothing new about Trump that we don’t already know. Cohen may be starting to see the errors of his way (albeit only after facing consequences for them), but he’s an opportunist and narcissist just like Trump. The book is not well-written and for some reason is printed in extra large font.