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Michael Cohen explains why Trump likes Putin and what Trump really thinks of his supporters
Trump praised Putin in 2016 because he assumed he'd lose the election, writes Cohen, and wanted to make sure he could borrow money from Russian sources.
Nothing really ground breaking. But Cohen's descriptions of Trump lend credence to all the other books from those who know Trump, describing him as a mentally disturbed and morally debased individual.
Trump praised Putin in 2016 because he assumed he'd lose the election, writes Cohen, and wanted to make sure he could borrow money from Russian sources.
9/7/20
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is an authoritarian, racist sexual predator, according to a new book by his former lawyer and confidant, who says Trump admires ruthless dictators and openly mocks the working-class Americans he has duped into supporting him. In "Disloyal: A Memoir," the lawyer, Michael Cohen, writes that he believes his longtime client won't leave office willingly if he is defeated in the November election. Cohen said Trump praised Russian President Vladimir Putin during the 2016 campaign because he assumed he would lose and wanted to make sure he could borrow money from Russian sources for his real estate empire. As previously detailed in court records, Trump also had dispatched Cohen to try to build a Trump Tower Moscow, a 120-story building in Red Square with a free penthouse apartment for Putin. "The whole idea of patriotism and treason became irrelevant in his mind," Cohen writes. "Trump was using the campaign to make money for himself: of course he was." It wasn't a new concept, Cohen writes. When a Russian oligarch bought Trump's mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, in 2008 for nearly double what Trump paid for it — a $50 million profit — Trump believed Putin was secretly funding the deal, Cohen writes. As he told Congress, Cohen says he was present when Trump discussed a WikiLeaks dump of hacked Democratic emails before their release.
"What appeared to be collusion," Cohen writes, "was really a confluence of shared interests in harming Hillary Clinton in any way possible, up to and including interfering in the American election — a subject that caused Trump precisely zero unease." With Putin, it wasn't just self-interest — Trump genuinely admires the Russian leader, Cohen says. Trump worships wealth and power, Cohen writes. "Everyone other than the ruling class on earth was like an ant, to his way of thinking, their lives meaningless and always subject to the whims of the true rulers of the world," he writes. "The cosmic joke was that Trump convinced a vast swath of working-class white folks in the Midwest that he cared about their well-being. The truth was that he couldn't care less." Throughout the book, Cohen expresses regret for his complicity in all this behavior, portraying himself as a deluded member of a Trump cult. In an exclusive interview "NBC Nightly News" anchor Lester Holt, Cohen said: "Donald Trump will do anything and everything ... to win. And I believe that includes manipulating the ballots."
Nothing really ground breaking. But Cohen's descriptions of Trump lend credence to all the other books from those who know Trump, describing him as a mentally disturbed and morally debased individual.