The Washington Post has obtained a pre- release copy of former Trump fixer Michael Cohen's book, "Disloyal: A Memoir," scheduled for publication on Tuesday. In the Post's summations, Cohen covers Trump's fascination with Vladimir Putin's wealth, their "confluence of shared interests" in working to defeat Hillary Clinton, and the power of the disinformation campaign Trump supporters like the National Enquirer's former CEO David "Pecker" Pecker that was waged to great effect.
But we were struck again by the passages that paint the by now dry- and- ready- to- frame picture of Trump as a vile racist, misogynist, and hypocrite. If none of this is surprising but all of it's still shocking, you've been paying attention for the last decade or more:
Cohen writes that during the 2016 campaign, Trump was dismissive of minorities, describing them as “not my people.” “I will never get the Hispanic vote,” Cohen recounts Trump claiming. “Like the blacks, they’re too stupid to vote for Trump.”
Cohen describes Trump’s obsessive hatred of Obama, including claiming that the only reason the former president got into Columbia University and Harvard Law School was because of “f---ing affirmative action.” He also recounts Trump’s “low opinion of all black folks.” claiming that Trump once said while ranting about Obama, “Tell me one country run by a black person that isn’t a s---hole. They are all complete f---ing toilets.”
After South African President Nelson Mandela died in 2013, Trump said he did not think Mandela “was a real leader — not the kind he respected,” Cohen writes.
Instead, Cohen writes that Trump praised the country’s apartheid-era White rule, saying: “Mandela f---ed the whole country up. Now it’s a s---hole. F--- Mandela. He was no leader.”
Cohen writes that before winning the presidency, Trump held a meeting at Trump Tower with prominent evangelical leaders, where they laid their hands on him in prayer
Afterward, Trump allegedly said: “Can you believe that bulls--t? Can you believe people believe that bulls--t?”
“The cosmic joke was that Trump convinced a vast swathe of working-class white folks in the Midwest that he cared about their well-being,” Cohen writes. “The truth was that he couldn’t care less.”
The behind- the- scenes Trump portrayed in Cohen's book is a vain shell of a person without scruples, morals, a sense of duty or patriotism -- basically a confirmation of the public Trump that we've witnessed with our own eyes. Absorbing that, who honestly doesn't think he called Americans who died or went MIA in defense of their country "losers" and "suckers"?Cohen also depicts Trump as being crude toward women, including inadvertently commenting on Cohen’s then-15-year-old daughter as she finished up a tennis lesson: “Look at that piece of a--,” Trump said, according to Cohen. “I would love some of that.”
But "losers" and "suckers" -- that's exactly what any con man like Trump thinks of the people who believe in and support him.
