The president's prior fixer refers to him as a mob boss figure who left racist insults, was driven by hatred for President Barack Obama and engaged in underhanded tactics against opponents.
President Trump regularly referred to Black leaders of foreign nations with racist insults. He had an abiding admiration for President Vladimir V. Putin's willingness to deal with Russia like a private business. And he was consumed with hatred for President Barack Obama.
"As a guideline, Trump expressed low opinions of Black folks, from audio to culture and politics," Mr. Cohen writes in the book, to be published Tuesday.
"Tell me one nation run by a Black person that is not a shithole," Mr. Cohen quotes Mr. Trump as stating. He also explained that Mr. Trump known as Kwame Jackson, a Dark contestant on his reality TV show"The Apprentice," a homophobic slur, which he had profound disgust with Black leaders along with celebrities and sports figures.
He was obsessed with Mr. Obama,'' Mr. Cohen writes. The book clarifies Mr. Trump hiring"a Faux-Bama, or fake Obama, to capture a video where Trump ritualistically belittled the very first Black president and then fired him, a type of dream fulfillment that it had been hard to imagine any adult would invest significant money living out -- he did the functional equivalent in the real world."
The video Mr. Cohen describes appears to be a recording that was likely to be revealed that the first night of the Republican National Convention in 2012, when Mr. Trump had endorsed the party's presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, also insisted on getting time throughout the programming.
Among the revelations from Mr. Cohen, who worked for Mr. Trump for more than a decade, are descriptions of their negotiations during the 2016 campaign using a key official at the Trump Organization about how to pay off an adult-film celebrity who said she had had an affair with Mr. Trump. Mr. Cohen also explains in detail the National Enquirer became a weapon working in tandem with Mr. Trump to harm the businessman's opponents in the 2016 Republican chief.
Asked about the numerous claims in the publication, which The New York Times obtained an advance copy of, the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, was dismissive.
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Mr. Cohen is defiant about these actions in the publication, maintaining that he's innocent of a few of the crimes he pleaded guilty to which he was a victim of"the conviction machine" of the U.S.
government, which also threatened his spouse. He writes in detail about the way he was released from a minimum security prison at Otisville, N.Y., to serve the rest of his sentence at home, just to be thrown back into prison because he would not originally sign a record prohibiting him from releasing the book. A judge later ruled that the move by the government was retaliatory, and Mr. Cohen was discharged to home confinement for the rest of his sentence.
He sheds little new light on which he shared by Robert S. Mueller III, the former special counsel investigating possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russian officials, also asserts that Mr. Trump's soft spot for Mr. Putin is largely about possible business deals and a general admiration for authoritarian power, in addition to a shared hatred of Hillary Clinton.
Mr. Trump loved Mr. Putin for his audacity"to take over an whole state and run it just like it was his personal company -- like the Trump Organization, in fact," Mr. Cohen writes.
The potential for a Trump Tower project in Moscow was enticing to his boss, Mr. Cohen writes,'' stating that the businessman's kids didn't prefer Felix Sater, a felon and adviser with heavy ties to Russia who had brought from the undertaking. So Mr. Cohen handled it,'' he writes. That project became a thing that was examined by Mr. Mueller.
Mr. Cohen clarifies the Trump Organization as loosely indicative of the mafia, with Mr. Trump as the would-be family does.
"As I have been saying since the start, Trump was a mobster, plain and simple," Mr. Cohen writes when describing how he helped organize a softball interview between Megyn Kelly, afterward of Fox News, and Mr. Trump after the candidate had spent days attacking her creating a security hazard for her.
At some other point, Mr. Cohen details how he and David J. Pecker, who was then in charge of The National Enquirer and a friend of Mr. Trump's, ginned up a story -- with Mr. Trump's understanding -- intimate a relation between the father of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who was afterward a main rival, along with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Mr. Cohen describes the allure of working for Mr. Trump as being like a drug, one that he couldn't stop consuming. Mr. Cohen describes, using a sense of shame, his own desire to please Mr. Trump.
He writes that he and Mr. Trump took a visit to Las Vegas, in which the president owns a hotel, in 2013, to meet the Agaralovs, a billionaire Russian dad and son involved in boosting the Miss Universe celebration in Moscow. In Las Vegas, Mr. Cohen explains how he and Mr. Trump watched a sex series with a number of acts.
In some of the newest information, Mr. Cohen clarifies talks he states he had with the Trump Organization's principal financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, about the way to fund payments to Ms. Clifford. At one stage, Mr. Cohen writes, Mr. Weisselberg proposed routing the payment for her through an invoice for one of Mr. Trump's golf courses or by selling a Mar-a-Lago membership to someone whom Mr. Cohen understood. Finally , they agreed that Mr. Cohen would pay it, he writes.
Mr. Cohen writes that he advised Mr. Trump about the payment and that his boss was happy. After the electionwhen Mr. Trump dragged his toes on reimbursing Mr. Cohen, the two men came into an agreement for Mr. Cohen to be reimbursed monthly amid payments.
President Trump regularly referred to Black leaders of foreign nations with racist insults. He had an abiding admiration for President Vladimir V. Putin's willingness to deal with Russia like a private business. And he was consumed with hatred for President Barack Obama.
"As a guideline, Trump expressed low opinions of Black folks, from audio to culture and politics," Mr. Cohen writes in the book, to be published Tuesday.
"Tell me one nation run by a Black person that is not a shithole," Mr. Cohen quotes Mr. Trump as stating. He also explained that Mr. Trump known as Kwame Jackson, a Dark contestant on his reality TV show"The Apprentice," a homophobic slur, which he had profound disgust with Black leaders along with celebrities and sports figures.
He was obsessed with Mr. Obama,'' Mr. Cohen writes. The book clarifies Mr. Trump hiring"a Faux-Bama, or fake Obama, to capture a video where Trump ritualistically belittled the very first Black president and then fired him, a type of dream fulfillment that it had been hard to imagine any adult would invest significant money living out -- he did the functional equivalent in the real world."
The video Mr. Cohen describes appears to be a recording that was likely to be revealed that the first night of the Republican National Convention in 2012, when Mr. Trump had endorsed the party's presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, also insisted on getting time throughout the programming.
Among the revelations from Mr. Cohen, who worked for Mr. Trump for more than a decade, are descriptions of their negotiations during the 2016 campaign using a key official at the Trump Organization about how to pay off an adult-film celebrity who said she had had an affair with Mr. Trump. Mr. Cohen also explains in detail the National Enquirer became a weapon working in tandem with Mr. Trump to harm the businessman's opponents in the 2016 Republican chief.
Asked about the numerous claims in the publication, which The New York Times obtained an advance copy of, the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, was dismissive.
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Jane Fonda, Intergalactic Eco-Warrior in a Red Coat "He has lost all credibility, and it's unsurprising to see his most recent effort to profit from lies." Mr. Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to a couple of financial crimes along with a campaign finance violation linked to the payments to the former adult-film actress, Stephanie Clifford, that went from the stage name Stormy Daniels.
Mr. Cohen is defiant about these actions in the publication, maintaining that he's innocent of a few of the crimes he pleaded guilty to which he was a victim of"the conviction machine" of the U.S.
government, which also threatened his spouse. He writes in detail about the way he was released from a minimum security prison at Otisville, N.Y., to serve the rest of his sentence at home, just to be thrown back into prison because he would not originally sign a record prohibiting him from releasing the book. A judge later ruled that the move by the government was retaliatory, and Mr. Cohen was discharged to home confinement for the rest of his sentence.
He sheds little new light on which he shared by Robert S. Mueller III, the former special counsel investigating possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russian officials, also asserts that Mr. Trump's soft spot for Mr. Putin is largely about possible business deals and a general admiration for authoritarian power, in addition to a shared hatred of Hillary Clinton.
Mr. Trump loved Mr. Putin for his audacity"to take over an whole state and run it just like it was his personal company -- like the Trump Organization, in fact," Mr. Cohen writes.
The potential for a Trump Tower project in Moscow was enticing to his boss, Mr. Cohen writes,'' stating that the businessman's kids didn't prefer Felix Sater, a felon and adviser with heavy ties to Russia who had brought from the undertaking. So Mr. Cohen handled it,'' he writes. That project became a thing that was examined by Mr. Mueller.
Mr. Cohen clarifies the Trump Organization as loosely indicative of the mafia, with Mr. Trump as the would-be family does.
"As I have been saying since the start, Trump was a mobster, plain and simple," Mr. Cohen writes when describing how he helped organize a softball interview between Megyn Kelly, afterward of Fox News, and Mr. Trump after the candidate had spent days attacking her creating a security hazard for her.
At some other point, Mr. Cohen details how he and David J. Pecker, who was then in charge of The National Enquirer and a friend of Mr. Trump's, ginned up a story -- with Mr. Trump's understanding -- intimate a relation between the father of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who was afterward a main rival, along with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Mr. Cohen describes the allure of working for Mr. Trump as being like a drug, one that he couldn't stop consuming. Mr. Cohen describes, using a sense of shame, his own desire to please Mr. Trump.
He writes that he and Mr. Trump took a visit to Las Vegas, in which the president owns a hotel, in 2013, to meet the Agaralovs, a billionaire Russian dad and son involved in boosting the Miss Universe celebration in Moscow. In Las Vegas, Mr. Cohen explains how he and Mr. Trump watched a sex series with a number of acts.
In some of the newest information, Mr. Cohen clarifies talks he states he had with the Trump Organization's principal financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, about the way to fund payments to Ms. Clifford. At one stage, Mr. Cohen writes, Mr. Weisselberg proposed routing the payment for her through an invoice for one of Mr. Trump's golf courses or by selling a Mar-a-Lago membership to someone whom Mr. Cohen understood. Finally , they agreed that Mr. Cohen would pay it, he writes.
Mr. Cohen writes that he advised Mr. Trump about the payment and that his boss was happy. After the electionwhen Mr. Trump dragged his toes on reimbursing Mr. Cohen, the two men came into an agreement for Mr. Cohen to be reimbursed monthly amid payments.