Michael Cohen thinks he may know Donald Trump, who he worked with for more than ten years, even better than the president’s own family does. In the forward released Thursday to his forthcoming tell-all book, “Disloyal,” Cohen explained that he saw a side of the president that his close relatives never saw.
“Apart from his wife and children, I knew Trump better than anyone else did,” he wrote. “In some ways, I knew him better than even his family did because I bore witness to the real man, in strip clubs, shady business meetings, and in the unguarded moments when he revealed who he really was: a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man.”
He went on:
There are reasons why there has never been an intimate portrait of Donald Trump, the man. In part, it’s because he has a million acquaintances, pals and hangers on, but no real friends. He has no one he trusts to keep his secrets. For ten years, he certainly had me, and I was always there for him, and look what happened to me. I urge you to really consider that fact: Trump has no true friends. He has lived his entire life avoiding and evading taking responsibility for his actions. He crushed or cheated all who stood in his way, but I know where the skeletons are buried because I was the one who buried them.