Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen says book will show how president cheated in 2016 election with Russian help
- Doing anything to win has always been president’s ‘business model and way of life’, former fixer says in foreword to Disloyal, A Memoir
- Cohen worked closely with Trump for years before turning against him, most publicly in testimony to Congress last year before president’s impeachment
Michael Cohen, US President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, on Thursday promised to show how Trump cheated in the 2016 election with Russian help in an upcoming book titled Disloyal, A Memoir.
“Trump had cheated in the election, with Russian connivance, as you will discover in these pages, because doing anything – and I mean anything – to ‘win’ has always been his business model and way of life,” Cohen writes in the book’s foreword, which was published online on Thursday.
The 3,700-word foreword does not reveal anything new about Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, and it was not clear if the book would.
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller last year concluded that Russia waged a major campaign to help Trump to victory in 2016.
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Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer Michael Cohen testifies to US Congress
Mueller did not find evidence of a criminal conspiracy between Trump’s campaign and Russia, but he did detail extensive contacts between the campaign and Russian operatives.
Cohen worked closely with Trump for years before turning against him, most publicly in testimony to Congress last year before Trump’s impeachment.
