United States: Michael Cohen, former Trump lawyer, curls president in book

Michael Cohen (left), former lawyer for US President Donald Trump (right).

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Two months before the presidential election, vitriolic books on Donald Trump are multiplying.

After his niece and former adviser John Bolton, it is the turn of the president's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, to publish a book.

Entitled "Disloyal: A Memoir", the book comes out this Tuesday, September 8.

Michael Cohen describes the American president as a liar, a cheater and a con artist.

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With our correspondent in New York,

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 ", which comes out this Tuesday, September 8, Michael Cohen describes a Donald Trump similar to the one mentioned in books released in recent weeks.

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 ": the former lawyer thus multiplies the unflattering adjectives to speak of the American president, his former client.

He assures us that the candidate for his re-election on November 3 would have told him, for example, that blacks and Latinos were " 

 " to vote for Donald Trump.

Obsession for Obama

Michael Cohen

also insists on the billionaire's contempt and obsession for Barack Obama.

According to the lawyer, who publishes a photo of the scene in his book, Donald Trump even recruited a fake Obama to demean him and fire him.

Donald Trump would have kept a video of this staging.

These revelations that are already making noise.

Yet, until not so long ago, Michael Cohen was part of Donald Trump's very close circle.

He was his lawyer between 2006 and 2018. He was sentenced to

for lying to Congress, in order to protect the president in matters related to the 2016 campaign.

The White House issued a statement describing Michael Cohen as " 

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 " the statement concluded.

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