Michael Cohen walked into his apartment building on the Upper East Side Friday evening to begin his home confinement term, ending a weeks-long fiasco that saw him arrested and returned to federal prison for refusing terms of his confinement. …
[Judge Alvin Hellerstein] on Thursday ordered Cohen’s release from Otisville prison, ruling that he was brought into custody by federal authorities on July 9 as ‘retaliation’ for tell-all book that he was planning to write about President Trump. … Hellerstein added that he had never seen a clause in a home confinement agreement that prohibits a defendant from publishing a book in his more than 20 years as a judge.
(New York Post, July 24, 2020)
Except that Americans have already binged on tell-alls by the likes of Omarosa Manigault Newman, Michael Wolff, Chris Christie, John Bolton, and Mary Trump – just to name the obvious ones. Therefore, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Michael Cohen couldn’t possibly have anything to share that hasn’t already been shared.
More to the point, each book essentially tells us what we knew or should have known even before an unholy coalition of evangelicals and hillbillies elected him president of the United States, namely that
Trump is nuts.
But let’s be honest, reading Trump tell-alls is like eating Lay’s potato chips. You know,
You can’t have just one.
For the record, after just one week, Mary Trump is in pole position with 1.35 million sales of her tell-all Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man. No doubt it will drive her crazy uncle even crazier that she has sold more books in one week, chronicling what a failure he is, than the 1.1 million he has sold in 33 years – with Trump: The Art of the Deal, touting what a success he is.
But I don’t put it past Michael to suddenly recall so many scandalous tidbits about Trump that his tell-all becomes a mash up of The Godfather by Mario Puzo, Caligula: The Corruption of Power by Anthony A. Barrett, and The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight by Jimmy Breslin.
Forget its first week, such a book would surely sell millions on its first day, no?
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