Every Dog Has His Day

Michael Cohen once said he’d take a bullet for Donald Trump. His view changed after the Trump justice department sent him to jail for his role in covering up Trump’s payments to hide sexual liaisons with Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal. Cohen was sentenced to three years in federal prison, though his sentence was converted to home confinement due to COVID-19 after serving over a year in prison. Trump tried to have Cohen put back in jail after revealing plans to write a book about Trump, but those efforts failed. That book was titled Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump, and a second book was titled Revenge: How Donald Trump Weaponized the US Department of Justice Against His Critics.

Once Cohen finished his home confinement. He went on a seemingly non-stop book tour, appearing on any television show that would have him while he discredited Trump. One of his stops before his sentencing was the House Oversight Committee, where he outlined how Trump routinely overstated or underestimated property values to obtain better interest rates or pay reduced taxes as it benefitted him.

“It was my experience that Mr. Trump inflated his total assets when it served his purposes, such as trying to be listed amongst the wealthiest people in Forbes, and deflated his assets to reduce his real estate taxes. I am sharing with you two newspaper articles, side by side, that are examples of Mr. Trump inflating and deflating his assets, as I said, to suit his financial interest.”

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