Michael Cohen Talks About New Book, Trump's Legal Tactics

Donald Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen talked to Newsy about his new book, "Revenge: How Donald Trump Weaponized the U.S. Department of Justice Against His Critics," and openly shared his opinions of Trump.

Cohen said Trump's latest Supreme Court appeal in a legal fight over classified documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate is "what Donald Trump has been doing for years: Delay, delay, delay."

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"What caused me to write the book — it is a call to action for use to overhaul the entire judicial system," he told Newsy. "... to do anything less will result in the destruction of our Democracy."

The book will be released Oct. 11.

"If I wanted to take the easy route, I would have done is what Manafort and others have done: I would have kept my mouth shut and said absolutely nothing ... He would have pardoned me," Cohen continued.

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"The Donald Trump that I knew for over a decade is not the Donald Trump that became president," Cohen said. "He became the worst version of himself imaginable, and honestly, it was not something I was going to allow my family's name to be villainized for.