President Donald Trump accused his former lawyer Michael Cohen of perjury Friday, saying a manuscript Cohen wrote last year that complemented Trump contradicted his scathing testimony to Congress this week. "Wow, just revealed that Michael Cohen wrote a 'love letter to Trump' manuscript for a new book that he was pushing," Trump tweeted Friday.
"Book is exact opposite of his fake testimony, which now is a lie!" "Michael Cohen's book manuscript shows that he committed perjury on a scale not seen before." Cohen, who worked for the president for a decade as his top "fixer" at the Trump Organization, assailed his ex-boss as "a racist... a conman... a cheat" in testimony Wednesday to the House Oversight Committee.
But in a book proposal Cohen sent to publishers in early 2018 - before he was sentenced to three years in prison for crimes related to his work for Trump - the attorney promised a glowing picture of the real estate billionaire.
The manuscript was titled "Trump Revolution: From the Tower to the White House, Understanding Donald J. Trump" - and according to the Daily Beast, it was aimed at offsetting books deeply critical of the president.