Trump’s ex-lawyer claims he knows why the president is scared to release his tax returns

[Andy Meek]

• Donald Trump has famously resisted making his tax returns public for years.
• Trump's disgraced former lawyer Michael Cohen thinks he knows why.
• In Cohen's new book Disloyal, the former fixer-turned-witness against President Donald Trump says the tax returns would reveal that Trump likely isn't as wealthy as he claims to be, for starters.

Donald Trump's disgraced former lawyer has been on a bit of a promotional tour in recent days to promote his memoir. The book is titled Disloyal, and the ex-lawyer is Michael Cohen, previously a kind of right-hand man to Donald Trump who was by his side for more than a decade. If you believe the book's description on Amazon, it was a time spent engaged in everything from helping the future president inflate his wealth (to skirt tax obligations) or listening to Trump deliver "racist rants against President Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, and black and Hispanic people in general."

Cohen put himself in something of a tough spot credibility-wise, however, with his 180-degree turn from being Trump's "fixer" to a source of alleged dirt on the president in exchange for a more lenient sentence stemming from crimes he was accused of during the Robert Mueller special counsel investigation. Democrats took Cohen's revelations with a grain of salt, considering him an opportunist, while Trumplandia raged that he's just saying whatever he can to escape more trouble.

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