The Trump administration is no longer trying to stop Michael Cohen, the president’s former lawyer, from publishing a tell-all memoir, The Washington Post reports.
The Department of Justice reached an agreement with Cohen and his legal team that stipulates there will be “no specific media agreement” in Cohen’s terms of release from prison.
Cohen is serving a three-year sentence for fraud and campaign finance violations. He served a year of the sentence in prison before being released to serve the rest of the sentence in house arrest.
He was sent back to prison earlier this month, and claimed that his return to the jail was an act of retaliation by the government because he was planning to write a book about the Trump administration. A federal judge agreed, and ordered him released from prison.
Cohen said that his planned memoir, tentatively titled Disloyal: The True Story of Michael Cohen, Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump, will contain “graphic and unflattering details” about Trump, including “the President’s pointedly anti-Semitic remarks and virulently racist remarks against such Black leaders as President Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela, neither of whom he viewed as real leaders or as worthy of respect by virtue of their race.”
Cohen has not said whether he’s sold the book to a publisher.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
