I was one of the 500 people Michael Cohen threatened | By Trump biographer Michael D'Antonio for CNNOpinion
Michael D'Antonio is the author of the book, "Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success," and co-author with Peter Eisner of"The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence." The opinions expressed in this commentary are the author's. View more opinion articles on CNN.
When Michael Cohen called to threaten me —"You just bought yourself an f-ing lawsuit" — were his exact words, I felt a little special. How many people, I thought, had been subject to such thuggery? Surely it was a rare thing. Michael D'AntonioNow, thanks to Cohen's testimony before Congress, I've learned I wasn't so special after all. Asked to estimate how many folks Trump had asked him to intimidate, Cohen guessed it had been 500 or more. I experienced Cohen's weak imitation of a mobster trying to silence a witness in 2015, as I was finishing a biography of Trump the businessman/TV star. Trump had told me he would announce for president but I wasn't sure he would follow through.
Rep. Gosar scolds Cohen: 'Liar, liar, pants on fire' 02:53He worried that I was going to reveal unpleasant facts about Trump's past, including his bankruptcies and his betrayals of his wives. In fact I did eventually report on those aspects of his life, but it's not like they weren't well known. The problem, I think, was that a biography that deflated the Trump myth wouldn't serve the real estate developer's political purpose.
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