Guardian: From fixer to inmate: Michael Cohen reckons with his 'blind loyalty' to Trump
The
president’s former right-hand man was tearful as he accepted his
three-year sentence: ‘I deserve that pain’
To
hear Cohen tell it – breaking down in tears – he was a man undone
by loyalty to Trump.
I know this may
strike people as odd
but I actually
thought Donald was God.
He, to us mortals,
seems arbitrary
and being near him
can be very scary —
all the demanding
and pouting and shouting.
What, I now wonder, kept me from doubting
that he could be the Divinity?
Was it the generous salary,
which he (albeit)
reluctantly offered
when I burnt
offerings humbly proffered?
Or, in other words