MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “He has spent months inside his Park Avenue apartment glued to cable news, his legal bills growing and federal prosecutors amassing evidence against him they would use as leverage. He watched his onetime friend and former boss, now the president of the United States, smear him on Twitter and make vague, public threats about his family. His work for Donald J. Trump, and the lies he told about it, are sending him to prison for years. On Tuesday [2-26-19], his law license was revoked. On Wednesday [2-27-19], Michael D. Cohen exacted his revenge. It was a nasty, public breakup of a New York relationship forged over a decade that was a mix of the bond between a father and son, the professional distance of a lawyer and client, and — as Mr. Cohen and associates have described it — the blind devotion of a henchman to a crime boss.”
–Mark Mazzetti and Maggie Haberman, “Trump vs. Cohen: The Breakup of a New York Relationship,” The New York Times online, February 27, 2019