Article snippet: Michael Cohen was at a breaking point. He told friends he was suicidal. He insisted to lawyers he would never go to jail. Most of all, he feared that President Trump, his longtime boss, had forsaken him. “Basically he needs a little loving and respect booster,” one of Cohen’s legal advisers at the time, Robert Costello, wrote in a text message to Rudy Giuliani, the president’s lead lawyer. “He is not thinking clearly because he feels abandoned.” That was in June. The “booster” from Trump never arrived. And by August, Cohen’s relationship with him had gone from fraught to hostile, casting a shadow on the Trump presidency and helping drive multiple criminal investigations into the president’s inner circle, including some that continued after the special counsel’s work ended. In the biggest blow to the president personally, federal prosecutors in Manhattan effectively characterized Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal case against Cohen involving hush money payments to a pornographic film actress. Cohen, and evidence gathered by prosecutors, implicated the president. Now, as Cohen prepares to head to prison in two weeks, dozens of previously unreported emails, text messages and other confidential documents reviewed by The New York Times suggest that his falling out with Trump might have been avoidable. Missed cues, clashing egos, veiled threats and unaddressed money worries all contributed to Cohen’s halting decision to turn on a man he had long idoli... Link to the full article to read more