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September 9, 2020

Michael Cohen's New Book Recounts Donald Trump's Racist Diatribes
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President Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen has
released his tell-all book titled "Disloyal: A Memoir," describing Trump
as a mob boss driven by deep-seated racism. Cohen quotes Trump as
saying, "Tell me one country run by a Black person that isn't a s-hole."

Cohen goes on to describe a racist diatribe by Trump after the death of
South Africa's former President Nelson Mandela in 2013. Trump reportedly
said, "Mandela f-ed the whole country up. Now it's a s-hole. F- Mandela.
He was no leader," using the F-word and S-word.

Michael Cohen also writes that Trump was so consumed by his hatred of
President Barack Obama that he hired a "Faux-Bama" to record a video in
which Trump belittles the fake Obama and fires him like a contestant on
Trump's former reality TV show, "The Apprentice." Cohen spoke with NBC
News on Tuesday.

Michael Cohen: "I believe that his hatred for Barack Obama just
basically starts with the fact that he's Black and that he was the first
Black president in this country."



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