Trump disparaged Black leaders, minority voters: Ex-lawyer says in new book

Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, has alleged in an explosive new book that the US president disparaged African leaders and was generally dismissive of minority voters in America.

Cohen said in his book, due to be published next week, that the US president had described former South African President Nelson Mandela as a poor leader, according to the Washington Post, which said it had obtained a copy of the book on Saturday.

The former personal lawyer wrote that following Mandela’s death in 2013, Trump used expletives and said, “Mandela f***ed the whole country up. Now it’s a s***hole. F*** Mandela. He was no leader.”

In the 432-page book, titled “The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump,” Cohen pointed to Trump’s obsessive hatred of former US President Barack Obama, claiming that the only reason he got into Columbia University and Harvard Law School was because of “f***ing affirmative action.”

Cohen also recounted Trump’s “low opinion of all black folks,” claiming that the US president once said while ranting about Obama, “Tell me one country run by a black person that isn’t a s***hole. They are all complete f***ing toilets.”

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The former personal lawyer alleged that Trump was dismissive of minorities, and that the then-Republican nominee said during his 2016 presidential campaign that he would not win the Hispanic vote.

“Like the blacks, they’re too stupid to vote for Trump. They’re not my people,” Trump was quoted as saying by Cohen.

Cohen wrote in his book that before winning the presidency, Trump met with prominent evangelical leaders at Trump Tower, and was repelled by them for laying their hands on him in prayer.

“Can you believe that bulls***? Can you believe people believe that bulls***?” Trump said after the meeting.

Cohen also alleged that, “Trump convinced a vast swathe of working-class white folks in the Midwest that he cared about their well-being; the truth was that he couldn’t care less.”

He also accused the president of sexual misconduct and expressing particularly crude comments on women. Trump reportedly told Cohen that he could “have all” of the Miss Universe contestants if he wanted to.

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Cohen called Trump in his yet-to-be-published book an “organized crime don” and “master manipulator” whom he once admired.

Cohen is in jail for tax evasion, false statements and campaign finance violations, the last related to payments to silence women who claimed they had affairs with Trump before the 2016 presidential election.

The Trump’s former lawyer was released to home confinement in May given the risks of catching COVID-19 in prison, but he was briefly imprisoned again in July. A federal judge then ruled Cohen had been subjected to retaliation for planning to publish his book, and ordered him released again.

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