In a new book out this week, U.S.
President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, alleges that
Trump regarded all African countries and nations run by black people as
“complete toilets”.
The book also said Trump made
disparaging remarks about Black world leaders including former South African
President Nelson Mandela after he died.
In the book, Cohen alleges that
Trump described Mandela as a poor leader and disparaged U.S. minorities in
general, the Washington Post has reported.
According to the newspaper, which
has a copy of the book, Cohen wrote that following Mandela’s death in 2013,
Trump said: “Mandela f—-ed the whole country up. Now it’s a s—-hole. F—-
Mandela. He was no leader.”
Cohen also alleges that Trump
said: “Tell me one country run by a black person that isn’t a s—-hole. They are
all complete f—-ing toilets.”
Trump was previously linked with
making denigrating comments about African countries.
In January 2018, during a
discussion with lawmakers at the White House regarding immigrants, Trump
reportedly exhibited frustration over protecting immigrants from Haiti, El
Salvador, and African countries.
At the time, he allegedly said,
“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” This
alleged comment generated outrage across the US and wider world.
Trump never denied he said so,
when President Muhammadu Buhari visited him in Washington.
“We didn’t discuss it. But you do
have some countries that are in very bad shape,” he said at a joint press
conference with Buhari.
However on Saturday White House
Spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany attacked Cohen’s credibility.
“Michael Cohen is a disgraced
felon and disbarred lawyer, who lied to Congress. He has lost all credibility,
and it’s unsurprising to see his latest attempt to profit off of lies,” McEnany
said in a statement.
Trump has called Cohen “a rat,”
and a liar, and Cohen has said he faced repeated death threats from Trump
supporters.
Trump, a Republican, is seeking re-election
and will face Democrat Joe Biden at the polls on Nov. 3.
At the Republican convention in
August where Trump was formally nominated to appear on the ballot, speakers
defended Trump against past accusations of racism.
Cohen alleged that Trump was
dismissive of minorities, and that Trump said during his 2016 presidential
campaign that he would not win the Hispanic vote, the Washington Post reported.
According to Cohen, Trump said: “Like the blacks, they’re too stupid to vote
for Trump.”
Cohen is serving time for tax
evasion, false statements and campaign finance violations, the last related to
payments to silence women who alleged affairs with Trump before the 2016
presidential election.
He was released to home
confinement in May given the risks of catching COVID-19 in prison, but then 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
Cohen worked closely with Trump
for years before turning against him, most publicly in testimony to Congress
last year prior to Trump’s impeachment.
Now Cohen is serving a three-year
sentence for, among other things, making false statements to Congress.
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