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iluvtennis

(19,844 posts)
Fri Nov 2, 2018, 05:26 PM Nov 2018

Michael Cohen claims Trump made repeated racist references

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/02/politics/michael-cohen-trump-racist-remarks/index.html

ashington (CNN)Michael Cohen claimed that President Donald Trump used racist language in several private conversations with him during the time he worked as Trump's personal lawyer and "fixer."

In an interview with Vanity Fair that published Friday, Cohen recalled four times that Trump made denigrating comments to him about black people.

CNN has confirmed from a source close to Cohen that the Vanity Fair story and quotes are accurate. The White House did not respond to Vanity Fair's multiple requests for comment. CNN has also reached out to the White House for comment.

Cohen alleged that Trump made a disparaging comment about African-American voters when they were discussing the turnout for one of his 2016 campaign rallies.

I told Trump that the rally looked vanilla on television. Trump responded, 'That's because black people are too stupid to vote for me,' " the President's former lawyer told the magazine.


Cohen claimed that when South African leader Nelson Mandela died, Trump remarked, "'Name one country run by a black person that's not a s***hole,' and then he added, 'Name one city.'"

He said that when he and Trump were traveling to Chicago in the late 2000s, "we were going from the airport to the hotel, and we drove through what looked like a rougher neighborhood."

"Trump made a comment to me, saying that only the blacks could live like this," Cohen told Vanity Fair.


Cohen also claimed that Trump said "there's no way'" he could let an African-American contestant from season one of "The Apprentice" be the reality show's winner.

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No surprise to me that Trump is a racist.
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Michael Cohen claims Trump made repeated racist references (Original Post) iluvtennis Nov 2018 OP
Just confirming what we already knew. InAbLuEsTaTe Nov 2018 #1
I guess he never visited Appalachia? allgood33 Nov 2018 #2
It was known before that he was a racist and now he's the President Hav Nov 2018 #3
His father before him was also a bigtime Golden Raisin Nov 2018 #4

Hav

(5,969 posts)
3. It was known before that he was a racist and now he's the President
Fri Nov 2, 2018, 06:06 PM
Nov 2018

This will only help him with his base who think exactly like that.

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