One of Trump’s most trusted advisors is turning on his boss and spilling the beans, or alleged beans anyway, about supposed racist statements he made to Cohen.
Michael Cohen told Vanity Fair that he’s doing it because he thinks Trump has gotten worse since getting into office.
Here are the allegations he made:
During our conversation, Cohen recalled a discussion at Trump Tower, following the then-candidate’s return from a campaign rally during the 2016 election cycle. Cohen had watched the rally on TV and noticed that the crowd was largely caucasian. He offered this observation to his boss. “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 White House did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)
This conversation, he noted, was reminiscent of an exchange that the two men had engaged in years earlier, after Nelson Mandela’s death. “[Trump] said to me, ‘Name one country run by a black person that’s not a shithole,’ and then he added, ‘Name one city,’” Cohen recalled, a statement that echoed the president’s alleged comments about African nations earlier this year. (White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders denied those comments at the time. She added that “no one here is going to pretend like the president is always politically correct—he isn’t.” She subsequently noted that it was “one of the reasons the American people love him.”)
After the first few seasons of The Apprentice, Cohen recalled how he and Trump were discussing the reality show and past-season winners. The conversation wended its way back to the show’s first season, which ended in a head-to-head between two contestants, Bill Rancic and Kwame Jackson. “Trump was explaining his back-and-forth about not picking Jackson,” an African-American investment manager who had graduated from Harvard Business School. “He said, ‘There’s no way I can let this black f-g win.’”
Whooweee. Is Cohen exaggerating? Is he just straight out lying? But on the other hand if it is accurate, who in the base will care? I’m thinking, by my calculations, exactly zero percent of his base will give a damn, even though it’s from Trump’s lawyer.
Ironically, Trump posted one endorsement from Cohen way back in 2012 where the guy thought Trump being politically incorrect was amaaazing:
Good article: “What Happened to American Men” from @Newsmax by Michael Cohen http://t.co/xoo32RR9
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2012
Donald Trump might be a showman. He is certainly an entrepreneur but most of all he is an American hero. Donald Trump loves his country and is willing to express views that others are thinking but are afraid to voice because of the virus called political correctness.
So where you lying then or are you lying NOW Mister Cohen?! HMM?!!? Also MAGA!!!