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BY EMILY JANE FOX
NOVEMBER 2, 2018 2:30 PM
... Cohen .. said he has spent the last several months quietly reflecting on his former boss and his own role in the Trump Organization. Amid the presidents recent tirades, Cohen has re-registered as a Democrat and urged people on Twitter to vote in the midterm elections, calling it possibly the most important vote in our lifetime. He said that events also activated within him an urge to reveal details from his tenure at the Trump Organization, during which he said the president privately uttered chilling, racist language in one-on-one conversations. On Tuesday, the day of the first funerals in Pittsburgh, he shared some of these memories.
... When I asked him why he was coming forward now with such uncomfortable claims, Cohen was clear: he knew that the presidents private comments were worse than his public rhetoric, and he wanted to offer potential voters what he believed was evidence of Trumps character in advance of the midterm elections.
During our conversation, Cohen recalled a discussion at Trump Tower, following the then-candidates 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, Thats because black people are too stupid to vote for me ...
This conversation, he noted, was reminiscent of an exchange that the two men had engaged in years earlier, after Nelson Mandelas death. [Trump] said to me, Name one country run by a black person thats not a shithole, and then he added, Name one city, Cohen recalled, a statement that echoed the presidents 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 correcthe isnt. She subsequently noted that it was one of the reasons the American people love him.) ...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/michael-cohen-trump-racist-language
dalton99a
(81,486 posts)Guppy
(444 posts)guess which word he used.
Funtatlaguy
(10,875 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)vote for him
leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)Blacks are too smart to vote for him. They understand the dangers of divisiveness better than most of the rest of us .