Michael Cohen's book to claim Trump made racist comments about Obama and Mandela
by Mike Brest, Breaking News Reporter |
| July 21, 2020 09:21 AM
Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney for President Trump, claims he heard the president make racist comments about former President Barack Obama and the late South African leader Nelson Mandela.
The new details from Cohen's forthcoming book, tentatively titled, Disloyal: The True Story of Michael Cohen, Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump, emerged as part of the lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and law firm Perry Guha LLP on Monday, seeking to get him released from prison.
Court filings reveal that the book will be Cohen's "firsthand experiences and observations based on my decade-long employment and relationship with Mr. Trump and his family, both before and after he was elected."
“In particular, my book will provide graphic and unflattering details about the President’s behavior behind closed doors,†Cohen wrote. The book “describes the President’s pointedly anti-Semitic remarks and virulently racist remarks against such Black leaders as President Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela, neither of whom he viewed as real leaders or as worthy of respect by virtue of their race.â€
The lawsuit filed alleges Cohen, who was released from federal prison to home confinement in late May amid coronavirus concerns, was sent back to prison on July 9 as he balked on signing an agreement barring him from exercising his "right to speak to or through any media, including books and social media."
The president was also accused of using racial slurs by his niece, Mary Trump, who also recently published a tell-all book about their family.
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