Michael Cohen: Trump hates Obama because he's everything he 'wants to be'
By Zack Budryk - 09/09/20 02:52 PM EDT
Michel Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, said Tuesday that the president was fixated on his predecessor Barack Obama and attributed it to envy.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow cited a passage in Cohen’s book, “Disloyal,†in which Cohen suggests Trump did not necessarily believe false claims that Obama was born outside the U.S. Rather, the book states, Trump was seeking to capitalize on issues that “would arouse strong feelings for those who took his side.â€
“His hatred for Barack Obama is plain and simple: he’s Black, he went to Harvard Law, he graduated at the top of his class, he’s incredibly articulate, he’s all the things that Donald Trump wants to be,†Cohen said. “And he just can’t handle it. So what do you do if you’re Donald Trump and you can’t handle it? You attack it.â€
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