Saturday, November 3, 2018

As If We Needed More Evidence

Trump's lawyer-for-hire Michael Cohen is starting to spill the beans on his former boss, relating a string of racist remarks from the Orangeman himself.

During a 2016 campaign stop, Cohen told Trump that his campaign rally looked vanilla on television. Trump responded, "That's because black people are too stupid to vote for me."

Cohen also referenced a conversation he had with Trump after Nelson Mandela's death.  Trump said, "Name one country run by a black person that's not a shithole," and then he added, "Name one city."

In 2004, Trump made comments about not selecting Kwame Jackson, an African-American Harvard business graduate to be the winner of "The Apprentice."   Trump said, "There's no way I can let this black fag win."

Cohen also recalled a conversation with Trump en route from the Chicago airport to their hotel, when they drove through what looked like a rough neighborhood.  Trump made a comment, saying "Only the blacks could live like this."

After Cohen twice retweeted Florida Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum,  President Trump called Gillum a 'stone cold thief,' in a remark critics immediately called racist. Trump also labelled Tallahassee (where Gillum is mayor}, one of the nation's "worst run cities."

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