Donald Trump ‘hired an Obama look-alike so he could fire him on camera’
Donald Trump so hated Barack Obama that he hired a look-alike to sit in his office so he could “fire” him, according to claims in a new book from the president’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen.
In Disloyal, out on Tuesday, Mr Cohen alleges that his old boss was “a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man.”
The lawyer, 54, is currently under house arrest, having been freed from prison early during the coronavirus pandemic. He was sentenced to three years in December 2018 after pleading guilty to tax evasion and campaign finance violations – crimes he alleged were a result of covering up for Mr Trump’s “dirty deeds”.
In a photo included in the book, Mr Trump is seen seated at his desk across from the alleged “Faux-Bama”, wearing a suit with an American flag pin.
Mr Cohen writes that Mr Trump “ritualistically belittled the first black president and then fired him.”
He claims the New York billionaire was obsessed with Mr Obama, who he claimed was only accepted into Columbia University and Harvard Law School because of affirmative action.
He also claims Mr Trump made racist comments about black leaders.
“Tell me one country run by a black person that isn’t a ****hole. They are all complete ******* toilets,” he allegedly said, during one rant about the former president.
In response to the claims, the White House called Mr Cohen’s memoir “fan fiction”.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany attacked Mr Cohen’s credibility in a statement on Saturday, saying that “Michael Cohen is a disgraced felon and disbarred lawyer, who lied to Congress. He has lost all credibility, and it’s unsurprising to see his latest attempt to profit off lies.”
The one world leader Mr Trump did admire was Vladimir Putin, according to Mr Cohen’s account.
“Locking up your political enemies, criminalizing dissent, terrifying or bankrupting the free press through libel lawsuits – Trump’s all-encompassing vision wasn’t evident to me before he began to run for president,” Mr Cohen writes.
Separately on Sunday it emerged that while in Paris in 2018, Mr Trump spotted artworks inside the US ambassador’s residence that he liked, and ordered them loaded onto Air Force One for the return trip to Washington.
State Department lawyers were stunned and scurried to ensure the move was legal – ultimately ruling that it was, because the artwork was US government property, according to a Bloomberg report.
The White House confirmed the president took artwork from Paris.
“The president brought these beautiful, historical pieces, which belong to the American people, back to the United States to be prominently displayed in the People’s House,” said White House spokesperson Judd Deere, in response to questions from Bloomberg News.
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