Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, is alleging in a new book that Trump made disparaging remarks about Black world leaders including former South African President Nelson Mandela, as well as about U.S. minorities in general, the Washington Post reported on Saturday.
Cohen and Trump shared a good work bond together, for years before turning against him, most publicly in testimony to Congress last year prior to Trump’s impeachment.
Currently, Cohen is serving a three-year sentence for, among other things, making untrue allegations to Congress. In a book due to be published next week, Cohen alleges that Trump characterized Mandela as a poor leader, according to the Washington Post which reported it obtained a copy of the book.
According to the newspaper, Cohen depicted that after Mandela’s death in 2013, Trump said: “Mandela f—ed the whole country up. Now it’s a s—hole. F— Mandela. He was no leader.”
Cohen also asserted that Trump said: “Tell me one country run by a black person that isn’t a s—hole. They are all complete f—ing toilets.”