Trump hired Obama lookalike he ‘ritualistically belittled’ and fired in video stunt, says Michael Cohen in new book
- Extract from new book by president’s former personal lawyer describes ex-boss’ obsessive hatred for his predecessor
- Parody video of Trump’s Apprentice reality show features him attacking ‘Fauxbama’ for his track record, lack of business experience – and even his golf game
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump‘s former personal lawyer, has described his ex-boss’ obsessive hatred of President Barack Obama in extracts from his upcoming memoir published by news outlets on Saturday.
In an extract from Cohen’s Disloyalty: A Memoir, published by CNN and The Washington Post, Cohen says that Trump described Obama as a “Manchurian candidate” who owed his place at Columbia University and Harvard Law School to “f*****g affirmative action.”
According to the CNN extract, Trump, in pursuing his grudge against Obama, hired a lookalike “Fauxbama” and “ritualistically belittled the first black president and then fired him” in a bizarre video.
In the book, reports CNN, Cohen does not name the man hired to play Obama or say on what date the incident took place, but does include a picture from the video. It shows Trump sitting across his Trump Tower desk from a man resembling Obama. On the desk in front of Trump are two books, one with Obama‘s name on the front.
But a copy of the video has emerged online