Michael Cohen's opening statement to the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday was full of eye-popping moments, not the least of which was Cohen's claim that President Trump frequently made racist comments in his presence. "Mr. Trump is a racist," Cohen announced, adding as examples that the president "once asked me if I could name a country run by a black person that wasn't a 's--thole' ... While we were once driving through a struggling neighborhood in Chicago, he commented that only black people could live that way. And he told me that black people would never vote for him because they were too stupid."
Cohen's confession was particularly shocking because just a few short years ago, Cohen founded and headed the National Diversity Coalition for Trump and passionately argued that the then-candidate was not racist in a nearly 10-minute speech, Mediaite reports.
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Watch Cohen's 2016 defense of Trump at Mediaite, and watch Cohen call Trump a racist, below. Jeva Lange
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