South Africa’s ruling party has condemned President Trump for his alleged insults against Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid revolutionary who won the Nobel Peace Prize and the country’s first black president. Trump said Mandela “is not a leader” and turned his country into a “madman,” according to a new e-book through the president’s former non-public attorney, Michael Cohen.
“All the other freedom lovers in the world are horrified by those insults, which come from a user who doesn’t have a competent leadership style,” the South African National Congress said in a statement.
The party called Trump “the top controversial, misogynistic, disrespectful user who has ever held the office of president” and said Mandela, on the other hand, “turned to the global and sought to bring peace and a just society. “
The Nelson Mandela Foundation also denounced Mandela’s alleged comments about Trump, saying that “leaders who behave like Trump. Trump do can offer author authorized comments about Madiba’s life and work, using Mandela’s surname.
The base also published a quote from Mandela: “An intelligent leader can have interaction in a frank and complete debate, knowing that in the end, he and the other party will have to be closer, and thus emerge stronger. that concept when you’re arrogant, shallow and ill-informed. “
“We would present the words to Mr. Trump for consideration,” he added.
Mandela imprisoned for 27 years after leading efforts to dismantle South Africa’s apartheid formula of institutionalized segregation. It was launched in 1990, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and was president from 1994 to 1999. Mandela died in 2013 and remains a global icon.
But Trump was not inspired by any of this, according to Cohen’s book, “Disleyal: A Memoir. “Cohen says this component of Cohen’s broader trend of racism is Trump.
“[As] a rule, Trump has voiced weak criticism of all blacks, from music to culture to politics. Africa is a hell hole, he thought, and Nelson Mandela, to cite just one example, an object of contempt for Trump Cohen writes.
Quote to Trump, who said in a perorata about President Barack Obama: Tell me that a country is going through a black user who is a. They are all full bathrooms. “
Cohen adds that after Mandela’s death, Trump said South Africa “was once a lovely country twenty or thirty years ago,” while still under apartheid rule.
“Mandela ruined the whole country. Now it’s a, he said, quoting Mr. Trump. “F — IMandela. Nom not a leader. “
Years later, as president, Trump has notoriously called African nations a country of and continued to launch opposing attacks on black political and culture leaders.
The White House categorically rejected Cohen’s book, calling it “fan fiction. “
U. S. Ambassador to South Africa, Lana Marks, issued a saying that Mr. Trump “has never spoken alone definitively about the country” and “remains committed to running with South Africa to fulfill the promise of a richer, more peaceful, productive, and disgusting. “The African country of the 21st century. ” It made no direct reference to the statements reported through the president.
Cohen, Trump’s non-public lawyer until 2018, when he pleaded guilty to the financial violations of the crusade, fraud and lying to Congress. He was sentenced to three years in federal prison, but transferred to space arrest before this year due to COVID-19. Pandemic.
Cohen writes in his e-book that Trump is “guilty of the same crimes” that led him to jail. Cohen said he lied and quietly paid in cash to former porn star Daniel Stormy, to Trump’s wisdom, in order to pause. Up.
Cohen’s book, “Disloyal: A Memoir,” is distributed through Simon