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Trump Fired A 'Faux-Bama,' Michael Cohen Alleges In Tell-All Memoir

In his book Disloyal: A Memoir, President Trump's former personal attorney catalogs a laundry list of accusations, ranging from racism and sexual misconduct to financial misdeeds.
Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer to President Trump, listening to closing statements during a House Oversight Committee hearing in Feb. 2019.

Long before he came into office, Donald Trump was so preoccupied with then-President Barack Obama that he hired a look-alike actor — a "faux-Bama" — to castigate and then pretend to fire on video.

That's just one of many accusations levied by Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal attorney, in his new book Disloyal: A Memoir, which is being published Tuesday and which NPR obtained before its publication.

Cohen includes a photograph of the "faux-Bama" episode, in which Trump is seated at a desk across from a man who looks vaguely like the 44th American president. In the middle

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