None of the other people who were present responded to inquiries. But one person who wasn’t present that day did remember Trump saying something similar: In his memoir, Disloyal, Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, who was often on set in his role as the co-president of Trump’s TV production company, described a conversation with Trump, which took place four years after the finale, at the launch of the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago. That night, Trump, who was reminiscing about his decision to choose Rancic, had told Cohen, “There was no way I was going to let this Black fag
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