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UTUSN

(70,711 posts)
Mon Jan 29, 2018, 02:31 PM Jan 2018

Spawn of Roy COHN: SHITLER and NAPOLITANO (+Bahbwah WAHWAH, MURDOCH, Roger STONE)

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-judge-napolitano-speaks-why-does-president-trump-listen?ref=home

When Judge Napolitano Speaks, Why Does President Trump Listen?


.... In their chats in recent months, the judge and the 45th president occasionally have reminisced about their chance meeting in October 1986, when they found themselves sitting next to each other at a memorial service for a mutual friend.

The notorious Roy Cohn had brought them together.

Cohn’s death—at age 59 of AIDS, a diagnosis Cohn, a closeted gay man, denied to the end—had lured some 500 admirers to Manhattan’s Town Hall, including Rupert Murdoch, Barbara Walters, Roger Stone, and the leading lights of the Tammany Hall machine and the New York political and real estate establishments, according to The New York Times’ account of the event.

Cohn—a mythic and widely reviled figure of the Red-baiting McCarthy Era—had been Trump’s mentor and consigliere as the young real estate developer was becoming a tabloid gossip column celebrity with oft-hyped political ambitions. ....

As the mourners, including Trump and Napolitano, ended the service by belting out “God Bless America,” Cohn’s favorite tune, it was the beginning of an unlikely friendship that is consequential three decades later.

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Spawn of Roy COHN: SHITLER and NAPOLITANO (+Bahbwah WAHWAH, MURDOCH, Roger STONE) (Original Post) UTUSN Jan 2018 OP
Barbara Walters surely "befriended" one hell of a lot of despiccable characters... hlthe2b Jan 2018 #1
The Squirrel Judge Jersey Devil Jan 2018 #2

hlthe2b

(102,292 posts)
1. Barbara Walters surely "befriended" one hell of a lot of despiccable characters...
Mon Jan 29, 2018, 02:32 PM
Jan 2018

I guess ANYTHING for the access.

Jersey Devil

(9,874 posts)
2. The Squirrel Judge
Mon Jan 29, 2018, 02:38 PM
Jan 2018

Napolitano was a judge in Bergen County where I was a lawyer (until recent retirement). To demonstrate what a legal lightweight he was, the Assignment Judge for the County assigned him mainly to Small Claims Court, where he could do the least damage. I once saw him try a case in which a homeowner was complaining that an exterminator charged her too much because the exterminator charged her a fee for each squirrel he exterminated in her attic rather than an overall fee for killing all the squirrels.

This guy was clearly not the kind of judge who issued weighty and important legal decisions. I'd be surprised if any opinion he ever rendered was deemed worthy of publication.

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