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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Joseph McCarthy henchman Roy Cohn became Donald Trump’s mentor.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/donald-trump-roy-cohn-mentor-joseph-mccarthy-213799It was the fall of 1984, Trump Tower was new, and this was unusual territory for the 38-year-old real estate developer. He was three years away from his first semi-serious dalliance with presidential politics, more than 30 years before the beginning of his current campaignbut he had gotten the idea to bring this up, he said, from his attorney, his good friend and his closest adviser, Roy Cohn.
That Roy Cohn.
Roy Cohn, the lurking legal hit man for red-baiting Sen. Joe McCarthy, whose reign of televised intimidation in the 1950s has become synonymous with demagoguery, fear-mongering and character assassination. In the formative years of Donald Trumps career, when he went from a rich kid working for his real estate-developing father to a top-line dealmaker in his own right, Cohn was one of the most powerful influences and helpful contacts in Trumps life.
Over a 13-year-period, ending shortly before Cohns death in 1986, Cohn brought his say-anything, win-at-all-costs style to all of Trumps most notable legal and business deals. Interviews with people who knew both men at the time say the relationship ran deeper than thatthat Cohns philosophy shaped the real estate moguls worldview and the belligerent public persona visible in Trumps presidential campaign.
Something Cohn had, Donald liked, Susan Bell, Cohns longtime secretary, said this week when I asked her about the relationship between her old boss and Trump.
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How Joseph McCarthy henchman Roy Cohn became Donald Trump’s mentor. (Original Post)
eridani
Apr 2016
OP
As I've thought, it can ALWAYS get worse!
marble falls
(57,112 posts)2. This is car wreck fascinating. Gooood find!
Tanuki
(14,919 posts)3. Kicking for visibility
I didn't see this when you posted it, but I heard David Kay Johnston mention Trump's Roy Cohn connection this morning on Joy Reid's program and looked to see if anyone had posted about it.
For younger DUers, here is more about Roy Cohn:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn