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This past week brought a series of stunning reports about President Trump and his White House, reports some Americans found hard to believe. But one quote attributed to the president should have surprised no one: the one in The New York Times where the president asked, "Where's my Roy Cohn?"
In a moment of crisis, the president cried out for the man from Trump's past whom the Times described as his "personal lawyer and fixer." Far more than that, Cohn was a legendary and controversial attorney who pushed legal tactics to the limits for a dazzling array of clients from senators to mobsters and high rollers in sports and entertainment.
Cohn was periodically in legal trouble himself and was disbarred in New York just weeks before he died in 1986. But his legacy lives on in the careers of others.
Trump met him in 1973 in a Manhattan nightclub. The two became friends, allies, business associates. Some say Cohn was Trump's mentor, or even his surrogate father. This much is clear: Cohn was Trump's model in the handling of public relationships and media warfare.
Cohn's code was built on self-interest and loyalty; his style was all about intensity. If he was your lawyer, he was prepared to do anything for you; if he was your adversary, no holds were barred.
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underpants
(182,879 posts)If I remember correctly he stopped the development or availablity of AIDS/HIV drugs while he himself was taking them.
In the PBS Frontline during the campaign comparing the lives of Trump and Hillary in parallel, there was one part in which Trump used to have a picture of Cohn in his desk. He'd pull the picture out and say to the person he was threatening something like, "THIS is my lawyer. Do you want me to send HIM after you?!"
mnmoderatedem
(3,729 posts)was barred for unprofessional conduct, including entering the room of a dying man and forcing a deathbed signature to make himself beneficiary of his fortune.
Perfect lawyer for Trump.
DemoTex
(25,403 posts)Steven Miller
Roy Cohn
Nitram
(22,879 posts)Glorfindel
(9,734 posts)"Angels in America."
Internationalist
(27 posts)Roy Cohn.
And now you know the rest of the story!
Botany
(70,582 posts).... the non stop outrage from the right?
Roy Cohn was a piece of shit. He worked @ ruining people's lives w/phony charges
of being a communist, he worked at keeping mafia a thugs and killers out of prison,
and he was a gay hating gay man who died of AIDS as he worked on stopping other
AIDS victims from getting medicine.