The lawyer Trump wants to represent him has been dead for 32 years

[DonViejo]

By Paul Callan

Updated 6:32 PM ET, Sat March 24, 2018

(CNN) - It's becoming increasingly clear who President Donald Trump really wants to represent him in the Robert Mueller investigation -- and there's a good reason he can't have him.

When John Dowd quit this week as lead counsel on Trump's legal team and the President made an effort to recruit "deep state" conspiracy theorist and conservative legal commentator Joseph diGenova to the team, the conclusion could only be that Trump wants to go to war against Mueller, using the tactics favored by his onetime mentor Roy Cohn.

In effect, the President wants to wage an aggressive, and probably dirty war, on the special counsel. Cohn, having died in 1986, isn't available. But there may be other lawyers who can fill that role.

In the early years of his Manhattan real estate career, Trump was a protégé of Cohn's who had gained fame decades earlier as counsel to the notorious McCarthy committee in the 1950s.

Cohn was a true believer in scorched earth legal tactics. The widely reviled and feared lawyer would willingly use the legal equivalent of chemical weapons to achieve his goals. Trump was so taken with the toughness of his legal consigliere that he, according to The New York Times, kept an 8-by-10 photograph of the feared barrister in his desk drawer to terrorize those who resisted his demands.

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Cohn was disbarred, so even if he weren't dead he wouldn't be available.

In recent years bar associations and state licensing agencies have been a lot tougher on lawyer misconduct, so Trump won't have much luck finding a lawyer willing to risk his law license to do things Trump would want him to do. It sounds like Cohen and Kasowitz skate along that edge as it is.

[HipChick]

2. This is BS...Cohn reportedly had AIDS...Trump dumped him as soon as he found out he was diagnosed..

And while Cohn was indeed disbarred in the end, it wasn't until Trump learned that Cohn had been diagnosed with AIDS that he decided to sever his ties with his mentor.

"Donald found out about it and just dropped him like a hot potato," Cohn's longtime secretary Susan Bell said. "It was like night and day."

http://theweek.com/speedreads/617343/donald-trump-turned-back-closest-friend-when-heard-aids