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We know almost all of this already, along with the myriad cesspool of DRUMPF's history, and it. does. not. matter.
But it's a masterful re-telling.
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http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/donald-trump-roy-cohn-relationship#intcid=dt-recirc-cral_top1_1
How Donald Trump and Roy Cohns Ruthless Symbiosis Changed America
BY MARIE BRENNER June 28, 2017
.... The tabloids couldnt get enough of the Trumps theatrics. And as Donald Trumps Hyatt rose, so too did the hidden hand of his attorney Roy Cohn, always there to help with the shady tax abatements, the zoning variances, the sweetheart deals, and the threats to those who might stand in the projects way.
Cohn was best known as a ruthless prosecutor. During the Red Scare of the 1950s, he and Wisconsin senator Joe McCarthy, the fabulist and virulent nationalist crusader, had hauled dozens of alleged Communist sympathizers before a Senate panel. Earlier, the House Un-American Activities Committee had skewered artists and entertainers on similar charges, resulting in a trail of fear, prison sentences, and ruined careers for hundreds, many of whom had found common cause in fighting Fascism. But in the decades since, Cohn had become the premier practitioner of hardball deal-making in New York, having mastered the arcane rules of the citys Favor Bank (the local cabal of interconnected influence peddlers) and its magical ability to provide inside fixes for its machers and rogues. ....
Pro-Americanism (sic), Stone said, is a common thread for McCarthy, Goldwater, Nixon, (and) Reagan. The heir to that tradition is Donald Trump. When you combine that with the bare-knuckled tactics of Roy Cohnor a Roger Stonethat is how you win elections. So Roy has an impact on Donalds understanding of how to deal with the mediaattack, attack, attack, never defend. ....
Cohn also had asked a favor of Trump: Could he give him a hotel room for his lover, who was dying of AIDS? A room was found in the Barbizon Plaza Hotel. Months passed. Then Cohn got the bill. Then another. He refused to pay. At some point, according to The New York Timess Jonathan Mahler and Matt Flegenheimer, Trump would present Cohn with a thank-you gift for a decade of favors: a pair of diamond cuff links. The diamonds turned out to be fakes.
Tensions between the two became progressively strained. And the dying Cohn, as Barrett would describe him in those waning days, would say, Donald pisses ice water. ....
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politicat
(9,808 posts)The Cohn relationship reminds me of that.
As with many King stories, it doesn't end well.
Cohn was an evil, evil SOB, but his worst creation was his pupil.
UTUSN
(70,695 posts)Things like "attack attack attack" and all.
KING has been fantastic in his anti-DRUMPF public statements, recognizes the evil.
politicat
(9,808 posts)Not the TV wreck, but the book. It's so damn easy to go sideways.
Big Jim Rennie is more realistic and more frightening even than Greg Stillson. And that's an accomplishment.
King has an amazing empathy. It goes into the dark well most of the time, but he can articulate the depth of human failures like very few have ever done. (When his prose is shaky, it's shaky, but when it's on, it's gorgeous, and he's been on much more for the past decade.)