Roy Cohn and Donald Trump

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I found an incredibly informative and revealing article from June 2016 in the New York Times that makes more sense than it did then, given what we now know about Trump. At the time the article was written Donald Trump wasn't showing quite as much of Ray Cohn's influence on his actions. Now it's blatantly obvious.

Decades later, Mr. Cohn’s influence on Mr. Trump is unmistakable. Mr. Trump’s wrecking ball of a presidential bid — the gleeful smearing of his opponents, the embracing of bluster as brand — has been a Roy Cohn number on a grand scale. Mr. Trump’s response to the Orlando massacre, with his ominous warnings of a terrorist attack that could wipe out the country and his conspiratorial suggestions of a Muslim fifth column in the United States, seemed to have been ripped straight out of the Cohn playbook.

“I hear Roy in the things he says quite clearly,” said Peter Fraser, who as Mr. Cohn’s lover for the last two years of his life spent a great deal of time with Mr. Trump. “That bravado, and if you say it aggressively and loudly enough, it’s the truth — that’s the way Roy used to operate to a degree, and Donald was certainly his apprentice.”

For 13 years, the lawyer who had infamously whispered in McCarthy’s ear whispered in Mr. Trump’s. In the process, Mr. Cohn helped deliver some of Mr. Trump’s signature construction deals, sued the National Football League for conspiring against his client and countersued the federal government — for $100 million — for damaging the Trump name. One of Mr. Trump’s executives recalled that he kept an 8-by-10-inch photograph of Mr. Cohn in his office desk, pulling it out to intimidate recalcitrant contractors.

The two men spoke as often as five times a day, toasted each other at birthday parties and spent evenings together at Studio 54.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/us/politics/donald-trump-roy-cohn.html?_r=0

Trump's response to the Orlando Massacre is a link within the article.

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1. you can call him ray, or you can call him jay,

but his name is roy.

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2. you can call him Roy, or you can call him Joy...

although he brings none what-so-ever

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3. Thanks!

I stand corrected.

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4. R#2 & K. Oh, to be a fly on the walls of Studio 54 & COHN's cave while he was "mentoring" DRUMPF

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5. kick

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6. .

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7. last kick