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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSpawn of Roy COHN: SHITLER and NAPOLITANO (+Bahbwah WAHWAH, MURDOCH, Roger STONE)
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-judge-napolitano-speaks-why-does-president-trump-listen?ref=home
.... In their chats in recent months, the judge and the 45th president occasionally have reminisced about their chance meeting in October 1986, when they found themselves sitting next to each other at a memorial service for a mutual friend.
The notorious Roy Cohn had brought them together.
Cohns deathat age 59 of AIDS, a diagnosis Cohn, a closeted gay man, denied to the endhad lured some 500 admirers to Manhattans Town Hall, including Rupert Murdoch, Barbara Walters, Roger Stone, and the leading lights of the Tammany Hall machine and the New York political and real estate establishments, according to The New York Times account of the event.
Cohna mythic and widely reviled figure of the Red-baiting McCarthy Erahad been Trumps mentor and consigliere as the young real estate developer was becoming a tabloid gossip column celebrity with oft-hyped political ambitions. ....
As the mourners, including Trump and Napolitano, ended the service by belting out God Bless America, Cohns favorite tune, it was the beginning of an unlikely friendship that is consequential three decades later.
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hlthe2b
(102,104 posts)I guess ANYTHING for the access.
Jersey Devil
(9,873 posts)Napolitano was a judge in Bergen County where I was a lawyer (until recent retirement). To demonstrate what a legal lightweight he was, the Assignment Judge for the County assigned him mainly to Small Claims Court, where he could do the least damage. I once saw him try a case in which a homeowner was complaining that an exterminator charged her too much because the exterminator charged her a fee for each squirrel he exterminated in her attic rather than an overall fee for killing all the squirrels.
This guy was clearly not the kind of judge who issued weighty and important legal decisions. I'd be surprised if any opinion he ever rendered was deemed worthy of publication.