General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo Trump's mentor was . . . ROY COHN????!
Wow. From today's New York Times:
< . . . . >
The year was 1977, and Mr. Cohns reputation was well established. He had been Senator Joseph McCarthys Red-baiting consigliere. He had helped send the Rosenbergs to the electric chair for spying and elect Richard M. Nixon president.
Then New Yorks most feared lawyer, Mr. Cohn had a client list that ran the gamut from the disreputable to the quasi-reputable: Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno, Claus von Bulow, George Steinbrenner.
But there was one client who occupied a special place in Roy Cohns famously cold heart: Donald J. Trump.
For Mr. Cohn, who died of AIDS in 1986, weeks after being disbarred for flagrant ethical violations, Mr. Trump was something of a final project. If Fred Trump got his sons career started, bringing him into the family business of middle-class rentals in Brooklyn and Queens, Mr. Cohn ushered him across the river and into Manhattan, introducing him to the social and political elite while ferociously defending him against a growing list of enemies
<. . . . >
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)When he needed a date for a function, she obliged. She dismisses his excesses, but admits why.
She owed him an enormous debt, because, when her father (the empresario Lou Walters--lot of heart, little financial sense) got into devastating money troubles, Cohn bailed him out.
That guy had his connections, that's for sure--it's why he survived for so long. Had he not been felled by AIDS, he would have gone on for a long, long time, I suspect.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)four days ago:
The man who showed Donald Trump how to exploit power and instill fear
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/former-mccarthy-aide-showed-trump-how-to-exploit-power-and-draw-attention/2016/06/16/e9f44f20-2bf3-11e6-9b37-42985f6a265c_story.html