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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Joseph McCarthy henchman Roy Cohn became Donald Trumps mentor.
That Roy Cohn.
Roy Cohn, the lurking legal hit man for red-baiting Sen. Joe McCarthy, whose reign of televised intimidation in the 1950s has become synonymous with demagoguery, fear-mongering and character assassination. In the formative years of Donald Trumps career, when he went from a rich kid working for his real estate-developing father to a top-line dealmaker in his own right, Cohn was one of the most powerful influences and helpful contacts in Trumps life.
Over a 13-year-period, ending shortly before Cohns death in 1986, Cohn brought his say-anything, win-at-all-costs style to all of Trumps most notable legal and business deals. Interviews with people who knew both men at the time say the relationship ran deeper than thatthat Cohns philosophy shaped the real estate moguls worldview and the belligerent public persona visible in Trumps presidential campaign.
Roy Cohn, the lurking legal hit man for red-baiting Sen. Joe McCarthy, whose reign of televised intimidation in the 1950s has become synonymous with demagoguery, fear-mongering and character assassination. In the formative years of Donald Trumps career, when he went from a rich kid working for his real estate-developing father to a top-line dealmaker in his own right, Cohn was one of the most powerful influences and helpful contacts in Trumps life.
Over a 13-year-period, ending shortly before Cohns death in 1986, Cohn brought his say-anything, win-at-all-costs style to all of Trumps most notable legal and business deals. Interviews with people who knew both men at the time say the relationship ran deeper than thatthat Cohns philosophy shaped the real estate moguls worldview and the belligerent public persona visible in Trumps presidential campaign.
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How Joseph McCarthy henchman Roy Cohn became Donald Trumps mentor. (Original Post)
dixiegrrrrl
Jan 2017
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UTUSN
(70,762 posts)1. Is it believable that COHN & DRUMPF "related" so much in total PURITY?!1
What was Studio 54 about for them?!1
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)2. This is why
one would try to move on from the past we have to be sure that's moved on from us because most of the time it hasn't. There will be people who try to lionize Joseph McCarthy, as Ann Coulter already started doing, and Trump will happily make his mentor Rory Cohen seem brighter.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)3. Except for the fact Cohn died deeply in denial that he had AIDS.
That is a pretty dark shadow on his reputation as far as the conservatives go.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)4. with all due respect
this election prove that backs do not matter. I'm sure that they are preparing and exquisitely cooked banquet of alternative facts, especially if they think that they can get the days McCarthy back.
UTUSN
(70,762 posts)5. Oh, I already Rec'd this