Roy Cohn is the man who taught Donald Trump everything he knows. Kai Bird is the author of a new book on the infamous lawyer and joins The Weekend to discuss how Cohn is still influencing American politics decades later.
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MS NOW's Ari Melber delivers a special report on the man widely considered to be President Trump's "fixer" when he was a budding real estate developer. Melber is joined by Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump." (The Beat's YouTube: https://ms.now/ari)
Roy Cohn, the mastermind behind McCarthyism, had a profound influence on a young Donald Trump. Kai Bird, co-author of "American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump", joins Peter Alexander to explain how Cohn molded Trump into the president we know today.
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Roy Cohn, the mastermind behind McCarthyism, had a profound influence on a young Donald Trump. Kai Bird, co-author of "American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump", joins Peter Alexander to explain how Cohn molded Trump into the president we know today.
When a respected biographer tried to use a Mapplethorpe photograph of Roy Cohn for a book cover, worries about the wrath of Mr. Cohn’s protégé, President Trump, intervened.
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