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.
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)
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Culture Culture The Age of Cohn A new biography of the notorious lawyer sheds light on the Trump era. American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey From Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump, by Kai Bird with Susan Goldmark. Scribner. 528 pages “Leave Donald alone,” Roy Cohn warned a federal prosecutor. “He’s going to be big one day.” The author Kai Bird takes us back to the mid-1970s, when Roy Marcus Cohn, the erstwhile McCarthyite witchhunter-turned–lawyer-fixer for notorious New York City mobsters, was defending Donald Trump, then 27 and on the make, in a racial discrimination…Open