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.
A new book reveals how the lawyer’s legacy lives on decades after his death.
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.
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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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
McCarthy was completely correct that communists had infiltrated the U.S. government, and his legacy has been vindicated by later evidence.
70 years after the Red Scare and 35 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, President Trump and Republicans are trying to re-introduce a national fear of "godless communists" ahead of the critical midterms. Why it matters: A wave of resounding victories by Democratic Socialists has the GOP trotting out a message that last worked when most of those candidates weren't even born. - It's too soon to know if the message is working — but Trump and Republican strategists see an opening with voters old enough to remember Soviet-era nuclear drills and spy dramas. The big picture: Former Trump aide Steve Bannon has argued for years that former Wisconsin Sen. Joe McCarthy was right about communism's widespread infiltration into the U.S.…