NYTIMES (Carlos Lozada, Michelle Cottle, Nicole Hemmer and Derek Arthur) - How Roy Cohn Shaped Trump — and America
A new book reveals how the lawyer’s legacy lives on decades after his death.
NYTIMES (Carlos Lozada) - Somewhere, Roy Cohn Is Smiling
Trump needed only one teacher.
YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - The ONE MAN who explains Trump & our broken politics today: Ari on Roy Cohn
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)
YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - How Roy Cohn shaped Donald Trump
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.
YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - The Man Who Molded a President: How Roy Cohn shaped Donald Trump
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.
NYTIMES (Michael M. Grynbaum) - Roy Cohn, Robert Mapplethorpe and a Trump-Era Dilemma Over Free Speech
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.
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Martin Di Caro) - The Age of Cohn
A new biography of the notorious lawyer sheds light on the Trump era. The post The Age of Cohn appeared first on The American Conservative .
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
STONEZONE (Roger Stone) - McCarthy Was Right
McCarthy understood that America’s adversaries did not always arrive in military uniforms or foreign armies. Joseph Raymond McCarthy was a United States Senator from Wisconsin who rose to national prominence in the early 1950s because he dared to confront a reality that much of the American establishment preferred to ignore. He believed communism was not […] The post McCarthy Was Right appeared first on StoneZone .
McCarthy understood that America’s adversaries did not always arrive in military uniforms or foreign armies. Joseph Raymond McCarthy was a United States Senator from Wisconsin who rose to national prominence in the early 1950s because he dared to confront a reality that much of the American establishment preferred to ignore. He believed communism was not merely a foreign threat but an internal one. McCarthy understood that America’s adversaries did not always arrive in military uniforms or foreign armies. Sometimes they arrived through institutions, ideas, influence networks, and political movements that slowly reshaped public opinion and government policy from within. His fight took place during one of the most dangerous periods in…Open
NYTIMES (Jacob Weisberg) - Rasputin. Roy Cohn. Jeffrey Epstein. Every Elite Has a ‘Dark Connector.’
Epstein flourished by helping elite men reconcile their private desires with their public appearances.