Trump tries to conjure the ghastly ghost of Roy Cohn (2018 article)
When Rudy Giuliani debased himself in the service of Trump by smearing FBI agents as “stormtroopers,” he was merely auditioning for the role of Roy Cohn 2.0.
Trump has indeed cried out, “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” Alas, the lawyer-fixer who counterpunched for Trump in the early years of Trump’s sleazy career has been dead since 1986 — he perished six weeks after he was disbarred for fraud — and his protege clearly misses him now. But his spirit is alive and well (unfortunately for us). To best understand Trump’s hyper-aggressive response to the scandal probes, we need only to resurrect Roy Cohn in action.
Cohn, who made his bones in the ’50s as Joe McCarthy’s red-baiting investigator (which tells you plenty), flourished as a type-A Manhattan shyster whose credo was simple: If they hit you hard, hit them twice as hard. He was already a legend — having survived three federal trials for conspiracy, bribery, and fraud — when he met young Trump in 1973. They hit it off. As Cohn’s biographer later wrote, Cohn “never paid his bills … Roy would stiff anybody, friend or foe.” Cohn was notorious for threatening his legal adversaries and he was ubiquitous in the gossip columns, leaking flattering tidbits about himself. Any of that sound familiar?
https://whyy.org/articles/trump-tries-to-conjure-the-ghastly-ghost-of-roy-cohn/
It sounds even more familiar now than it did then with his "red scare" anti Democratic Socialist bullshit.
Buckle up.
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