Posted on 07/23/2015 6:14:19 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trumps brash and bullying style was learned at the heel of Roy Cohn, one of Americas most infamous lawyers.
They met at Le Club, a private disco on the Upper East Side frequented by Jackie Kennedy, Al Pacino, and Diana Ross, according to Trump: The Saga of Americas Most Powerful Real Estate Baron. Donald Trump, the young developer, quickly amassing a fortune in New York real estate and Roy Cohn, Americas most loathed yet socially successful defense attorney who had vaulted to infamy in the 1950s while serving as legal counsel to Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
The friendship they forged would provide the foundation for Trump's eventual presidential campaign. And in hindsight, it serves as a tool for understanding Donald Trump the Candidate, whose bumper sticker-averse declarationsundocumented Mexican immigrants are criminals and rapists; Sen. John McCain is not a war herohave both led him to the top of the Republican primary polls and mistakenly convinced many that he is a puzzle unworthy of solving. It may appear that way, but Trump isnt just spouting off insults like a malfunctioning sprinkler systemhes mimicking what he learned some 40 years ago.
A longtime friend of Trumps who was introduced to the candidate by Cohn told me its a shame that Cohns not alive to see the chaos his protégé has wrought....
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
than from Frank.
Rather eat dinner with him too.
Actually, are we even sure Roy Cohn was LGBT? Yes, he did die from AIDS, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he was gay. For all we know, he may have contracted it by a botched blood transfusion, like that science fiction writer around the time the HIV/AIDS epidemic was occurring (either Heinlein or Asimov).
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