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How Trump Learned to Fight "The Chicago Way"
Politico Magazine ^ | 4/8/2016 | Michael Kruse

Posted on 05/25/2016 6:57:15 AM PDT by Simon Foxx

Politico illustration/Getty and iStock

The reporter from the Washington Post didn’t ask Donald Trump about nuclear weapons, but he wanted to talk about them anyway. “Some people have an ability to negotiate,” Trump said, of facing the Soviet Union. “You either have it or you don’t.”

He wasn’t daunted by the complexity of the topic: “It would take an hour and a half to learn everything there is to learn about missiles,” he said.

It was the fall of 1984, Trump Tower was new, and this was unusual territory for the 38-year-old real estate developer. He was three years away from his first semi-serious dalliance with presidential politics, more than 30 years before the beginning of his current campaign—but he had gotten the idea to bring this up, he said, from his attorney, his good friend and his closest adviser, Roy Cohn.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; roycohn
Yes, of course this article is written by a lefty, but is very informative none-the-less. When I read this a light went off. Trump is probably the only national figure equipped by his temperament and training to take on the guttersnipe leftists who have been weaned on the teet of the abominable Saul Alinsky and his school of leftist subversion.

Put another way, as Sean Connery said in "The Untouchables": "He brings a knife, you bring a gun...that's the Chicago Way".

Trump is the only national Republican figure who knows how to do that.

1 posted on 05/25/2016 6:57:15 AM PDT by Simon Foxx
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To: Simon Foxx

Trump plays to win, in marked contrast to everyone else in the GOP.


2 posted on 05/25/2016 7:00:17 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Simon Foxx

He’s the first since Reagan and to a certain, much lesser extent Newt, to be able to go around the lamestream media directly to the People. This is a key attribute for any Republican, one which the national GOP leadership doesn’t seem to “get”.


3 posted on 05/25/2016 7:06:27 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Starboard

We have learned over the past 6 years the GOP/UNIPARTY does not even play for US!


4 posted on 05/25/2016 7:06:29 AM PDT by Harpotoo
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To: Simon Foxx

Trump is probably the only national figure equipped by his temperament and training to take on the guttersnipe leftists who have been weaned on the teet of the abominable Saul Alinsky and his school of leftist subversion.

Trump is the only national Republican figure who knows how to do that.


We have needed someone like this for at least a couple of decades, someone who can absolutely destroy the foundations of Leftism in this country, someone who can cut off at the knees the straw-man arguments that these people constantly use.

To those people upset at his tactics and his “lack of manners,” etc., all that I can say is that Donald J. Trump is leading a counter-revolution against the Leftist scourge that has largely taken over this nation’s schools, media and political leadership. People who lead a counter-revolution tend to be a little rough around the edges - deal with it, or continue to watch the country you knew as a kid and a young adult get flushed down the toilet bowl of history. Washington was the indispensable man of his era, someone without whom the American Revolution would have failed. Trump, for all of his faults and foibles (and some of them are quick endearing, IMHO), is today’s indispensable man - without him, upending the Leftists would be impossible, as NO ONE ELSE is equipped by his temperament and life experiences to succeed in doing so.


5 posted on 05/25/2016 7:07:43 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Simon Foxx; All

Politico’s journalistic MO seems to be:

find some dirt on trump
if no dirt on trump found, then find some dirt on someone who knows trump
add water to make mud
throw the mud at trump and see if anything sticks to him

repeat entire process ad nauseum


6 posted on 05/25/2016 7:26:07 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: Simon Foxx

Gosh.
A FIGHTER......................
...........and on OUR side, too.

I never thought I’d see the day.


7 posted on 05/25/2016 7:28:03 AM PDT by Flintlock (The ballot box STOLEN, our soapbox taken away--the BULLET BOX is left to us.)
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To: Ancesthntr

Agree.

I suspect his father was much the same way (”if they hit you, hit back twice as hard”), as that seems to be the kind of life value that is learned at a young age.

As you say, it serves him (and us) very well in the current fight for the nation. Anything less would lead to another failure, which we cannot afford.


8 posted on 05/25/2016 7:31:11 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Simon Foxx

Adios mofo Politico losers! You will be without a job in 2017 like the other Never Trumpers!

9 posted on 05/25/2016 7:40:35 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3432051/posts?page=12#12 for the latest delegattes count!)
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To: bigbob

Yep!

Bet big and if you lose get back in the game and triple your bet.

It takes bal..


10 posted on 05/25/2016 7:51:19 AM PDT by infool7 (The ugly truth is just a big lie.)
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To: Starboard

Yes, and being trained by a bare-knuckled, no-hold-barred anti-communist brawler like Roy Cohn, he truly UNDERSTANDS the opponents he is facing, and realizes that to combat them effectively he must hit them hard, often, and never let up (because they never do).

You can say whatever you like about Roy Cohn, a prickly, eccentric fellow whose own life seemed to embody a bundle of contradictions, but he loved America, he hated communism, and he understood the nature of the leftist enemy and knew that you can give him no quarter.

Playing by a modified set of polite “Marquese of Queensbury Rules” against a Marxist dooms you to inevitable defeat.

You have to knock em down and don’t let them get back up. And people instinctively know that Trump has this quality.


11 posted on 05/25/2016 7:54:09 AM PDT by Simon Foxx
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To: Ancesthntr

Nail. Meet. Hammer.


12 posted on 05/25/2016 7:54:09 AM PDT by Simon Foxx
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To: SteveH

Of course, you are correct. But none the less the article is extremely illuminating. Roy Cohn is hated by the left precisely because he was so effective at combating communism (and later, his legal opponents). He was also apparently quite a NYC socialite and counted among his close personal friends people of many political stripes (including Barbara Walters).

Whether one sees Trump’s association with him as something negative or positive depends on one’s knowledge of history and one’s political bent. (And history has shown that Sen Joseph McCarthy was correct in his accusations about communist inflitration of the US government in the early 1950s.)

My point is that there is no doubt that Trump understands the nature of the leftist enemy thanks to his association with Cohn in a way that most modern conservatives do not.

The left plays with no rules and no morality and hence can only be combatted by the politicla equivalent of brass knuckles.


13 posted on 05/25/2016 7:54:09 AM PDT by Simon Foxx
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To: Starboard

Trump plays to win, in marked contrast to everyone else in the GOP.


You mean he’s not going to run a Roll Over And Play Dead campaign like Mitt ran against Barry in 2012?


14 posted on 05/25/2016 7:57:22 AM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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To: Simon Foxx

If you want to win at anything you must score more points than your opponent. And you can only do this by going on offense.

The Leftists are well schooled in the art of political combat and they easily run over Republicans all the time. However, this time they are facing someone who knows how to win and has the killer’s instinct. That’s what it takes.


15 posted on 05/25/2016 9:08:01 AM PDT by Starboard
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Something the old media doesn’t mention—guess who else was closely advised by Roy Cohn?


16 posted on 05/25/2016 9:10:53 AM PDT by ModelBreaker (')
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To: Simon Foxx

Norm Peale.


17 posted on 05/25/2016 9:16:11 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors)
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To: Ancesthntr
I believe what you say, and you put it very well.

Trump is indeed the unique man of the hour. He has the gravitas of George Washington and he's going to give the American experiment in freedom a new lease on life.

18 posted on 05/25/2016 10:15:43 AM PDT by poconopundit (When the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government. Franklin, Const. Conv.)
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