Roy Cohn

It's a real kind of canon history book and it's riveting and all that.

So yeah, American Scandal about Roy Cohn by Kai Bird and what is her name? Susan Goldmark.

Nice.

Nice.

Obviously.

And at this point, he gets rid of Rivet, his closest friend, his mentor for most, you know, this early period, writes him a letter saying, I've come to the unhappy conclusion that you'll have to step down as editor-in-chief.

Doubtless, you would not agree with my reasons, which are many, so it is better not to go into them at this stage.

And then puts in a note saying, you have to leave the office in 24 hours.

It's mine.

Simple as that.

Around this time, he's also introduced to Reagan's inner circle by Donald Trump's mentor, Roy Cohn.

Oh, wow.

He loves to fight.

Roy Cohn's lesson that if you're not at war with him, at least 10 enemies, something is wrong with you.

And third, he welcomes the chance to condemn the Democrats for winning by cheating, his favorite topic over the last, you know, eight or 12 years.

And it's easily to imagine him going on for weeks about how voting machines in Texas switched votes from Paxton to Tallarico, or thousands of non-citizens voted for Abdul El-Sayed in Dearborn.

you gotta realize how he came up in the world, right? I mean, he's a New York, uh, came from a wealthy family, from a real estate family, um, always had to prove himself, felt like his dad thought he wasn't much and his mother loved him, but thought he was kind of dumb.

So he's always trying to prove himself and he has his best, um, advice he got from Roy Cohn, uh, you know, a really corrupt, uh, lawyer in Washington who has just a very storied history.

And Roy Cohn's advice in anything is you deny, deny, deny, lie, keep repeating the lie and you, you win at all costs.

I mean, this is a Roy Cohn advice.

And so Trump was kind of, that was the guy he hung out with when he, in his formative adult years, not his childhood, obviously, thank God, but his formative adult years in business.

You know, and then all the people, the conservative Republicans, or I should say the religious conservatives who supported Trump, turned a blind eye to his moral failings, right? I mean, because seriously, all these politicians are corrupt, right? But they turned a blind eye.

People can do some of their history research and stuff.

Roy Cohn was a closeted homosexual man, and he was the mentor for Sir Don here.

He was given...

He was looked at, groomed by.

He fit the perfect physical specimen that Roy Cohn looked for in men.

He liked blondes, tall, good-looking.

Back then, Trump was a good-looking guy.

Yeah, he was.

I mean, that calls to mind the Nixon-Kennedy debate in 1960 when everyone on the radio thought Nixon had run, but everyone who watched it on television seeing him sweat and squirm thought that he'd lost.

I mean, the point about Trump, as I said earlier, is that he's used this technique throughout his entire career as a property developer and a politician to try and browbeat people and intimidate and bully people out of his way and it's a technique he learned from his famous and notorious mentor Roy Cohn who was an associate of McCarthy and this is just a really disgusting revolting person and this is just a further example of that another interesting judgment ruling made by this judge Tim was that the BBC would be entitled to depose certain members of Trump's family, which I think just makes the situation worse and worse for the Trumps.

I mean, if you imagine Jared Kushner submitting to a deposition under oath on almost any topic under the sun, that's likely to end, frankly, in tears for the Trumps.

And indeed, the same might apply to Don Jr. and various other siblings.

The mistreatment and abuse of women is just part of the larger picture.

You know, he learned everything at Roy Cohn's knee and at his father's knee.

And, you know, it's all about winning and, you know, devil take the hindmost and and buying off politicians and making sure you don't have to pay your last installment of your contract and and using muscle and thugs to to threaten people.

And yeah, so it's it's you know, it's New York, New York businessman slash mafia, mafia.

And I kind of grew up with that environment.

Roy Cohn, the famous attorney, was my cousin.

And I became very involved in politics through my family.

So as far as you have, you moved politically over the years or are you the same? You're the same philosophy you always had.