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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn is about power
Thursday at 9/8c on HBO
Many interview subjects in this documentary about infamous power-brokering attorney Roy Cohn describe him as one of the most evil men in American history, and he was right in the middle of some very dark stuff, like helping send Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to the electric chair on trumped-up treason charges, advising Sen. Joe McCarthy during the Red Scare, serving as an operative for brutal anti-gay politicians while being gay himself, and helping build a young Donald Trump into the man he became.
This documentary made by director Ivy Meeropol, who is Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's granddaughter reckons with Cohn's grim legacy, with special attention paid to his relationship with Trump as the then-real estate developers attorney from the '70s through the '80s, when Trump abandoned him as he was dying of AIDS. This documentary shows how power works when wielded by someone who uses it exclusively for nefarious purposes.
(From TV Guide)
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(47,476 posts)Good appearance by Dershowitz, though.