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alfredo

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73. Roy Cohn was trump's mentor

Tue Feb 7, 2017, 09:50 PM

Feb 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/us/politics/donald-trump-roy-cohn.html?_r=0

"For Mr. Cohn, who died of AIDS in 1986, weeks after being disbarred for flagrant ethical violations, Mr. Trump was something of a final project. If Fred Trump got his son’s career started, bringing him into the family business of middle-class rentals in Brooklyn and Queens, Mr. Cohn ushered him across the river and into Manhattan, introducing him to the social and political elite while ferociously defending him against a growing list of enemies.

Decades later, Mr. Cohn’s influence on Mr. Trump is unmistakable. Mr. Trump’s wrecking ball of a presidential bid — the gleeful smearing of his opponents, the embracing of bluster as brand — has been a Roy Cohn number on a grand scale. Mr. Trump’s response to the Orlando massacre, with his ominous warnings of a terrorist attack that could wipe out the country and his conspiratorial suggestions of a Muslim fifth column in the United States, seemed to have been ripped straight out of the Cohn playbook."

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"Want to give his name? We'll destroy his career." --Trump, today, to a TX sheriff [View all] bigtree Feb 2017 OP

Reminds me of a snip I saw during the campaign. trotsky Feb 2017 #1

Yep. This. n/t Beartracks Feb 2017 #21

Fucking EVIL DICTATOR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SamKnause Feb 2017 #2

"On asset forfeiture, weve got a state senator in Hortensis Feb 2017 #23

So, he supports legalized theft w/o due process and "destroying" public officials Proud Liberal Dem Feb 2017 #38

Yes, highly! Trump might have been sorta joking, but with Hortensis Feb 2017 #40

Now you are catching on, I dont know how he has hid this Eliot Rosewater Feb 2017 #51

Due process is hated by dictators and their black booted thugs. nt tblue37 Feb 2017 #39

Must be a shock to Trump when lower-level functionaries Hortensis Feb 2017 #48

And Sessions track record on this is in line with Trump's it would seem... JHan Feb 2017 #53

Prisons for profit. What could possibly go wrong. Dark n Stormy Knight Feb 2017 #54

As the right screams, Sharia Law! sarcasmo Feb 2017 #30

Don't the Russians have.... Plucketeer Feb 2017 #34

+1 bluescribbler Feb 2017 #71

Dictator! jpak Feb 2017 #3

Scary. Glimmer of Hope Feb 2017 #4

Why is this not screaming headlines.... Boxerfan Feb 2017 #5

The Washington Post has it now! PearliePoo2 Feb 2017 #52

My favorite comment: Generic Other Feb 2017 #64

Yep, giving cops a legal profit motive for policing is just a plain f**king stupid idea! Dustlawyer Feb 2017 #78

Anyone want to ask President Trump what he meant by that? gratuitous Feb 2017 #6

Well let's go back to what he said last week, we have killers elehhhhna Feb 2017 #49

It would probably entail a late-night tweet subterranean Feb 2017 #76

Not at all presidential BSdetect Feb 2017 #7

Lunatic THUG....nt 2naSalit Feb 2017 #13

I totally agree! I wonder if any politician will have the cojones to say anything against raccoon Feb 2017 #58

Tony Soprano Jim Beard Feb 2017 #8

Tony was actually a better person NastyRiffraff Feb 2017 #19

At least Tony knew he needed psychiatric help. nt tblue37 Feb 2017 #41

Tony Soprano, at least, kept his business out of bankruptcy. LudwigPastorius Feb 2017 #20

the asshole-in-chief spanone Feb 2017 #9

Dictators do this kind of stuff, so do warlords and tinpot tyrants procon Feb 2017 #10

Trumputin has learned from his puppetmasters wordpix Feb 2017 #11

Roy Cohn was trump's mentor alfredo Feb 2017 #73

This is huge. Want to see Drumpf from the inside? LuckyLib Feb 2017 #74

True. alfredo Feb 2017 #75

Yep. The same Roy Cohn who worked so closely with Joe McCarthy. YoungDemCA Feb 2017 #82

Nixon was part of that mess too. alfredo Feb 2017 #85

wow barbtries Feb 2017 #12

As if that might tarnish his rep... BBG Feb 2017 #25

it's one way to get thieving law enforcement agencies barbtries Feb 2017 #35

Well this seems like something the MSM should be reporting. logosoco Feb 2017 #14

more evidence bdamomma Feb 2017 #15

Isn't that pretty much the very definition of "abuse of power"? forgotmylogin Feb 2017 #16

yeah. barbtries Feb 2017 #36

Nixon was excoriated for his enemies list. nt tblue37 Feb 2017 #42

K & R for exposure of fascist. nt SunSeeker Feb 2017 #17

When do we rise up and destroy them? Initech Feb 2017 #18

He's at it again, every day he wins the "worst person in the world, today" award. lark Feb 2017 #22

And every day, he is busted in an out and out lie too. world wide wally Feb 2017 #61

What will it take to bring him down? mrgorth Feb 2017 #24

He said during the campaign that he could do that in Ilsa Feb 2017 #33

I believe it. The former AG was one of the few who stood up to him. raccoon Feb 2017 #59

That right there makes him unqualified to sit in the Oval Office. Rex Feb 2017 #26

That is evil. Pure oozing evil. Achilleaze Feb 2017 #27

Comrade Casino! Love it! Rex Feb 2017 #32

Everything is personal to Trump PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2017 #28

was this exchange on twitter? onetexan Feb 2017 #29

he was meeting with law enforcement folks in the white house.... spanone Feb 2017 #31

A lunatic thug malaise Feb 2017 #44

guess that's why he's so enamored by putin spanone Feb 2017 #45

I gotta tell you, if I ever ended up on a jury trial that resulted from any situation avebury Feb 2017 #37

Trump is a Banana Republic Dictator Thug workinclasszero Feb 2017 #43

When someone as evil as this should be impeached, why is it that we are commited to having Pense Doitnow Feb 2017 #46

Doitnow, recommend you read the Constitution. There's even a good paperback with ... Hekate Feb 2017 #56

Thanks. I do remember the Agnew episode. Our activism is so important right now. Doitnow Feb 2017 #83

"Quipped"?! Oh that Donald, such a puckish sense of humor. Hekate Feb 2017 #47

he has as much finesse' as... Javaman Feb 2017 #50

Good analogy! nt raccoon Feb 2017 #60

Does the Sheriff acknowledge that he was almost complicit in a crime? randr Feb 2017 #55

there's the fucking domestic terrorist! Sunlei Feb 2017 #57

And the men in attendance all responded with a "yuk, yuk, yuk" LuckyLib Feb 2017 #62

This is full on fascism...just stunning. And not on any news programs. adigal Feb 2017 #63

Look at what they can do in Oklahoma Rstrstx Feb 2017 #65

A public threat in plain sight bucolic_frolic Feb 2017 #66

Hey, it was just a "quip." Yanno, FUNNY! A JOKE, already... TygrBright Feb 2017 #67

WTF is wrong with this guy? Initech Feb 2017 #68

Absolutely nothing, if you ask HIM. dchill Feb 2017 #80

Yeah, this fucker needs his fucking "career destroyed" NOW Cha Feb 2017 #69

Abuse os power.Trump is very dangerous. The Wielding Truth Feb 2017 #70

Dictator. sarcasmo Feb 2017 #72

Time to go, asshole orangecrush Feb 2017 #77

Is there any limit . . . OldRedneck Feb 2017 #79

That legislator Percy Cholmondeley Feb 2017 #81

Since we have so many dumbasses from Texas, allow me this one comment, please. hamsterjill Feb 2017 #84