As always, the historical context you provide gives a continuity to events I hadn’t realized were related, such as today’s connection between McCarthy, Cohn and Trump. It shows who Trump is trying to emulate, when he isn’t channeling Hitler.
And in typical Trump fashion, he’s now trying out the newest claim about the FBI search warrant an…
As always, the historical context you provide gives a continuity to events I hadn’t realized were related, such as today’s connection between McCarthy, Cohn and Trump. It shows who Trump is trying to emulate, when he isn’t channeling Hitler.
And in typical Trump fashion, he’s now trying out the newest claim about the FBI search warrant and deadly force by taking something common place and throwing it against the wall to see what sticks. The gag order lies about stopping him from testifying seemed to play well for him but with the trial drawing to a close he’ll need a new one and so he’s trying this on for size. He also often seems to try irrelevant words on for size when describing and insulting people without seeming to understand their actual meaning. Referring to Judge Merchan as conflicted is an odd choice of descriptions to me. To quote from one of my favorite movies, “You keep using that word. I do not think that word means what you think it means.”
There are many who have known about Cohn mentoring Trump in his early years. Unfortunately, it was well hidden when we needed to know before the 2016 election.
This was written in Politico back in 2019: 'Roy Cohn, who has been described by people who knew him as “a snake,” “a scoundrel” and “a new strain of son of a bitch,” is the subject of a new documentary out this week from producer and director Matt Tyrnauer. It’s an occasion to once again look at Cohn and ask how much of him and his “savage,” “abrasive” and “amoral” behavior is visible in the behavior of the current president. Trump, as has been well-established, learned so much from the truculent, unrepentant Cohn about how to get what he wants, and he pines for Cohn and his notorious capabilities still.'
I seem to recall press and magazine hints and implications throughout the long Roy Cohn/tfg association in terms of questionable practices from 1973 until Cohn's aids related death in 1986. Cohn, of course, cut his political chops assisting Senator Joseph McCarthy and turned around to coach tfg and introduce him to such stellar "movers and shakers" as Manafort and Stone. The seeds were there for decades.
As always, the historical context you provide gives a continuity to events I hadn’t realized were related, such as today’s connection between McCarthy, Cohn and Trump. It shows who Trump is trying to emulate, when he isn’t channeling Hitler.
And in typical Trump fashion, he’s now trying out the newest claim about the FBI search warrant and deadly force by taking something common place and throwing it against the wall to see what sticks. The gag order lies about stopping him from testifying seemed to play well for him but with the trial drawing to a close he’ll need a new one and so he’s trying this on for size. He also often seems to try irrelevant words on for size when describing and insulting people without seeming to understand their actual meaning. Referring to Judge Merchan as conflicted is an odd choice of descriptions to me. To quote from one of my favorite movies, “You keep using that word. I do not think that word means what you think it means.”
There are many who have known about Cohn mentoring Trump in his early years. Unfortunately, it was well hidden when we needed to know before the 2016 election.
This was written in Politico back in 2019: 'Roy Cohn, who has been described by people who knew him as “a snake,” “a scoundrel” and “a new strain of son of a bitch,” is the subject of a new documentary out this week from producer and director Matt Tyrnauer. It’s an occasion to once again look at Cohn and ask how much of him and his “savage,” “abrasive” and “amoral” behavior is visible in the behavior of the current president. Trump, as has been well-established, learned so much from the truculent, unrepentant Cohn about how to get what he wants, and he pines for Cohn and his notorious capabilities still.'
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/19/roy-cohn-donald-trump-documentary-228144/
I seem to recall press and magazine hints and implications throughout the long Roy Cohn/tfg association in terms of questionable practices from 1973 until Cohn's aids related death in 1986. Cohn, of course, cut his political chops assisting Senator Joseph McCarthy and turned around to coach tfg and introduce him to such stellar "movers and shakers" as Manafort and Stone. The seeds were there for decades.
I share your jaw-drop at this whole thing. When you step back to survey who McCarthy, Cohn and Trump really are they become cartoon characters....
Heather doesn’t comment, just quotes: In an email with a subject line “They were authorized to shoot me—I nearly escaped death,”
So unfortunately not true.