Another depiction of the evil mentor-protege relationship between Roy COHN and DRUMPF

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We know almost all of this already, along with the myriad cesspool of DRUMPF's history, and it. does. not. matter.

But it's a masterful re-telling.


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http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/donald-trump-roy-cohn-relationship#intcid=dt-recirc-cral_top1_1

How Donald Trump and Roy Cohn’s Ruthless Symbiosis Changed America
BY MARIE BRENNER June 28, 2017

.... The tabloids couldn’t get enough of the Trumps’ theatrics. And as Donald Trump’s Hyatt rose, so too did the hidden hand of his attorney Roy Cohn, always there to help with the shady tax abatements, the zoning variances, the sweetheart deals, and the threats to those who might stand in the project’s way.

Cohn was best known as a ruthless prosecutor. During the Red Scare of the 1950s, he and Wisconsin senator Joe McCarthy, the fabulist and virulent nationalist crusader, had hauled dozens of alleged “Communist sympathizers” before a Senate panel. Earlier, the House Un-American Activities Committee had skewered artists and entertainers on similar charges, resulting in a trail of fear, prison sentences, and ruined careers for hundreds, many of whom had found common cause in fighting Fascism. But in the decades since, Cohn had become the premier practitioner of hardball deal-making in New York, having mastered the arcane rules of the city’s Favor Bank (the local cabal of interconnected influence peddlers) and its magical ability to provide inside fixes for its machers and rogues. ....

“Pro-Americanism (sic),” Stone said, “is a common thread for McCarthy, Goldwater, Nixon, (and) Reagan. The heir to that tradition is Donald Trump. When you combine that with the bare-knuckled tactics of Roy Cohn—or a Roger Stone—that is how you win elections. So Roy has an impact on Donald’s understanding of how to deal with the media—attack, attack, attack, never defend.” ....

Cohn also had asked a favor of Trump: Could he give him a hotel room for his lover, who was dying of AIDS? A room was found in the Barbizon Plaza Hotel. Months passed. Then Cohn got the bill. Then another. He refused to pay. At some point, according to The New York Times’s Jonathan Mahler and Matt Flegenheimer, Trump would present Cohn with a thank-you gift for a decade of favors: a pair of diamond cuff links. The diamonds turned out to be fakes.

Tensions between the two became progressively strained. And the dying Cohn, as Barrett would describe him in those waning days, would say, “Donald pisses ice water.” ....

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1. There's an early Stephen King story -- Apt Pupil

The Cohn relationship reminds me of that.

As with many King stories, it doesn't end well.

Cohn was an evil, evil SOB, but his worst creation was his pupil.

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2. I culled from the article 20+ tactics from COHN that DRUMPF uses, but too long to quote here

Things like "attack attack attack" and all.


KING has been fantastic in his anti-DRUMPF public statements, recognizes the evil.

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3. Under the Dome is one of his best political commentaries.

Not the TV wreck, but the book. It's so damn easy to go sideways.

Big Jim Rennie is more realistic and more frightening even than Greg Stillson. And that's an accomplishment.

King has an amazing empathy. It goes into the dark well most of the time, but he can articulate the depth of human failures like very few have ever done. (When his prose is shaky, it's shaky, but when it's on, it's gorgeous, and he's been on much more for the past decade.)

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4. This article deserves a shameless self-kick