Jan 23, 2022 · Donald Trump's former lawyer said Trump told him that Donald Jr. should go to prison over Ivanka. Cohen said the instruction came when Trump's children were on the verge of indictment in 2012....
Dec 22, 2020 · Cohen noted that many of Trump’s most devout supporters have indicated they would support him no matter what. “From them, he just wants $4.99 a month. And for that $4.99 a month, you get to listen to all the bullshit and all the far-right-wing conspiracies that Donald Trump can dream up,” Cohen said. “That’s what he’s going to sell you.
Jan 23, 2022 · When it comes to forecasting whether Trump would face a civil suit, the former Trump attorney said he’s “about as near to a ten as you can go” on a scale of one to ten. “To be more than 100% certain by having others who could also be involved with these types of inflation and deflation of the assets, to have them held responsible too,” Cohen said of James’ request …
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In 1986, after a lifetime of skirting consequences for his corruption, Cohn was disbarred for cheating his clients. (At one point Cohn allegedly dressed up like a male nurse to get a dying multimillionaire client to sign a document making him a trustee of his estate.) Unable to practice law, his power evanesced.
In the 1950s, as chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy, Cohn wasn’t just a key player in the anti-Communist witch hunts of the time. He also persecuted men in the State Department who were suspected of being gay, despite being a closeted gay man himself.
The religious right, of course, hates the new cultural mores because it wanted to re-moralize America on its terms.
For a time, he had a sham engagement to Barbara Walters. He hung out with the famed artist Andy Warhol and was a regular at the oft-mythologized nightclub Studio 54. Warhol is only briefly mentioned in the film, but his diaries mention Cohn’s parties repeatedly.
In “Where’s My Roy Cohn,” an old friend explains how, every year, Cohn held a private dinner for his intimates. After the disbarment, the friend arrived at one such dinner. “When I get there, this long table was set, and nobody came,” he said. At the same time, Cohn was dying of AIDS, though he refused to admit it.
When the Justice Department claimed that apartment buildings owned by the Trump family were discriminating against black renters, it was Cohn’s idea to countersue the Justice Department for $100 million.
Sean Spicer lied to the American people for a living and is now on “Dancing With the Stars.”. Ivanka Trump is still reportedly invited to celebrity weddings. But the left has far more cultural power than in the past, and some on the left have used that power to re-moralize the public square.