Trump’s strange tweet about Joseph McCarthy

Cohn met Trump in the early ‘70s—and quickly became the most important person in his life. There are other pivotal, enduring influences, of course. His father. His mother. Mischievous political strategist and Richard Nixon devotee Roger Stone. But there is only one Roy Cohn. From Cohn’s combative representation of Trump and his father when the Department of Justice sued them in 1973 for racial bias in the rentals of their outer-borough apartments … to Trump’s tax-abatement-abetted, career-launching conversion of the Commodore Hotel into the Grand Hyatt by Grand Central Station … to the name-making project of Trump Tower and the additional public subsidies it got through appeals … to the countless introductions to New York City’s somebodies … Trump simply could not have done what he did without the connections and machinations of Cohn. He was a peerless fixer who had plucked from the playbook of McCarthy to add to his own talents and vacuities to create a unique dark-arts persona, the single degree of separation, the sole, taut line, between one of America’s most reprehensible politicians and its 45th president.

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Cohn never stopped talking about McCarthy.

He never stopped touting him.

“He knew he had power, because he could engender fear in his opponents,” Cohn said in an interview with Penthouse in 1981.

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