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The episode discusses Roy Cohn's influence on Donald Trump and his controversial life.

In the FOURTH PART of the special Court of History series on Donald Trump’s malevolent mentor Roy Cohn, Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Kai Bird, author of “American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey,” on hos Roy Cohn molded Donald Trump into his creation, brought him into his mob underworld to build Trump Tower, advance him through corruption, teach his the lessons of intimidation, lying and stealing, cheated Ivana Trump in her prenup, lived a closeted gay life, turned into a pedophile, was disbarred, and died of AIDS, cut off from Trump, who sobbed at his funeral, and plaintively asks, “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join Become a member of the Legal AF Substack: https://michaelpopok.substack.com/20off Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/legalafmtn.bsky.social Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mspopok.bsky.social Subscribe to the Legal AF podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch/id1580828595 Subscribe to the Intersection with…

People in this episode

Hosts: Sidney Blumenthal, Sean Wilentz

Guest: Kai Bird

Topics covered

• Donald Trump
• Roy Cohn
• corruption
• mob underworld
• AIDS
• mentorship

Keywords

• Roy Cohn
• Donald Trump
• mentorship
• corruption
• mob
• AIDS
• Ivana Trump

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