Donald Trump & Roy Cohn: A Perfect Match.

I have just finished reading Ncholas van Hoffman’s book about Roy Cohn, which was published shortly after Cohn died in 1986. You may recall that Cohn was Trump’s attorney until shortly before he was disbarred (Trump has a funny habitfif hiring lawyers who then get disbarred, viz., Cohen and Giuliani) but what he taught Trump about politics seems to be the game plan being used by Trump to keep himself in the center of things.

Cohn’s treatment by the media also seems to be replicated by the way the liberal media deals with Trump, but more on that below after I first talk about how Cohn became both famous and infamous in the first place.

Coming out of law school in 1947, Cohn got a job as an assistant federal attorney in the New York district office, and by 1950 had started going after people who were considered to be helpmates to the Soviet Union’s attempt to spread communist beliefs and behaviors around the globe.

The ‘red scare’ as it came to be known, was largely due to the degree to which what had been America’s world leadership at the end of World War II quickly became challenged by the Soviet Union which quickly consolidated its control over Eastern European client states and broke our nuclear monopoly in 1949.

This was the same year that China became a Communist nation-state, so suddenly the…