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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm Roy Cohn's Cousin. He Would Have Detested Trump's Russia Fawning.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/24/roy-cohn-trump-cousin-228167My cousin Roy Marcus Cohncounsel to Senator Joe McCarthy, consigliere to Mafia bosses, mentor to Donald Trumphad almost no principles. He smeared Jews even though he was Jewish. He tarred Democrats even though he was a Democrat. He persecuted gay people even though he was gay.
Yet throughout his life, he held fast to one certainty: Russia and America were enemies. Roy often told me the Kremlin blamed the U.S. for Russias failure to prosper, so Russian leaders were bent on destroying our democracy.
If Roy had lived another 30 years, Im sure hed be pleased to learn that his protégé was elected president. But I am equally sure Roy would be appalled by Trumps obsequious devotion to ex-KGB officer Vladimir Putin. In his nasal tone, Roy would warn that Putin follows the Soviet playbook by interfering with elections in Western Europe; invading sovereign nations such as Ukraine; and assassinating dissidents and journalists.
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I'm Roy Cohn's Cousin. He Would Have Detested Trump's Russia Fawning. (Original Post)
PupCamo
Sep 2019
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lapfog_1
(29,219 posts)1. When Roy was Donny's mentor
Donny was living large off Daddy Trump's money...
After that ran out, Donny needed a new "Daddy" to fund his failing businesses... enter the Oligarchs and Putin
Hekate
(90,773 posts)2. Roy Cohn mentored young Donald, & shaped his worldview
This evil is as much on him as on anyone else.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)3. I really doubt that.
That piece of shit detested homosexuals and leveraged knowledge about people he knew were gay against them, even though he was one.
He would have rationalized this, just like he rationalized anything.
UTUSN
(70,725 posts)4. K&R but giving COHN one point of credit is too much credit. Other cousins of Roy COHN:
Dick Toesucker MORRIS and Lawrence FERLINGHETTI - one good one out of three.
boston bean
(36,223 posts)5. I did not know the sucker was his cousin! Explains a lot!