The pattern of covert operations executed in public, from the beginning of the Cold War to the 2016 election, by Russians agents Roy Cohn and Donald Trump: improper influence, espionage, propaganda, sabotage, and ultimately betrayal of country.
Tag: re: Roy Cohn
June 28, 2017 — How Donald Trump and Roy Cohn’s Ruthless Symbiosis Changed America, by Marie Brenner
"In 1973, a brash young would-be developer from Queens met one of New York’s premier power brokers: Roy Cohn, whose name is still synonymous with the rise of McCarthyism and its dark political arts. With the ruthless attorney as a guide, Trump propelled himself into the city’s power circles and learned many of the tactics that would inexplicably lead him to the White House years later."
February 26, 1979 — A Seamless Web, by Wayne Barrett
"He was the first reporter who took Donald Trump seriously. An old-school, pen-and-paper, document-driven, sourced-up investigative ace for the Village Voice in New York, Wayne Barrett nailed the aspiring real estate developer... 'Donald Trump,' he wrote, in January of 1979, 'is a user of other users' ... The credo of the indefatigable Barrett: “the exposure of the plunderers, the steerers, the wirepullers, the bosses, the brokers, the campaign fixers and takers. … Stew, percolate, pester, track, burrow, besiege, confront, damage, level. Care."
May 28, 2020 — The Psychopath in Chief, by Tony Schwartz
"I spent hundreds of hours with Donald Trump to ghost-write ‘The Art of the Deal.’ I now see a deeper meaning behind his behavior."
February 6, 1986 — Closing arguments: Roy Cohn still battling the bar — and for his life, by Philip Lentz
"Scrapper Roy Cohn fights to the finish, and this time he's likely to lose."
Donald J. Trump — A Russian Agent, Wrecker, and Traitor 