The Man Who Made Trump
Most people have never heard of Roy Cohn. That is by design.
Roy Cohn spent his entire career making sure that the most important things about him never made it into the public record. He was Donald Trump’s mentor, his lawyer, his role model, and the architect of the political style that now runs the United States government.
He was also gay.
Deeply, desperately, dangerously closeted gay.
And the distance between those two facts is where American history gets very dark very fast.
WHO ROY COHN WAS
Roy Cohn was born in the Bronx in 1927. He graduated from Columbia Law School at 20, so young he…
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