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The Man Who Made Trump · The Lucas Bean Show

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  SPEAKER_00: Roy Cohn was Donald Trump's lawyer and mentor, his role model.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump called Roy Cohn the toughest man he ever met.
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  SPEAKER_00: Roy Cohn was also a closeted gay man,
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  SPEAKER_00: not openly gay,
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  SPEAKER_00: viciously,
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  SPEAKER_00: aggressively,
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  SPEAKER_00: dangerously closeted gay.
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  He helped McCarthy destroy the lives of gay government
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  employees during the Lavender Scare.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a psychological reason for that.
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  In 1936,
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  psychoanalyst Anna Freud identified a defense mechanism she
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  called reaction formation.
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  When the brain encounters something it finds shameful,
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  it does not suppress it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It converts it into the opposite behavior.
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  SPEAKER_00: Roy Cohn was diagnosed with AIDS in 1984.
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  SPEAKER_00: He told everyone it was liver cancer.
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  SPEAKER_00: He bullied the Reagans into giving him experimental treatment,
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  SPEAKER_00: while they denied the same treatment to Rock Hudson.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was disbarred for fraud three weeks before he died.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump did not visit his mentor while he was dying.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every generation has a Roy Cohn.
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  A gay man so terrified of himself that he spends his life
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  destroying other gay people.
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  The loudest voices against gay rights are almost always the
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  ones with the most to hide.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump's mentor was gay.
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  SPEAKER_00: His lawyer was gay.
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  SPEAKER_00: His role model was gay.
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  Makes you wonder who else in that circle is hiding the same
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  secret and all of the
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  SPEAKER_00: damage they're causing because of it.