{"id":177948,"date":"2018-10-20T04:42:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T04:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=177948"},"modified":"2018-10-22T05:31:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T05:31:57","slug":"who-was-roy-cohn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=177948","title":{"rendered":"Who was Roy Cohn?"},"content":{"rendered":"

henrymakow.com — Oct 20, 2018
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Roy Cohn and Donald Trump. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

“Roy Cohn (1927-1986) fought the Reds.\u00a0\u00a0Beyond that, and because of that,\u00a0it’s difficult to know who Roy M. Cohn was.”<\/strong><\/h5>\n
(Disclaimer- I am not an expert on Cohn, the gangster lawyer who was Donald Trump’s mentor.\u00a0I am posting this highly personal article by a reader, Joseph, as an introduction to this important figure in US history.)<\/h5>\n

by Joseph — <\/strong>(henrymakow.com)<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Two biographies of Cohn have been published<\/strong>:\u00a0 “Citizen Cohn” <\/em>by Nicholas Hoffman, and “The Autobiography [sic] of Roy Cohn”<\/em> by Sidney Zion.<\/h5>\n
Hoffman’s “Citizen Cohn” is by far the most often seen on library shelves.\u00a0 Zion’s “Autobiography of Roy Cohn”<\/em> is less often seen.\u00a0 Cohn’s legal self-help books are less seen still.\u00a0 His\u00a0“McCarthy” (1968)<\/em>\u00a0is available from used book dealers, but is the rarest in libraries:\u00a0 interlibrary loan typically will get it on short-term loan from a distant rural public library.<\/h5>\n
(A more comprehensive view?)\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n
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Roy Marcus Cohn was Senator Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel during the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954<\/p><\/div>\n

“Citizen Cohn”<\/em> is a straightforward hatchet job.\u00a0 It will tell you that to relieve perianal itching related to homosexual activities, Cohn pulled down his underpants while riding in a fancy car full of corporate lawyers, and put his butt to the air conditioner vent.\u00a0 It will tell you worse than that.<\/h5>\n
“The Autobiography of Roy Cohn” <\/em>is baffling.\u00a0 For an autobiography to be authored by someone else, is a contradiction in terms, so much so that the book often is erroneously listed as co-authored by Cohn and Zion.\u00a0 Furthermore, the most edifying passages in the book – it is easy to find them – are copied without attribution and with only minor changes in wording, from Cohn’s real autobiography\u00a0“McCarthy”<\/em>.\u00a0 So, it is easy to prove that Cohn wrote enough of Zion’s book, that Cohn should have been listed as co-author.\u00a0 Zion explains that Cohn originally wrote the book, but it was boring, so Cohn brought in Zion to redo it and jazz it up with oral history.<\/h5>\n

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