That intellectual laziness was demonstrated again, as Trump quotes Sean Hannity complaining about “modern day McCarthyism” without understanding what it actually means. Even if some use it as a synonym for political witch-hunting, Trump’s own personal history with McCarthy’s lawyer always brings on the irony when he refers to it.
Trump has used it before in tweets and each time has been promptly ridiculed for his association with Roy Cohn, but apparently idiot Trump remains desperate for any material to offset the continuing troubles of #TrumpRussia.
We know he talks to Hannity regularly in the evenings. but Trump forgets that he’s been dragged for misusing Joseph McCarthy references before. Aside from misspelling McCarthy, what are “fishing net expeditions”.
So the GOP is complaining about the search for communists while complaining about Democrats being socialists.
Where’s my Roy Cohn?” is a quote attributed to Donald Trump, who asked this of his aides in a moment of exasperation when he was unable to make the Russia investigation disappear. Nowhere is this explained or mentioned in Matt Tyrnauer’s documentary, giving its title a weirdly philosophical air. Is the implication that everyone has a Roy Cohn? I should hope not!
Roy Cohn was a corrupt lawyer, political dirty trickster, mafia associate and scumbag. He was a self-hating Jew who powered the engine of one of the worst antisemitic moments in American history, the demonization and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. He was a closeted man who refused to publicly identify as gay even as he was dying of Aids. He was so famous for being a mean bastard that there were not one but two jokes at his expense on the Simpsons. There are not too many lawyers that can make such a claim.
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He graduated from Columbia Law School at the age of 20 and quickly found himself as one of the leading “red-baiters”, allegedly rooting out communists in government positions and the US army for the good of democracy. He was the Gríma Wormtongue to Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose last name is a now a synonym for political witch-hunting.
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Donald Trump was, for many years, a joke (though never a harmless one) but the damage he’s currently doing shames all of us for ever laughing. This film connects a direct line between Roy Cohn’s belligerent, boorish and obstructionist ways and our current, less eloquent nightmare. To answer the question “where’s my Roy Cohn?” he is, unfortunately, in the White House.
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