Conversations with Jim Zirin
What Did Donald Trump Learn from Roy Cohn?
6/18/2018 | 26m 43sVideo has Closed Captions
What Did Donald Trump Learn from Roy Cohn?
In 1978, gifted writer Ken Auletta profiled for Esquire the pugnacious attorney Roy Cohn whom he called the "personification of evil." Cohn died in 1986 discredited and disbarred. Donald Trump was a Cohn client and close friend. He called Cohn his mentor. Ken Auletta tells Jim Zirin some of the dirty tricks Trump learned at the feet of the master of the smear.
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Conversations with Jim Zirin is a local public television program presented by THIRTEEN PBS
Conversations with Jim Zirin
What Did Donald Trump Learn from Roy Cohn?
6/18/2018 | 26m 43sVideo has Closed Captions
In 1978, gifted writer Ken Auletta profiled for Esquire the pugnacious attorney Roy Cohn whom he called the "personification of evil." Cohn died in 1986 discredited and disbarred. Donald Trump was a Cohn client and close friend. He called Cohn his mentor. Ken Auletta tells Jim Zirin some of the dirty tricks Trump learned at the feet of the master of the smear.
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