Looking for, not finding, Roy Cohn

Anyone willing? Being able is not a requirement.

From the movie “The Apprentice,” starring Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump.Credit...Scythia Films… (not yet available ion the USA).

Mike Johnson is conspiring with 78 year old convicted felon Donald Trump to undermine the courts “or else” is Donnie’s demand. What was Johnson’s reply?

Nope, he had to go to work. The plan is to somehow kick the state thing up to the feds and well, bon chance with your Oceans 2 plan.

Imagine the eff words, and the knee weakening personal attacks endured on the phone call to the Speaker after the reading of the jury’s finding, in the election interference, hush trial. Trump blew off the usually required meet and greet with the intake parole officer interview. Fresh from the court proceedings, fresh from his conviction, fresh from 6 weeks of day napping, in an attempt to smooth the path to the White House as if he deserved any of it.

The demands are becoming steeper and the will of the party to jump to the commands seem harder to heel for the guy whose own public appearances will be his undoing. Another round of tush kissing was seen, as it happened routinely in the White House under Trump’s administration. Recall the loyalty pledges to him? The hostage photos in the oval as he signed executive order after order, his stupid geigercounter signature after signature in sharpie. Commemorative sharpie anyone?

They will fail him in the end. He’s going to lose. His self inflicted cycle of revenge boomeranging back at him will not abate until he does, another inevitability to live through. Bannon to surrender himself to jail by July 1.

In the ‘one side will win’ - Alito, scenario, I’m going with the will of the people. We are a majority under intense minority rule. No idea the pain to get through it, however the ploys of the Republican Party get sadder and appear less enthusiastic. Another problem the media refuses to let us plan for. The collapse and resuscitation of the Republican Party.

Roy Cohn is a familiar name as a fixer. He became Donald’s teacher to the roadmap of treachery and treachery buried. His espionage trial of the Rosenberg’s behind him as well as McCarthy’s pal, he became Trump’s fixer too.

McCarthy , “…shifting its [his committees] focus from investigating fraud and waste in the executive branch to hunting for Communists. He conducted scores of hearings, calling hundreds of witnesses in both public and closed sessions.” A dark period for many especially in the entertainment world as gays and Jew’s were considered, you guessed it, naturally, commies.

As a result, McCarthy and his chief counsel Roy Cohn largely ran the show by themselves, relentlessly grilling and insulting witnesses. Harvard law dean Ervin Griswold described McCarthy's role as "judge, jury, prosecutor, castigator, and press agent, all in one."

Sounds just exactly like who Trump aspires to be.

…Cohn imparted an M.O. that’s been on searing display throughout Trump’s ascent, his divisive, captivating campaign, and his fraught, unprecedented presidency. Deflect and distract, never give in, never admit fault, lie and attack, lie and attack, publicity no matter what, win no matter what, all underpinned by a deep, prove-me-wrong belief in the power of chaos and fear. - Politico

These headings to set by Cohn may have been refined with the help of Kellyanne Conway and the ever eager media whose ability to fact check hadn’t yet been seen as vital.Stenographers for the White House, recall Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Press Secretary. He appointed only what are now called ‘loyalists’, who pledge to do the dirty.

Didn’t Trump just do this? Didn’t he just get convicted in a similar deal where he asked David Pecker to use his power of the press to kill those unflattering stories to, yep, remove a few stones from his path. What happened recently with the speaker of the house, number three from the presidency, is akin to asking for K-Y to squeeze his increasingly “unhinged” presence past business men and everyone he hopes to impress.

I believe it’s fair enough to say the term ‘fixer’ is a bit misleading. Should be ‘fu*ker’. And he was good. Good for who hired him. But now, gone.

Cohn’s hidden but not so perfectly, sexuality was known not known. Who he encountered? Only the top fellas, a relationship with Cardinal Spellman was hinted. Late in life although he denied being homosexual, a few relationships became well known, acknowledged by most. Linked to his assistant, Russell Eldridge who died from AIDS in 1984 and Peter Fraser, 30 years his junior, was Cohn's partner for the last two years of his life. Cohen died of AIDS when first tip of the fatal iceberg emerged.

During the years of debate over the passage of New York's first gay rights bill, Cohn would align himself with the Archdiocese of New York and express his conviction that "homosexual teachers are a grave threat to our children".

Stunning quote below from a very familiar face from today. Another man who turns up in similar circles Cohn did, Roger Stone.

Roy was not gay. He was a man who liked having sex with men. Gays were weak, effeminate. He always seemed to have these young blond boys around. It just wasn't discussed. He was interested in power and access."^[68]

History records him as having the tenacity to fight in court as if it’s war. It strikes me he lived as he lawyered. No white flags, no mercy, winning without mercy or pity. Donald thought Michael Cohen was the guy. After years of loyalty and try as mightily as he could, Trump was living in a different era. Asking for 1950’s commie outing.

So, no surprise when Cohen landed in jail for his efforts to help Donald with his covering up the payment to Stormy. Finally flips to save himself after clearly being tossed into a grinder as thanks. Donald gave the order, ‘Burry him’, I imagine the call to Barr, his fixer to fix the fixer. He had the bigger hammer if not the biggest as Attorney General and in specific to serve the Donald.

In the Times today, news of a movie, “The Apprentice”. Written with dark details of Donald’s divorce with Ivanah, his aim at the Commodore Hotel, all history from that era. It “is a classic story of a mentor and his protégé, chronicling how Trump first learned from and later surpassed his brutal, Machiavellian fixer.

Shopped at Cannes, and picked up by, many, but no American distributors. Charter a bus to Canada? Distribution being the final arbiters of what’s available to the American movie public. People don’t want trouble. more mob talk as it should be.

Negotiations are ongoing, and domestic distribution could still come together. Yet the possibility that American audiences won’t be able to see “The Apprentice” isn’t just frustrating. It’s frightening, because it suggests that Trump and his supporters have already intimidated some media companies, which seem to be pre-emptively capitulating to him.

Mike Johnson, appears by photos and body language to be 1- out of his depth to lead. 2- oddly disinterested. 3- wants to melt into the ground.

He should lose his Speakership. Let’s see if it amounts to more than telling Drunk Uncle at the end of the bar some soothing words. Sure sure I understand lets see what can be done.

Next up likely… how the Comstock act that protects us from porn in the mail, and how will the courts use it to attack and remove mifepristone from our hands. They do believe we are stupid.

Thanks for being here. I wouldn’t be here without you.

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