MAXIMUM CORRUPTION TRUMP: “WHERE’S MY COHN?”
Roy Cohn, a Mafia-connected lawyer in high echelons of crime and government from the 1950s, associated with Sen. Joe McCarthy, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Rupert Murdoch, Fred Trump…and Donald Trump.
The list above is far from complete, as you’ll learn by following my text plus the links.
Roy Cohn, an associate of Donald’s father Fred Trump, and an early mentor Donald Trump, will certainly qualify as among the most corrupt figures in mid-to-late 20th Century New York City. His circle of crime extends not only to Mafia figures but also as a personal confidant of big names including Sen. Joe McCarthy, Ronald Reagan, Rupert Murdoch, the Bush dynasty, and other kingpins of Corporate Amerika. Cohn dallied with Mafia leaders and other crooks…
Roy Cohn took 23 year old Donald Trump under his wing, helping Trump’s crooked father Fred Trump shape the creature we see today holding the Nuclear Football in the White House. Or as Bush43
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Who was Roy Cohn?
Roy Marcus Cohn was born in New York City in 1927 and died in 1986, age 59, in Bethesda, Maryland.
WIKIPEDIA BIO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn
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After writing that scary article (Nuclear Football in Trump’s Hands) a few days ago, I was planning to unwind for a half hour or so before bed time, while skimming through YouTube videos on my computer.
Oh but wow! The ghost of A.I. must already be hard at work online. I was floored by the ocean of material that swept over me like an incoming storm tide. Remember that I had mentioned thriller movies like 1964’s Dr. Strangelove in my analysis of Trump getting the Nuclear Football (to destroy the world if he wishes) on 20 Jan 2025.
Here is a photo from the 1950s of young Roy Cohn (at right) with the notorious Senator Joe McCarthy (Republican).
Imagine my surprise when YouTube belched up a free version of the 1964 thriller Dr. Strangelove, about an accidental attack by U.S. B-52 bombers on the Soviet Union. That, and Seven Days in May, were among the movies playing in my memory as I thought about all the terrible things Trump might do with the Nuclear Football. I was going to spend the next article writing about another thriller, my prophetic 1990s CON2: The Generals of October, later also titled CON2: Autumn of the Republic. The novel concerns the danger of holding a Second Constitutional Convention in the near future (CON2) and how that might be hijacked by a potential dictator (like Trump). On 6 Jan 2021, two days after the insurrection by Trump’s republican goons, I quickly re-released my novel under a new title: CON2:Washington Under Siege. I will get back to that CON2 topic, but my time and attention have been usurped as follows:
In the next breath, after Dr. Strangelove, I stumbled on another YouTube video titled Where’s My Cohn?
Allegedly, those words were spoken by Donald Trump a few years back when he was (as usual) in deep legal and political trouble and (as usual) wriggling free of all law and morality while leaving his henchmen to suffer bankruptcy, ruin, and jail time (e.g. Rudy Giuliani et al).
I’ve been struggling for several days to put together a coherent, sufficiently inclusive article describing the network of crime and corruption surrounding Trump (his father Fred Trump, and then the Donald himself).
The name Roy Cohn rang a bell for me, but I had to look more deeply to let my memory re-shape needed old info connections. Boy, was I horrified, sickened, and astounded. And yet, the connections made a lot of things fall into place, connect the dots, and make sense.
Roy Cohn turns out to have been a key figure shaping the life of a young, 23-year-old Donald Trump, who already had been vetted by his ruthless, cruel, scheming father Fred Trump. Between the two of them, these two sleazy figures (the Roy and the Fred) propelled our future ‘president’ both to the lowest realms of dishonesty and the highest realms of callous world power.
As my previous article mentions, this dark messenger from Gehenna (Donald Trump) will be given the Nuclear Football on 20 January 2025. There is no telling what he will do once he is the world’s most powerful ‘man,’ but the potential is Biblical in its horror and murderous potential. Worst case scenario, he might just go nuts (let’s say, if he knows his days are numbered for some reason) and take the whole planet with him.
So again: my plan had been to turn to another scary story, my political thriller (Constitution Thriller) CON2: The Generals of October and talk about what could happen if the citizens of this country could be led to having a Second Constitutional Convention or CON2. That article will have to wait at least another day, because my unexpected YouTube experience led me into a dark experience I must share with you.
By ‘experience’ I mean a descent into hell, a vision of corruption and evil that is all-pervasive and part of human nature, so that we get a picture of the world that has shaped our lives in our lifetimes no matter how young or old we may be.
I could write a book right now, but I’ll summarize as best I can, and keep it short. I urge you to read through the Wikipedia and YouTube references I will provide to get a reasonably full picture.
Let’s understand: We The (good) People had imagined that the unimaginable (Trump in the White House again) was behind us. We were thinking about a shiny future with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz running our country rather than the cabal of crooked corporate-republicans who have been creeping and crawling toward their dream of totalitarian power for many decades now; at least since Ronald Reagan’s 1980 accession to power.
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What started it all was when I stumbled on a 2019 film titled Where’s My Roy Cohn?
It’s allegedly a Donald Trump quote. It might almost be ‘where’s my con’ as in con artist.
The film is a nonfiction collage of footage (all true life) by director and reporter Matt Tyrnauer. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Tyrnauer
Please focus first on this link to read about Roy Cohn biographically:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn
Then check out this free film at YouTube, titled Where’s My Roy Cohn?, words allegedly uttered by Donald Trump during his 2016-2020 occupation of the White House when he was in deep trouble over his many unlawful activities. This is the film that got me started on this article. I bet if you’re like me, you’ll learn more from the sphere of filth surrounding this person than you imagined possible. Some of it we already knew, but the mind tends to cleanse itself of filth like this… but here we are, confronted with one of modern history’s most evil figures (Donald Trump) holding the nuclear football… or, as his predecessor in crime and shamelessness George W. Bush would say, ‘Nook-yoo-lar Football’ (another totally unqualified and amoral creature put in power through the long-term chiseling away by the Corporate Oligarchy at our democratic republic).
The film is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%27s_My_Roy_Cohn%3F
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Rather than write a book here, I’ll pick a few highlights that should resonate, but for the full treatment, read the Wikipedia article(s) and see the video(s).
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JOE McCARTHY: in the early 1950s, as Stalin’s Soviet Union had stolen our atomic secrets and terrified the Free World by beginning nuclear tests, a Republican Senator Joe McCarthy flipped the switch and became the dark messenger of a new Red Scare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy
That period, whose darkness continues to haunt us today, is best remembered as the paranoid, dark age of McCarthyism. He and his legal aide Cohn ruined the careers of many public figures including Hollywood actors and writers on phony allegations that they were Communists spying for Stalin. McCarthy looked for Communist spies throughout the State Department (the hated government loathed by village idiots everywhere, under manipulation from grinning corporate propaganda machinery like more recently Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Noise (the most popular dark entertainment channel in the USA, I’m sad to say, blotting out the statistics for even the top genuine news outlets).
Here is an image of Roy Cohn together with his young protege Donald Trump, from the following YouTube videa presented by Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Click on the image to see the YouTube video.
Roy Cohn, born in 1927, was by then already a successful lawyer in the dark fringes of the profession. He was involved in the notorious espionage trial of Ethel and Julius Roseberg, who were tried in 1951 for atomic espionage on behalf of Stalin’s regime, and executed in 1953. With the McCarthy paranoia at its height, Roy Cohn served as Chief Counsel on Joe McCarthy’s staff.
Cohn played a leading role in the paranoia surrounding the 1950s, when Stalin’s Soviet Union had already exploded the first of a series of test A-bombs (from secrets stolen from the U.S. with, yes, the help of some agents in our country). In fact, I explored a lot of background for my long, symphonic thriller novel Siberian Girl which takes place over a half century from the start of World War Two to the fall of the Soviet Union. The Venona Papers and other historical truths play a role in the underlying plot line of that novel.
ASIDE: See Amazon books by John T. Cullen at https://www.amazon.com/stores/John-T.-Cullen/author/B0034P8NDO?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
Please note that I have also written lots of books under the pen name John Argo as follows:
That’s not all but I’ll get back to the subject at hand. My plan has been (as an author, poet, publisher, editor, and Internet publishing pioneer of the 1990s onward) to tell the writers among you about my insights and experiences. I’m also active (sometimes) at Author’s Guild, occasionally contributing comments with other authors.
NOTE 1: I’ve had a lifelong interest in history (ancient, medieval, modern) which has led me to write some of these books. I’ve missed the boat on promotion and other factors. Wish I’d known long ago what I know today, but hey… I had a great time, a passionate time, writing about fifty books (so far; I’m not done). Those books and the research done for them will help inform my Substack articles. My longer books are sometimes complex and symphonic, as I call it; but no more so than the works of classic thriller writers like John LeCarré
NOTE 2: On a special website, Galley City (https://www.galleycity.com) I offer over a million words of free reading. I use what I call the Bookstore Model, or Read-a-Latte. It borrows from that fact that you can sit with your coffee (pun intended) in many bookstores and read for free all day long; but you have to pay for the book if you take it home. Similarly, the Bookstore Model introduces the concept of “read half free/try-buy.” Most bookseller websites offer short samples. I offer half the book, on the theory that if you’re still reading and still interested by halfway through, you’ll know whether you care enough to learn how it ends; and thus pay me, the author, the price of a cup of coffee for the typical e-book (like Amazon’s Kindle) at $2.99 on up. As I say, the latte purchased for that price stays on your lips for a few minutes, but a purchased copy of a novel becomes yours for life. END OF NOTES.
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I will close today with a few links of importance. If you follow the links from one person to another (Ronald Reagan; Roy Cohn; Rupert Murdoch; Joe McCarthy; and many more…) you will start feeling sick at how these key figures in our modern history all rubbed shoulders together.
Roy Cohn served as Donald Trump’s legal counsel (fixer, I’d say) from 1973 to 1985.
Also:
Sorry about the smaller size; Reagan is at left, Cohn is standing; Murdoch is one of the other two men in the picture (not sure which). Yes, that is the Rupert Murdoch who owns Fox Noise among many other U.S. and world media outlets.
In the Wikipedia article about Roy Cohn, note his early career association with notorious Mafia figures including John Gotti . I’ll paste the paragraph reference in that article here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn#Early_career and see especially the section titled Legal Career in New York, covering about 30 years. Clients included Mafiosi like Tony Salerno, Carmine Galante, John Gotti and Mario Gigante; yet also the Roman Catholic diocese of New York; and Harvard Law School Professor Allan Dershowitz, who has referenced Cohn as "the quintessential ‘fixer.’
By the time we are done following all the links, all the tracks that Roy Cohn’s sleazy life covered, it starts sounding like a Who’s Who in the Zoo. Other names that will pop up are President John F. Kennedy, his wife Jackie Kennedy, and Jackie’s later husband the billionaire Aristotle Onassis. He served as ‘an informal advisor’ to both Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. Cohn was a registered Democrat for many years but then switched to the (corporate) republican party.
As a final note of allegations floating around in that morass: There was a period around the same time as the McCarthy Era called the Lavender Scare.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_Scare
That was a period of profound paranoia regarding homosexual men (and women). Roy Cohn sided with the Archdiocese of New York (whose leader, Cardinal Spellman, was suspected of being an active homosexual under cover). Roy Cohn died relatively young, of AIDS, and there was sufficient rumor then to have us mention today that he may have been gay. I have nothing against gay people. I mention this entirely from the perspective that if these rumors are true, it gives a picture of the galactic size dishonesty in which figures like McCarthy, Cohn, and Spellman (may have) moved.
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FURTHER REFERENCES:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%27s_My_Roy_Cohn%3F “Where’s My Cohn?” a statement attributed to Donald Trump as his criminal network was unraveling (e.g., Michael Cohen, Roger Stone, and other fixers).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump# Donald Trump
There we are. I’m putting my ‘pen’ down and will avoid YouTube tonight for fear of being sucked into another super-storm like the Roy Cohn/Donald Trump galaxy of crooks and dangerous persons. So, worry all the more about such persons (not just Trump, but his handlers and associates) being in possession of all three branches of U.S. Government, plus the Nuclear Football.
Thanks for reading if you’re still on board! Sheep Heil!
Make America Real Again (MARA) JTC
Note: photos from Wikipedia all Fair Use and/or Public Domain.