BY MARIE BRENNER | Vanity Fair
AUGUST 2017
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/donald-trump-roy-cohn-relationship
In 1973, a brash young would-be developer from Queens met one of New York’s premier power brokers: Roy Cohn, whose name is still synonymous with the rise of McCarthyism and its dark political arts. With the ruthless attorney as a guide, Trump propelled himself into the city’s power circles and learned many of the tactics that would inexplicably lead him to the White House years later.