The New Yorker
In 1973, when Donald Trump was not yet 30, and an ambitious outer-borough real-estate developer, he met Roy Cohn. Among the lessons the future President would learn from the ruthless lawyer: the facts could always be drowned out by strident counterclaims, the pyrotechnics of publicity were more important than the law, one should always avoid a paper trail. “Roy, I think, really felt this sort of pride of ownership in Trump,” one of Cohn’s relatives said. “He’d created Trump. He had saved Trump from ruin after they met. And he felt this odd attraction to him until the end.” Read an excerpt from Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark’s new biography of the man who taught Trump everything: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/uiBQMr
