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In the SECOND part of a special four part series on Donald Trump’s malevolent mentor Roy Cohn, Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Kai Bird, author of “American Scounrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey,” reveal his early mafia links, exploitation of tabloid columnists, how he became Senator Joseph McCarthy’s special counsel, drove the Red Scare and the Lavender Scare against gays, even though he was a closeted homosexual, his fights with Robert F. Kennedy, his attempt to overthrow President Eisenhower to replace him with McCarthy, the televised Army-McCarthy hearings, where Cohn perjured himself, the censure of McCarthy, and how, according to Kai Bird, Cohn’s greed killed McCarthy. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join Become a member of the Legal AF Substack: https://michaelpopok.substack.com/20off Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/legalafmtn.bsky.social Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mspopok.bsky.social Subscribe to the Legal AF podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch/id1580828595 Subscribe to the Intersection with Michael Popok podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intersection-with-michael-popok/id1818863274 Subscribe to Unprecedented with Michael Popok and Dina Doll podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unprecedented-by-legal-af/id1867023089 Subscribe to Court of History with Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-court-of-history/id1867022920