{"id":26147,"date":"2019-09-25T07:50:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T12:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=26147"},"modified":"2019-09-25T07:50:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T12:50:37","slug":"a-disturbing-insight-if-you-trust-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/09\/25\/a-disturbing-insight-if-you-trust-it\/","title":{"rendered":"A Disturbing Insight, If You Trust It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Normally, I’d write off this piece<\/a> in Politico<\/strong><\/em> as a literary hit job, because equating one person, living, with another person, dead and universally considered despicable, is usually a dubious effort, rank with malicious intent.<\/p>\n

But the well-documented mendacity and unrestrained habits of Donald J. Trump makes this one of those pieces which might actually be unsettlingly accurate. It makes my stomach churn to think so, but it’s a plausible assertion. The piece concerns the late lawyer Roy Cohn:<\/p>\n

One of Donald Trump\u2019s most important mentors, one of the most reviled men in American political history, is about to have another moment.<\/p>\n

Roy Cohn<\/a>, who has been described by people who knew him as \u201ca snake<\/a>,\u201d \u201ca scoundrel<\/a>\u201d and \u201ca new strain of son of a bitch<\/a>,\u201d is the subject of a new\u00a0documentary<\/a>\u00a0out this week from producer and director\u00a0Matt Tyrnauer<\/a>. It\u2019s an occasion to once again look at Cohn and ask how much of him and his \u201csavage<\/a>,\u201d \u201cabrasive<\/a>\u201d and \u201camoral<\/a>\u201d behavior is visible in the behavior of the current president. Trump, as\u00a0has<\/a>\u00a0been<\/a>\u00a0well<\/a>–established<\/a>, learned so much from the truculent, unrepentant Cohn about how to get what he wants, and he pines for Cohn and his notorious capabilities still. Trump, after all,\u00a0reportedly<\/a>\u00a0has said so himself, and it\u2019s now the name of this film: \u201cWhere\u2019s My Roy Cohn?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Roy Cohn was a psychopath who believed rules were for suckers<\/em> is what I glean from the piece, and that certainly seems to apply to Donald J. Trump. But go read it yourself, or see the movie (I have not). Me quoting it piecemeal isn’t half as much fun as the entire piece.<\/p>\n

But keep a sink nearby. Or a bucket. That someone mentored by Cohn, if indeed he did, is the President makes the blood run cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Normally, I’d write off this piece in Politico as a literary hit job, because equating one person, living, with another person, dead and universally considered despicable, is usually a dubious effort, rank with malicious intent. But the well-documented mendacity and unrestrained habits of Donald J. Trump makes this one of \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26149,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26147\/revisions\/26149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}