Buried Treasure: "The Roy Cohn - Donald Trump playbook"

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Director and Documentary Filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer joins Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on Skullduggery's "Buried Treasure." They discuss his new film - "Where's My Roy Cohn?" - in great detail. Trump, alongside others like Roger Stone, were Cohn protégés. And Trump's playbook is straight out of Roy Cohn's. So much that the president uttered the title of Tyrnauer's film back in January of 2018.

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0:00.0	I'm Michael Isgov, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.
0:03.0	And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.
0:05.3	And a quick reminder that you can follow us at SkullDuggeryPod.
0:09.9	And by the way, if you've got any questions, thoughts, ideas you want to share,
0:14.1	tweet right at us. Now let's get on with the show.
0:19.6	The Justice Department was going after Fred Trump and Donald Trump for not letting blacks
0:24.8	in their housing rather than making a deal rather than admitting guilt.
0:29.9	Roy said to Trump, you need to go full-bore after the Justice Department.
0:34.4	Roy Cohn was very clear what to do.
0:36.7	Attack. Don't settle. Don't apologize. Attack.
0:41.6	Roy would always be for an offensive strategy.
0:44.9	Those are the rules of war. You don't fight on the other guy's ground.
0:48.7	You define what the debate is going to be about.
0:51.5	I think Donald learned that from Roy. I learned that from Roy.
0:57.2	Those are excerpts from a fascinating new documentary.
1:00.4	Where's my Roy Cohn? A film that tells a lot about the state of American politics in 2019.
1:07.2	It explores the life and tumultuous times of one of the most divisive and to many repellent
1:12.5	figures of the post-war war II era. Roy Cohn was the Chief Counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy
1:19.1	during the anti-communist witch hunts of the 1950s. He later became one of the most powerful and
1:24.9	fear lawyers in New York. The consigliare to mafia bosses and crooked pauls of all stripes.
1:31.7	But from today's perspective he is best remembered for something else.
1:35.6	He was for years the attorney and mentor to an up-and-coming real estate developer named Donald Trump.
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