‘The Apprentice’: Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, and the Pursuit of Power

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🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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A new film shows how Donald Trump developed his political playbook from attorney Roy Cohn.

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0:00.0	This is on the media's midweek podcast. I'm Brooke Gladstone. The new film The
0:06.8	Apprentice takes us back to New York in the 1970s to when Donald Trump, played by Sebastian Stan, was just starting to make a name for himself.
0:17.0	And when he was introduced to Roy Cohn, the ruthless attorney and political fixer.
0:23.0	What's your name, handsome?
0:24.0	I'm Donald Trump.
0:25.0	Donald Trump, nice to meet you.
0:27.0	Roy Cohn.
0:28.0	The Roy Cohn from all the papers and everything.
0:30.0	That's right, the Roy Cohn from all the papers, that's right.
0:33.0	Right.
0:34.0	Yeah, you're brutal. I'm brutal.
0:35.0	That's right.
0:36.0	He's a guy and put the Rosenbergs in the chair.
0:38.0	Guilty as charged.
0:40.0	But whatever I do, I do it for America.
0:43.0	Cone, played by Jeremy Strong, was infamous for investigating suspected communists along with Senator
0:49.6	Joseph McCarthy and for securing the conviction and execution of both Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
0:57.1	in the 1950s. depiction of real events shows Cohn molding Trump into his protégé, imparting his
1:06.3	political lessons on how to wield political power, to manipulate the media and to
1:11.8	bend the truth.
1:13.8	Now the apprentice faced some big hurdles procuring financing and distributors and legal
1:19.5	threats from the Trump team too, but it finally opened in theaters in the United States on October 11th,
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