The Apprentice: The Roy Cohn Playbook
Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation
4.8 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Attack! Attack! Attack! Deny! Deny! Deny! Before Russia and Roger Ailes, Trump rose to power with the help of mega-lawyer and mega-villain Roy Cohn. That playbook is on full display in Trump’s cabinet picks—a confederacy of lawless kleptocrats. Roy Cohn would be beaming with pride.
Gabriel Sherman, the investigative journalist and screenwriter, joins Gaslit Nation. Sherman is the writer and executive producer of the new true-crime American horror story, The Apprentice, starring Jeremy Strong as Cohn, Sebastian Stan as Trump, and Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump, directed by Ali Abbasi. When the film was released just before the election, Trump attacked Sherman, inciting a wave of anti-Semitic harassment. Trump’s goon squad of lawyers failed to stop the film's release, despite their best efforts. They did manage to scare away all but the most morally courageous film distributors. The Apprentice chillingly brings to life Cohn’s twisted mentorship of Trump. Our conversation with Sherman took place shortly before the 2024 election and remains an urgent reminder of what we’re up against. The good news is that we can apply the same defiant strategy against Cohn’s devil apprentice.
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Show Notes:
The featured song for November 2024 is “2 Red Cups” by Evrette Allen. Check out her work here! Submit your own music to be featured on Gaslit Nation! We’d love to hear from you!: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-d_DWNnDQFYUMXueYcX5ZVsA5t2RN09N8PYUQQ8koq0/edit?ts=5fee07f6&gxids=7628
The Apprentice (Trailer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvPRxy9kmSg
The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--And Divided a Country https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-loudest-voice-in-the-room-how-the-brilliant-bombastic-roger-ailes-built-fox-news-and-divided-a-country-gabriel-sherman/11736897?ean=9780812982732
Computer Scientists: Breaches of Voting System Software Warrant Recounts to Ensure Election Verification https://freespeechforpeople.org/computer-scientists-breaches-of-voting-system-software-warrant-recounts-to-ensure-election-verification/
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| 0:00.0 | Dangerous Beauty like a cat on a beam. |
| 0:15.0 | He drank Italian coffee with French whipped cream He says reality baby is not what it seems |
| 0:26.6 | You could wind up living somebody else's dreams |
| 0:32.6 | Wrong, he had one brown bottle, two red cups He said girl I gotta leave so you best drink up |
| 0:43.3 | One more round until enough is enough |
| 0:48.3 | Don't blame me you can't help me love |
| 0:59.0 | He's so straight he keeps his girls in line The big one's black and the little one is nice |
| 1:05.0 | There's no morality baby just do what you feel |
| 1:18.6 | Because this life's fate, but the next one is a real long Yeah, one brown bottle, two red cups |
| 1:21.6 | You said girl that gotta leave so you best drink up |
| 1:30.3 | One more round until enough is enough and don't blame me can't help in love Our opening song was Two Red Cups by the singing angel that is Everett Allen. |
| 1:52.0 | It was submitted by her label, Atomic Sound Record Company, with this creative statement. |
| 1:57.0 | This song is about a conversation with a little bit of inspiration, which is provided |
| 2:01.9 | by some brown juice, as they say in the South. We will link to Everett Allen's social media in the show |
| 2:07.5 | notes so you can discover more of her haunting music. Welcome to Gaslit Nation. I am your host, |
| 2:13.2 | Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller, |
| 2:19.5 | Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine. The film The Kremlin does not want you to see, |
| 2:26.3 | so be sure to watch it. Because in this time of disinformation, Mr. Jones reminds us there is only one |
| 2:34.1 | truth. Everything else is just an opinion, |
| 2:36.6 | a belief. There's only one truth. A fact is a fact. Truth is truth. And we stand in our truth to |
| 2:41.4 | protect us in this moment that we are in. To help an extraordinary investigative journalist who has |
| 2:46.6 | fought for the truth for years and is out with a film that he wrote that earned him |
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