WAS ROY COHN THE CREATOR OF THE TRUMP MONSTER?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Documentary filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer describes his new release "Where's My Roy Cohn?" The story of the notorious lawyer who coached demagogues from Joseph McCarthy to Donald J. Trump. Thom continues his live Labor event from Chicago with the local union leaders and questions from the attending audience.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm here with you. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm here with you and I believe that we have met Tearnower on the line. |
| 0:16.0 | Matt is the director of Where's My Roy Cohn, which is an extraordinary new movie that Louise and I watched a preview of earlier in the week and |
| 0:24.9 | was just mind-boggling. |
| 0:27.1 | Matt, give us a summary of this movie. |
| 0:29.1 | Roy Cohn is the link between Joseph McCarthy and Donald Trump. He was a very, very |
| 0:36.9 | influential power broker and one of the great kind of dark schemers and sort of bobbed up power figures of mid-century. |
| 0:49.0 | And how has Donald Trump been informed by his association with Roy Cohn? |
| 0:55.2 | He is the fully the creation of Roy Cohn. |
| 0:59.9 | They met in the 70s and con mentored Trump and I think people who I interviewed who knew |
| 1:07.4 | them at the time said that Donald Trump is Roy Cohn basically. |
| 1:11.6 | Wow. So when is the movie coming out and where is the movie coming out? How can people find it? |
| 1:16.0 | The movie is came out last week. It's in theaters and it's going across the country right now. |
| 1:22.0 | So check your local listings? |
| 1:23.7 | Absolutely. |
| 1:24.8 | Do you have a website for it? |
| 1:26.5 | Roycone movie. |
| 1:28.0 | Rightcone and that's cohen |
| 1:30.6 | Roy cone movie. |
| 1:32.3 | Thank you very much for that. And Matt, as I mentioned, |
| 1:36.0 | Louise and I watched the movie and first of all it's a mind-boggling biography of |
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