President Trump Called For Roy Cohn, But Roy Cohn Was Gone
This past week brought a series of stunning reports about President Trump and his White House, reports some Americans found hard to believe. But one quote attributed to the president should have surprised no one: the one in The New York Times where the president asked, "Where's my Roy Cohn?"
In a moment of crisis, the president cried out for the man from Trump's past whom the Times described as his "personal lawyer and fixer." Far more than that, Cohn was a legendary and controversial attorney who pushed legal tactics to the limits for a dazzling array of clients â from senators to mobsters and high rollers in sports and entertainment.
Cohn was periodically in legal trouble himself and was disbarred in New York just weeks before he died in 1986. But his
