All posts tagged "Roy Cohn"

An ex-Republican insider relied on a handy Star Wars analogy to name the "Sith Lord" who he said helped turn Trump into who he is today.

"Donald Trump was always going to be a sociopath," George Conway, the ex-husband of right-wing commentator Kellyanne Conway, said during an interview with Katie Couric.

"But Roy Cohn was like the sociopath teacher, right?" Conway went on. "He was the mentor, you know, kind of like the Sith Lord or the senior Sith Lord to the junior Sith Lord."...

In a new article for The Bulwark, conservative writer William Kristol hypothesized how Donald Trump's late attorney and fixer, Roy Cohn, has guided the president from beyond the grave and helped him tally a spate of achievements in the White House.

Of the "big, beautiful bill" that finally landed on his desk after months of posturing, Kristol imagined Trump thinking, "The key is the $170 billion for the internal police. I saw early on—maybe it was the ghost of Roy Cohn whispering in my ear—that 'mass deportation' was the path to seizing and consolidating power."

The hypothetical Trump continued, "So, yeah, the mass deportations have started, and they’re not going to stop. We do that for the next few years, keep the issue front and center—and meanwhile get ICE built up, and get people used to using the military at home. 'Boiling the frog slowly'—that’s another great expression Roy loved to use. I guess he invented it."...