Well yeah, Trump was a democrat who routinely mingled with black folks, gay folks, etc....and nobody cared.
Then he ran for President as a republican and instantly turned into a misogynistic racist homophobe.
There is no way to know what Trump did, does or thinks aside from what he says and posts on social media. The point is Roy Cohn was his attorney, friend and possibly his mentor. How Trump acts and what he does today coincidentally mirrors the actions of Roy Cohn. Roy Cohn was not an honest person or good person.
"What Cohn could, and did, get away with was the very engine of his existence. The infamous chief counsel for the red-baiting, Joseph McCarthy-chaired Senate subcommittee in the 1950s, Cohn was indicted four times from the mid-’60s to the early ’70s—for stock-swindling and obstructing justice and perjury and bribery and conspiracy and extortion and blackmail and filing false reports. And three times he was acquitted—the fourth ended in a mistrial—giving him a kind of sneering, sinister sheen of invulnerability.
Cohn did not, in the end, elude the consequences of his actions. He could not, it turned out, get away with everything forever. He was a braggart of a tax cheat, and the Internal Revenue Service closed in; he was an incorrigibly unethical attorney, and he finally was disbarred; and only six weeks after that professional disgrace, six months shy of 60 years old, Cohn was dead of AIDS.
"He (Cohn) was a prototypical Teflon man,” Zirin writes in his book. “The more unscrupulous he became, the more his law practice grew. He was the man to see if you wanted to beat the system.”
What Zirin wrote has a familiar note to it. Interesting.
Trump 'unfriended' Roy Cohn when he became useless to him and after finding out he was HIV positive and dying of AIDS.
Like the old Spanish proverb says, ‘tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are.’ This is so true.