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Part One: Roy Cohn: The Man Who Made Donald Trump

Behind the Bastards

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Should I Execute Ethel and Roy Cohn?

Normally the prosecutor is not supposed to have any say in the punishment. But Cohn would wind up having a strong say in her punishment. He later claimed, number one, that he had pulled strings to make sure Kaufman was the judge who got the case. There's no evidence that this was true, except for the fact that Kaufman called Roy Cohn repeatedly when he had questions about the case.

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