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

Behind the Bastards

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Roy Cohn and the Red Scare

The panic over gay people and gay people being, you know, communist infiltrators came at a great time for Joe McCarthy. The panic this like the lavender scare started when it started to become clear that old tail gunner Joe had no proof that any of the 205 names on that list were actually communists. One of the men then sneered, how do you like having sex with women? You've never had it good until you've had it from a man, tormented into silence following the interrogation.

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