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

Behind the Bastards

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Roy Cone - I'm Not All the Same Even Though We're Rich

Roy's parents marriage is generally described as loveless. When Roy was 10, his father introduced him to his first president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He started giving speeches at political rallies the year before, when he was nine. As soon as he met FDR, he told the president he agreed with his plan to pack the Supreme Court. The family had been absolutely shamed when Bernard Marcus went to prison.

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