In the THIRD PART of the special Court of History series on Donald Trump’s malevolent mentor Roy Cohn, Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Kai Bird, author of “American Scounrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey,” about how the disgraced counsel to Joe McCarthy returns to New York City to become its king, the center of celebrity, tabloid journalism and the Mafia, the friend of William F. Buckley and Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, takes on Roger Stone as a protege, works for all the Five Families of the Mob, escapes the law, preys upon young men as a closeted homosexual, lies, steals and cheats his way to the top, and meets Donald Trump, who was his apprentice.

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Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Maggie Haberman, White House correspondent for the New York Times, on her new book, “Regime Change,” how Trump plays JD Vance, Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth off against each other, why Vance might not run, Trump’s belief that he is above the law and nothing can ever touch him, inside the secret Jared Kushner-Hakim Jeffries meeting, and what Trump plans to interfere with the midterm elections. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join Become a member of the Legal AF Substack: https://michaelpopok.substack.com/20off Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/legalafmtn.bsky.social Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mspopok.bsky.social Subscribe to the Legal AF podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch/id1580828595 Subscribe to the Intersection with Michael Popok podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intersection-with-michael-popok/id1818863274 Subscribe to Unprecedented with Michael Popok and Dina Doll podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unprecedented-by-legal-af/id1867023089 Subscribe to Court of History with Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-court-of-history/id1867022920