Everything you need to know about Donald Trump’s political tactics of lying, exaggeration, truculence, insults, attacks and media manipulation can be found by reading the life story of Roy Cohn, Trump’s 20-year friend and mentor, a stylish yet vile and vindictive man who lead the witch hunt for Communists in the 1950s, and later became a NY City power broker and mob lawyer.

We begin with a quick Roy Cohn tutorial. In 1978, Esquire Magazine called him “the toughest, meanest, vilest lawyer in America.” A title that is now held by… ALL the lawyers in America.

Cohn got his start in 1951 by successfully leading the prosecution that convicted The Rosenberg of giving US nuclear secrets to the Russians.

Cohn became the chief hatchet man and legal counselor to Senator McCarthy who zealously investigated alleged communist sympathizers in the US...

Cohn later joins a New York Law Firm and quickly built on his reputation as a pugnacious litigator. His 20 year friendship with Donald Trump began in 1973 after the Justice Department accused Trump and his father of discrimination against blacks when renting apartments.

Trump hires Cohn, and it’s at this point Cohn teaches Trump his first political lesson: Attack. Counter Attack and Never Apologize!

Cohn’s defense scheme was to file a 100-million dollar countersuit calling the discrimination charges against the Trumps “irresponsible and baseless.” He also insisted the office of the Jewish prosecutor was engaging in Nazi Gestapo tactics… AND that on Hogan’s Heroes, the prosecutor was rooting for Col. Klink.

Two years later, the case settled and Trump was forced to place ads in newspapers that said his apartments welcomed black tenants… and that he would be available in the evenings from 9 to 11 if prostitutes wanted to pee on him. Trump’s counter suit was tossed by the judge, who called it: “the biggest waste of paper until your Muslim ban in 2017.”

The settlement included the stipulation that Trump does NOT admit to any wrong doing, even if some day he’s accused of coordinating with Russia to rig a presidential election.

“Attack” isn’t the only lesson Trump learned from Cohn. He also learned all publicity is good. Roy Cohn used to feed stories about himself to the media… a trick Trump doubled down on in the 80s - pretending to be his own publicist …

In his autobiography, Roy Cohn says ‘what you say can have nothing to do with what you believe.’ Trump has a tramp stamp of that quote on his lower back. It’s also now written on our money instead of E Pluribus Unum.

Roy Cohn was notorious for cheating people out of money he owed. He knew creditors would never sue because a lawyer would cost more than the debt. The USA Today reports 235 contractors who helped build Trump’s taj mahal casino were never paid, not paid in full or were paid so late they had to file grievances with the state labor commission. Do you have any idea how pissed off a fat lazy mob connected NJ union construction worker has to be to go down to Trenton, wait in line, and fill out paperwork in tripilicate?

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Jon Hotchkiss is a 14 time Emmy nominee and host of the series, Be Less Stupid, which is available for free on the streaming service, http://factbox.tv