A new film debuting at Cannes charts Roy Cohn’s outsized influences on America and the 45th president, writes Sheila Flynn. Decades before Trump erected his Tower, ...

Roy Cohn, Polarizing Lawyer For Everyone From Senator Joseph McCarthy To Donald Trump, ... Later, Cohn served as McCarthy’s chief counsel during the senator’s Communist witch-hunts.

And that day, he decided to make a film about Roy Cohn, a lawyer best known as Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel during the Army-McCarthy hearings. Many know about Cohn’s influence on politics ...

“Roy Cohn would have been a bold footnote to American history except for the election of Donald Trump in 2016,” says Tyrnauer when he visited Deadline’s Sundance Studio.

Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, Joe McCarthy and the dark history of the president's war cry Every Trump counterattack against Mueller he learned from Roy Cohn, aide to the great witch hunter of the 1950s .

The door opened to admit Roy Cohn, 27, the chief counsel of McCarthy’s Permanent Senate Subcommittee on Investigations. A few moments later, Cohn emerged with McCarthy, ...

A new film charts Roy Cohn’s outsized influences on America and the 45th president, writes Sheila Flynn. Decades before Trump erected his Tower, an insidiously well-connected New York power-player was ...

MCCARTHY by Roy Cohn. 292 pages. New American Library. $5.95. In the fantastic days of the Army-McCarthy hearings, they would sit head-to-head in the Senate caucus room, the brooding, heavy-browed ...

Cohn ruthlessly took charge of McCarthy's Senate work (McCarthy himself did little work besides orating as he struggled with a desperate alcohol addiction), earning great power in the process.

Like many in this country, the day after the 2016 election, filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer was shocked to learn that Donald Trump had won the presidency. And that day, he decided to make a film about Roy ...

“Donald Trump is Roy Cohn,” Matthew Tyrnauer, director of the 2019 documentary Where’s My Roy Cohn, said in an interview with NPR the year of his film’s release. “He completely absorbed all of the ...