Who really was Roy Cohn, the co-lead in the film The Apprentice by Ali Abbasi and a second father to Donald Trump? "A perverted role model, teaching [Trump] contempt for the law, unscrupulousness, greed, and the religion of the force and victory," wrote Jacques Mandelbaum on October 8, 2024, on the eve of the film's release in France.
The name of this inflammatory lawyer, who died almost 40 years ago, first appeared in Le Monde on January 1, 1953. He was then a 26-year-old man, a zealous assistant to attorney general James McGranery and close to senator Joseph McCarthy. Deeply involved in the witch-hunt, anti-communist and homophobic, he was instrumental in the death sentence handed down to the Rosenbergs, who were accused of espionage.
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