When President Donald Trump’s first Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, recused himself from a federal investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, in 2017, the President was angry.

And Trump, when he met Roy Cohn, he began mimicing how he talked.” BBC Newsnight presenter Paddy O’Connell, speaks to author ...

American Scoundrel tells story of McCarthy attack dog, mob lawyer and Trump mentor – will the president be thumbing its pages?

Roy Cohn, who burst onto the national political scene in the 1950s by pursuing communists, first in the trial of Julius and ...

In Kai Bird's biography of Cohn, he looks at how the lawyer taught Trump how to deny, delay, attack, sue and countersue, never admit defeat, side-step paying bills and avoid a paper trail.

The foundational rule of modern political theater was not born in a campaign war room or a think tank. It was forged in the ...

For decades, Roy Cohn operated at the center of American power, from his work with Sen. Joseph McCarthy to his role as a lawyer, political fixer and mentor to a young Donald Trump. Biographer Kai Bird ...

Reincarnation has never been one of my core beliefs. Not until I read a gripping new book by noted biographer Kai Bird and his wife Susan Goldmark: “American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from ...

New magazine issues are rejuicing old stories on people who’ve gone. The New Yorker’s Aug. 10 edition has multiple pages on the late lawyer Roy Cohn once babysitting Donald Trump. I was at their ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Back when Donald Trump was getting his start as a real estate developer in his father's business, wanting to branch out from apartments in the burrows to more ...

Reincarnation has never been one of my core beliefs. Not until I read a gripping new book by noted biographer Kai Bird and his wife Susan Goldmark: "American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reincarnation has never been one of my core beliefs. Not until I read a gripping new book by noted biographer Kai Bird and his ...