Moira Donegan

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434 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 24 Jul

Moira Donegan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Or you've never heard of him ever.
You know, it's like it could go either way.
think that's a really great way to frame it.
The simple way to talk about what Roy Cohn did was to say that he was a lawyer, right?
But saying that Roy Cohn was a lawyer is a little like saying that the Pope is a Catholic.
It's like, well, yes.
However, it goes well beyond that.
Yeah, Roy Cohn began his career as a very young prosecutor.
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gunning to kill Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple who were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union.
And, you know, we look at Lindsey Graham, who is famous for being a war hawk who really came into his own as a neoconservative, like military interventionist during the war on terror era.
Roy Cohn was an anti-communist agitator.
and persecutor of people on the political left from the Cold War era, right?
So after he made his name securing the electric chair for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, including some really egregious misconduct and subsequent revelations have suggested that he actually knew that Ethel was innocent of everything he was accusing her of or much of what he was accusing her of and made sure that she got the death penalty anyway.
Nasty guy.
He goes on to work for Joseph,
McCarthy, a senator on an anti
communist mission.
Also, by the way, a widely alleged closeted homosexual.
So he becomes the architect of the MacArthur hearings, dragging people in front of the Senate committee to interrogate them about their alleged communist sympathies.
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