Terry Gross
speaker
23,121 appearances
397 recordings
17 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 2d ago
Terry Gross’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So after Joe McCarthy was pressured to fire
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Roy Cohn.
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When Roy Cohn was the legal counsel for McCarthy's
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subcommittee that was
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Really active in the witch hunt against alleged communists.
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Um Roy Cohn then went on to do other things.
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He became a divorce lawyer for very wealthy people, and he represented leaders of the five Mafia families of New York.
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What kind of cases did he take?
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How did the relationship between uh Donald Trump and Roy Cohn change as Trump became more famous and more powerful?
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Roy Cohn got AIDS early in the AIDS epidemic.
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Yes.
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So how did that change uh Donald Trump's relationship with Roy Cohn?
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Well let me reintroduce you again.
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If you're just joining us, my guest is Kai Byrd, author of the new book American Scoundrel, Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump.
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We'll be right back.
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This is Fresh Air.
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This is fresh air.
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Let's get back to my interview with Kai Byrd, author of the new book American Scoundrel, Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump.
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Cohn was Donald Trump's lawyer and mentor.
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Because one of Roy Cohn's rules was like don't leave a paper trail he didn't leave a paper trail.
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