“Where’s My Roy Cohn?”: Film Explores How Joseph McCarthy’s Ex-Aide Mentored Trump & Roger Stone

democracynow.org - Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone, who was arrested on Friday, and Donald Trump share a unique history: Both were heavily influenced by the infamous attorney Roy Cohn, who served as a chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare in the 1950s and would later become a leading mob attorney. Cohn represented Trump for years and once claimed he considered Trump to be his best friend. Cohn is the subject of a new documentary at the Sundance Film Festival titled “Where’s My Roy Cohn?” We speak to the film’s director, Matt Tyrnauer.
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[@DistractedDaisy]

Absolutely mind blowing. What tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.

[@BKMcl]

There were two important men in Trump's life, his father and Roy Cohn. I appreciate hearing someone else made a movie about it. Great interview and thank you.

[@queenslander954]

Yea right mate , what rock would they have to have uncover to find a actor to crawl out of that’s as bad as Trump.. what’s wrong mate , the ferking horror movie for the last 6 years not enough for you.

[@rcpilot179]

@@queenslander954 I heard it was James Woods. What a disgusting mess. He was Trumps best friend? A mob lawyer and former imagined communist prosecutor. I believe that this is where Trumps ability to lie was magnified. The constant need to proclaim victory, contradictory to reality and ethics. He lost so many cases. Never admitting defeat. As a slumlord Trump had over 2,900 cases involving racial discrimination, systemic unsafe housing issues, and everything else that might pertain to being a slumlord.

[@ragauerk9310]

"Important men in tRumps life," writings on the wall, screwed over both of them, that's the nature of 'importance' to him. And our America's just the current b*tch he's grabbing by the p*ssy and cheating on, selling her national security out to putin and the Saudis and you're enamored by that. May you all get the same just desserts.

[@AdrianBailey-td4nm]

Yes but there is much much more about Roy Cohn.

[@joyceduhaine2744]

That was a really damned interesting piece, DN. Another stellar piece of journalism that’ll never be mentioned on cable news.

[@judithbosch547]

We get this show every night at 7 our time on FNX (First Nations Experience PBS channel 4 station) - maybe a person doesn't get it on cable - we ditched cable almost 3 years ago and use antenna so I'm not sure about cable but my cousin in Minn. by Fargo gets that station also and I think she has cable. This is great news program.

[@judithbosch547]

I certainly remember the McCarthy era - he was crazy and Bobby Kennedy laid into him .

[@gobstopper9t690]

i ain't good at cabinetry

[@DistractedDaisy]

share, share, share!

[@joyceduhaine2744]

Pati Pena : 😁

[@sherylcrowe3255]

Fantastic interview! Can't wait to see the doc!

[@marksmirter6255]

I just did at Sundance PM me and I can send you the Q & A --- wasn't allowed to film the movie of of course

[@dr.trixiecp5651]

The one constant here is: THE MOB! The Whitehouse is just another MOB endeavour!

[@65minimom]

Dr. Trixie CP Trump has been involved with Mafia since NYC & Atlantic City, nobody get a casino in AC without mob. Also, Russian connection to Trump family is Russian mob dates back again to NYC. Watch David Cay Johnston.

[@patricialongo5746]

One might argue that the USA has been just a mob action to anger & torture the Persian empire and its values.

[@mourningwarbler]

Reminds me of those old cowboy movies! Stir everyone up with a bunch of lies and have a good lynching! No need to research... lynch first, research later!

[@realisticreality7705]

@@mourningwarbler WELL SAID!

[@MOTHATALKS]

Are u Jewish

[@theecocatlady7605]

More proof that insecurity and self-loathing truly are the roots of all evil.

[@subversivelysurreal3645]

The EcoCatLady : Yes! Yet the AMA, APA, and Doctors and ( USA Phycologists VOLUNTEERED to ‘ Help Torture ‘ People!! They NEVER looked at ‘Greed’, not once!

[@60sMark909]

@@subversivelysurreal3645 Phycology Phycology is the scientific study of algae. Also known as algology, phycology is a branch of life science and often is regarded as a subdiscipline of botany.- Slime, surely, does run/ruin our country.

[@duncelleperucho6682]

Actually, it most likely is pride mascaraed as "insecurity & self-loathing". Pride is actually the root of evil.

[@aliciasciascia9227]

Self loathing? Try public shaming, and you'll be closer to the truth. It's funny, because this piece appears to still be trying to shame him for struggling his sexuality and his death from aids.

[@merbst]

The Simpsons covered Roy Cohn well: "And that unpopular, hateful child grew up to be … Roy Cohn.

[@joehellno9097]

Cannot overemphasize how impressive Matt Tyrnauer’s commentary on his film in this clip was. He speaks like a writer. A GOOD writer. Unhesitatingly, thoughtfully, and accessing a range of vocabulary that not only expresses his own mind, but the depth of his analysis of the subject at hand. Not a bad voice either. I’ll be keeping an eye out and searching for more Matt. Of course, have had and will always have ultimate respect and warm newsy feelings for Amy Goodman!

[@subversivelysurreal3645]

I had the same impression.Somewhat disappointed by the film, it was all of what I already knew-and how excellent Matt Tymaur’s aptitude as an excellent communicator. Thus-I ABSOLUTELY want to keep my eyes open, re. anything that Tymaur directs in any genre, from here into the future.

[@Wacoal34d]

Why does the interviewer insist on calling Cohn "Cohen"?

[@chetdeter5137]

The interviewer apparently has never heard of Roy Cohn, since she insists on calling him "Cohen"

[@Steevee14]

She didn't really "insist"; she merely kept repeating her unknowing mispronunciation, and no one corrected her.

[@grayforester]

AMY! ONE SYLLABLE! Cohn. Rhymes with cone. Your error was on repeat!

[@BuckyBrown-lt4ry]

This guy is an excellent guest and speaker. Very impressed.

[@Headington_Oxford]

United States of Amnesia, indeed! Brilliant coverage.

[@curiousworld7912]

Excellent segment. I look forward to seeing the documentary.

[@Zeldarw104]

Ikr!!👍🏾

[@richardkerr6091]

You left part out were I was taking to him in Hotel in Venice

[@joelkavanagh1464]

what i find so tragic is people like cohn cohen and yes trump getting back at socieiy at large for not allowing a honest relection and experience of their sexuality w. reich would h abe had much to say to that

[@subversivelysurreal3645]

Curious World :Amy Goodman is so excellent at speaking to people (live!) the more I listen to everyone else, the more I want them to direct the conversation by simply stating, ‘Talk about that.’ She’s simply the best. ✌🏾

[@curiousworld7912]

@@subversivelysurreal3645 I tend to agree. She is really very good at her job. :)

[@majkus]

The Simpsons, parodying Paul Harvey, gave us the memorable line, "…and that little boy. Who nobody liked. Grew up to be… Roy Cohn! And now you know, the rest of the story."

[@theblackswanx361]

Thank you once again DN for a great post, and for keeping us informed ;)

[@edwardb7811]

This documentary tells you everything you need to know about Trump, Stone, and Cohn.

[@thorgt8197]

But let’s sweep under the rug all the nasty corruption by you slimy Marxists masquerading as Americans

[@joesantos2455]

Say Cohen ONE MORE TIME LADY! AAAAAH!!

[@harrydamour7564]

It bums me out to be American. ☹

[@harrydamour7564]

@Sir Alfred Lawrence kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZWygXWGbtuokKM

[@Robert_McGarry_Poems]

@Sir Alfred Lawrence Where do you live, I want to come and visit.

[@harrydamour7564]

@Sir Alfred Lawrence left or right doesn't matter. There's only Zionist or anti-Zionist

[@susanray4059]

@Sir Alfred Lawrence Anyone that's a full on, (but unknowing aka stupid) Trump supporter they're in for such a YUGE surprise when the new crew, "The Deep State" Stands Up and Takes A Bow. Many ppl will so regret NOT moving out of the USA. Hard to imagine Sir Alfred, that it just might be worse here in the USA in many different ways in the Land Of The formerly FREE And The BRAVE. Get out those beggin' bowls and dust them off and *IF* you play those cards right you just might not loose your head. lol lol Those 2 Nations you mentioned just might look like paradise in comparison. Laugh now if you must .... lol lol

[@65minimom]

Harry, me, too! I'm 74, not naive but our country is more corrupt than I could conceive - buy a yellow vest!

[@empirei8513]

Roy was Reagan’s lawyer, how surprising lol

[@corryjookit7818]

Eric Trump's words in 2023 in a New York Courtroom a few weeks ago, earn themselves a rather unique place in this Film.. Whereas Donald Trump used poured concrete to build Trump Tower in the 1980's, a material that was going out of favour back then, due in part to its association with the MOB. In 2023, in New York, his son Eric declared his job to be that of someone wĥo poured Concrete. " Ì just poured Concrete". What will the Judge make of thàt remains to be seen.

[@alwaysincentivestrumpethic6689]

Good piece

[@Billsbob]

“The walls are closi- falling down?” Damn I love video that preserves faulty thinking forever.

[@s1nc1ty58]

Evil needs to stop being repeated!

[@markmaxner4060]

A Great interview. TY for this. Cohn also swindled his family out of the Lionel Train business; running the company into the ground causing bankruptcy almost resulting it to be dismantled.

[@chokinonashes61]

Thank you Amy, great interview.

[@andreadaerice]

Very enlightening...lots of stuff I never knew. I look forward to see the complete film.

[@metalinl-a1128]

There's a Mini Series that was on HBO back in 2003-4ish. Al Pacino played R. Cohn. It was called " Angel's In America"

[@billdunne5266]

again Amy great story,thanks

[@miamidolphinsfan]

Amy - it's said like CONE, not COHEN.

[@MsColl90]

Kevin Clements Kevin - it doesn’t matter.

[@helenpatterson3858]

@@MsColl90 Okay... can we pronounce your name 0'Kayfee ?

[@openmind763]

They are all conman either way.

[@patrickfoster4586]

@@helenpatterson3858 I doubt Mr. O'Keefe changed his name to distance himself from his Irish ancestry.

[@patrickfoster4586]

It's the same name, Cohn and Cohen. There are no vowels in original Hebrew.

[@dwmorris67]

Absolutely going to catch this doc in full.

[@MugRuith]

Excellent interview. Looking forward to the documentary.

[@emotionalinvalid]

"Have you know decency left[Joe McCarthy] " I will never forget those words from the defense attorney against McCarthy

[@mpicewe3023]

Welch

[@Steevee14]

Good comment, but I think you meant NO (not "know") decency. You should have proof read your comment, and should familiarize yourself with the "edit" feature of KZbin comments.

[@Rocketjay12]

Cohn! Cohn! Cohn! NOT Cohen!

[@itkapatanka]

I'm surprised that Mr. Tyrnauer doesn't correct Goodman on the correct pronunciation of Cohn, what's the matter with her? Many people listen to 'Democracy Now!' on radio and if they didn't know they'd be looking for the wrong information.

[@cydppalley2644]

Excellent interview. Looking forward to watching the movie! Shithole is the Reincarnation of evil!

[@nikkarter5578]

Matt you’re the man !

[@sharongillesp]

Gosh! Just when the film's director was about to explain tRump's MO for every thing he does Amy had (?) to interrupt him. Sometimes it's good to just shut-up and let the guest talk!

[@jeanneeber]

Great, great, simply great!!

[@Swnsasy]

Wow! I cannot wait to watch this.. Sounds extremely interesting and I've been wanting to learn about him...

[@lewisjohnson8297]

My main recollection of the McCarthy hearings was Nixon to his left, whispering in his ear. Why Cohn didn't register visually is a mystery.

[@southsidesky]

Firstly, noone had the guts to tell this woman that it's pronounced "cone" not "co-hen"? and next, Cohn was not gay, he was homosexual.

[@BluezFan91]

Great interview. Extremely interesting.

[@hualani6785]

Thank You Sir for making this film at this time. Lets hope it is widely seen across America. This needs extreme promotion, to be seen from up to 8 million citizens if possible.

[@danchristopher7957]

Hillary is a yardstick of decency???? Oh, please.

[@kathyjones274]

The connections to people and who they are, what they do where they do it 💯. Dirty pool indeed 💯. Americans need to wake up and smell the dirt 💯

[@LIZARD.KILLER..]

Interesting that this production completely avoids the child trafficking and blackmail operations aspect of Roy Cohn's activities. Hmmm . 🤔

[@readmore8740]

USA will be a completely and amazing country when all this stuff is figured out. First, rebuild Guantanamo Bay for the traitors and take away the boats, choppers, and planes.

[@realisticreality7705]

Government always is governed by big business. Love to see Documentary on the Clintons

[@lovely-mk4rt]

Thank you DN. 🕊Excellent piece

[@Dapaker]

Stone looks like one of the old guys sitting in the theater box on "The Muppet Show".

[@williamroark]

So........ “where’s MY Asshat Lawyer?” - Cheeto Like “Roy Cohn” was a good person?????..... COME ON PEOPLE!!!!!! BUST THE CHEETO BUBBLE ALREADY!!!!!!!

[@papigrande4378]

Stephen Miller = Roy Cohn 2.0

[@andresfernandes5906]

Excellent. And more critical than ever in the wake of the 2020 elections.

[@stephenabm7779]

The term “McCarthyism” was first used in the pages of Daily Worker, an official newspaper of the American Communist Party. While it would be odd that a communist newspaper would even care that McCarthy was destroying the reputations of folks who were not communists, it is not surprising that the Daily Worker would hate a U.S. senator who exhibited amazing energy and zeal in fighting communist infiltration of the U.S. government. What it is more puzzling, and even disgraceful, is the darts and arrows cast at McCarthy by non-communists and even conservatives, who should know better.

[@johnnytocino9313]

Bullshit. He was a crook, and even disbarred. Your premise us absurd. The term "cultural marxism" was coined by a extreme right winger. It's a term accepted by the left and the right, so what. If it wasn't the daily worker it would have been someone else.

[@kenwatson5562]

@ Stephen ABN. You silly old sausage.

[@malcognito7210]

So in a very real way, William Barr has become Trump's new Roy Cohn.

[@geoh1896]

the catholic cohn

[@Chuck0856]

CONE not Co-en

[@jackanthony976]

Where's My Roy Cohn is an excellent and entertaining documentary now playing at my neighborhood theatre, the Film Forum. Go see it.

[@subversivelysurreal3645]

If you want to see Joseph Welch, the lawyer who represented the US Army, and who actually put an end to the McCarthy period via ‘Army McCarthy’ can be seen in in a movie, playing a judge. ‘Anatomy of a Murder, 1959, dir. Otto Preminger, is an excellent film starring Jimmy Steward, Lee Remnick, Eva Arden and George C. Scott, Joseph Welch plays the judge in this courtroom drama. You’ll also get a surprise appearance, except not now, in seeing Duke Ellington, who scored the film beautifully, in a scene of the movie.

[@taraaliyeva1813]

Hands down this is EXCELLENT documentary. I have not seen this type of work for a long time. Please do more.

[@thorgt8197]

Yeah more nazi smear tactics by the ungodly ignorant scum destroying America and American minds.

[@ragrago]

Brilliant piece!

[@GoldTradersNiche]

robert Kennedy was also an attorney for Senator McCarthy

[@Mdebacle]

Note in the movie Marathon Man, they used a Kennedy family look-alike William Devane, as the government agent helping the Nazis.

[@thosethatcan]

Amazing testimony btw. Ty DN!

[@ralphtaylor7720]

I'm just beginning to familiarise myself with this odious and ctooked character. The Director did a marvelous job explaining his rise and demise. and great questions by the presenter. Thanks a lot.

[@yarazooom]

Roy Cohn carried J Edgar Hoover's suitcases

[@douglaschavez532]

Can you make a documentary about the massive corruption in Washington D.C. ?

[@LescoB1776]

This didnt age well

[@maxdoubt5219]

Wow. The Team of Vipers goes back a ways!

[@tombouie]

Thks, pls do the interview again for a hour.

[@LowescC]

wow........even for Roy..........wow

[@rbxyz8839]

thanks Amy for the insight into Trump

[@victrola13]

Myer Lansky allegedly made Donald J. Trump.

[@victorvegan9266]

Calling Roy Cohn a "handmaiden" is an insult to handmaidens. Also, I think you should say "self-proclaimed dirty trickster Roger Stone", to be perfectly clear he admits proudly to be.

[@MrPiha]

very good interview

[@mystijkissler8183]

Simple narcissism, usually Republican elitists, and handed down to their kids raised on pedestals, but these kids are known, in their old age, to suffer a sadly pathetic end. The old narcissist's demise is studied statistically, but the damage they cause is horrific in the lives they touch.

[@newtreena]

Democrat elitists, of which there are many, have the same problem and the same end....

[@silencedogood7297]

5 star reporting !

[@johnjohnson2825]

Why did she keep saying Cohn’s name wrong? Did that annoy anyone else?

[@HappyQuailsLC]

Can anyone tell me where I can see this documentary?

[@davidryle]

Communists are very creative. They not only drag you through the mud but they also make the mud.

[@emic621]

Regardless of what Julius Rosenberg was found guilty of, he didn't deserve to die. at the hands of the state, much less Ethel. RIP :(

[@tapptom]

That Stone is a nasty one

[@NWKBricks1]

Awesome and very compelling interview. For those interested, there's a very good movie starring James Woods called "Citizen Cohn."

[@normagrimstad8869]

One thing you can say is that Cohn was certainly more intelligent than DJT.

[@StrohmaniasFlyingCircus]

Cohn or Cohen?

[@NoRace]

He took out the "e" to hide his Jewish Roots

[@esoteric67]

Cohn

[@williamroark]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn

[@staatsfeindlich9939]

The Joe McCarthy people were "Coneheads" weren't they?

[@65minimom]

Len D - yes Con -Cohn & Don-Don - can you make this stuff up?

[@Alwaysaddnuts]

Interesting that Cohn and Trump were so close, were they ever a thing?

[@charliemorris2338]

She says Cohen,right?

[@kathethomas2437]

Cohn. Not CohEN...........

[@cmorea]

Poetic justice that the progeny of the architect of one red scare is the victim of another red scare?

[@kiteflys8942]

History has proven Senator Mcarthy was correct.

[@RandyNein]

He sounds like Witney Webb lol

[@rickroyer1162]

It’s Cohn, not Cohen! Great interview though

[@geoffstrowger9759]

Did he say "repeated on the international stage with "tariffying" consequences"?

[@MyPedorro]

30:07 Look at that bastard. He had his teeth pulled.

[@jdoggs08753]

WHY does she keep PRONOUNCING his name Cohen when his name is Cohn pronounced kône!!!

[@martitinkovich4489]

ask her to say ice cream kone..........................

[@RealPeteRyan]

Drinking game: Take a drink every time this man says “Uh” 🍻 Fascinating stuff beside that though.

[@martitinkovich4489]

bad habit...........agreed.

[@ricfax]

And every time she mispronounces Cohn as Cohen. A little show prep can go a long way.

[@kekom1758]

One could say that Roy Cohn earned and merited his own end. Unable to be of any more transactional use, he died alone and forsaken.

[@aristeidislykas7163]

Al Pacino has portrayed Roy Cohn in a mini series.

[@subversivelysurreal3645]

“ -where Anita Hill’s trial, hearing took place...” I love hearing people misspeak when they do so in ways that belie the truth. Because it was as if Anita Hill were being put on trial. Whose witness was she? The Democrats’ witness. Who was in charge of the proceedings. #JoesephBiden currently the media favorite for his third run at President. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@gregcappiello1202]

he corrected himself and said "hearing" -But it was part of the Clarence Thomas hearings - my guess is her name was more memorable to him than Clarence Thomas'

[@normagrimstad8869]

Oh my does Stone have a hairpiece.

[@mrnickckkper]

Trump was."Pure outer-borough" lol! And, he always will be.