2. The 1980s: Roy Cohn’s Orwellian America

0.      Lois Romano, “Donald Trump, Holding All the Cards: The Tower! The Team! The Money! The Future!” Washington Post, November 15, 1984, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1984/11/15/donald-trump-holding-all-the-cards-the-tower-the-team-the-money-the-future/8be79254-7793-4812-a153-f2b88e81fa54/?utm_term=.c610b02e7d79.

0.      Susan Mulcahy, “Confessions of a Trump Tabloid Scribe,” Politico Magazine, May/June 2016, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/2016-donald-trump-tabloids-new-york-post-daily-news-media-213842.

0.      Marcus Baram, “Donald Trump Was Once Sued by Justice Department for Not Renting to Blacks,” Huffington Post, April 29, 2011, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-blacks-lawsuit_n_855553.

0.      Alex Henderson, “Here’s Why Trump’s Ideal Lawyer, Roy Cohn, Was Such a Vile Figure in US Politics—and Why His Name Lives in Infamy,” AlterNet, April 20, 2019, https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/04/heres-why-trumps-ideal-lawyer-roy-cohn-was-such-a-vile-figure-in-us-politics-and-why-his-name-lives-in-infamy/.

0.      Baram, “Donald Trump Was Once Sued by Justice Department.”

0.      Judy Klemesrud, “Donald Trump, Real Estate Promoter, Builds Image as He Buys Buildings,” New York Times, November 1, 1976, https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2186610-donald-trump-real-estate-promoter-builds-image.html.

0.      Marie Brenner, “How Donald Trump and Roy Cohn’s Ruthless Symbiosis Changed America,” Vanity Fair, June 28, 2017, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/donald-trump-roy-cohn-relationship.

0.      Ron Elving, “President Trump Called for Roy Cohn, but Roy Cohn Was Gone,” NPR, January 7, 2018, https://www.npr.org/2018/01/07/576209428/president-trump-called-for-roy-cohn-but-roy-cohn-was-gone.

0.      Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, “Trump’s ‘Greatest Mentor’ Was Red-Baiting Aide to Joseph McCarthy,” Democracy Now!, July 5, 2016, https://truthout.org/video/trump-s-greatest-mentor-was-red-baiting-aide-to-joseph-mccarthy/.

0.    Alex Shephard and Theodore Ross, “‘There’s No Check on Trump Except Reality’: A Q&A with Wayne Barrett,” New Republic, December 1, 2016, https://newrepublic.com/article/139094/theres-no-check-trump-except-reality-qa-wayne-barrett.

0.    Brenner, “Donald Trump and Roy Cohn’s Ruthless Symbiosis.”

0.    Ibid.

0.    Peter Manso, “My Bizarre Dinner Party with Donald Trump, Roy Cohn and Estee Lauder,” Politico Magazine, May 27, 2016, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-dinner-party-213923; GLBTQ, “Cohn, Roy (1927–1986),” http://www.glbtqarchive.com/ssh/cohn_r_S.pdf.

0.    Craig Unger, “Trump’s Russian Laundromat,” New Republic, July 13, 2017, https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate.

0.    Ibid.

0.    Michael Winerip, “High Profile Prosecutor,” New York Times, June 9, 1985 https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/09/magazine/high-profile-prosecutor.html.

0.    The photo is viewable on Getty Images at https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/football-portrait-of-lawyer-roy-cohn-at-home-posing-with-stuffed-toy-picture-id621089776.

0.    Robert Mueller, “The Evolving Organized Crime Threat,” Federal Bureau of Investigation, Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, January 27, 2011, https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/speeches/the-evolving-organized-crime-threat.

0.    Jon Tuleya, “Reputed Philly Mobster Bumped from FBI’s ‘Ten Most Wanted’ List,” Philly Voice, December 17, 2015, https://www.phillyvoice.com/reputed-philly-mobster-bumped-fbis-ten-most-wanted-list/.

0.    Ibid.

0.    Federal Bureau of Investigation, “Top Ten Fugitives: Global Con Artist and Ruthless Criminal,” October 21, 2009, https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/stories/2009/october/mogilevich_102109.

0.    Callum Borchers, “The Amazing Story of Donald Trump’s Old Spokesman, John Barron—Who Was Actually Donald Trump Himself,” Washington Post, May 13, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/21/the-amazing-story-of-donald-trumps-old-spokesman-john-barron-who-was-actually-donald-trump-himself/?utm_term=.a2d07ab7231c.

0.    Glenn Thrush, “To Charm Trump, Paul Manafort Sold Himself as an Affordable Outsider,” New York Times, April 8, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/us/to-charm-trump-paul-manafort-sold-himself-as-an-affordable-outsider.html.

0.    Michael Kruse, “‘He Brutalized For You,’” Politico Magazine, April 8, 2016, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/donald-trump-roy-cohn-mentor-joseph-mccarthy-213799?o=0.

0.    Becky Little, “Roy Cohn: From Ruthless ‘Red Scare’ Prosecutor to Donald Trump’s Mentor,” History Channel, 2019, https://www.history.com/news/roy-cohn-mccarthyism-rosenberg-trial-donald-trump.

0.    Harold Meyerson, “The State of Work in the Age of Anxiety,” American Prospect, https://prospect.org/article/40-year-slump.

0.    Dwight Eisenhower, “Address ‘The Chance for Peace’ Delivered Before the American Society of Newspaper Editors,” online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-chance-for-peace-delivered-before-the-american-society-newspaper-editors.

0.    Axios, “Chart: How Pay Level Relates to Worker Productivity,” May 7, 2019, https://www.axios.com/pay-level-wages-worker-productivity-labor-ee3c5728-7e56-4496-8bc6-212895a9840d.html.

0.    James Briggs, “In Gary, Memories of Donald Trump’s Casino Promises,” Indianapolis Star, April 24, 2016, https://www.indystar.com/story/money/2016/04/24/gary-memories-donald-trumps-casino-promises/82886050/; Russ Buettner and Charles V. Bagli, “How Donald Trump Bankrupted His Atlantic City Casinos, but Still Earned Millions,” New York Times, June 11, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/nyregion/donald-trump-atlantic-city.html.

0.    Hans-Wilhelm Saure, “Czech Stasi Spied on the Trumps,” Bild, December 15, 2016, https://www.bild.de/news/ausland/donald-trump/czech-stasi-spied-on-the-trumps-49326256.bild.html; “Czech secret agents spied on Trump: He’s ‘completely tax-exempt for the next 30 years.’” Business Insider, December 15, 2016, https://www.businessinsider.com/czech-secret-agents-spied-on-donald-trump-he-is-tax-exempt-for-30-years-2016-12.

0.    Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (New York: Basic Books, 1999); Greg Myre, “‘Moscow Rules’: How the CIA Operated Under the Watchful Eye of the KGB,” NPR, June 10, 2019, https://www.npr.org/2019/06/10/724099134/moscow-rules-how-the-cia-operated-under-the-watchful-eye-of-the-kgb.

0.    Hans-Wilhelm Saure, “Czech secret agents spied on Trump: He’s ‘completely tax-exempt for the next 30 years.’”

0.    Luke Harding, “Czechoslovakia Ramped Up Spying on Trump in Late 1980s, Seeking US Intel,” The Guardian, October 29, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/29/trump-czechoslovakia-communism-spying.

0.    Adam Lusher, “Adnan Khashoggi: The ‘Whoremonger’ Whose Arms Deals Funded a Playboy Life of Decadence and ‘Pleasure Wives,’” The Independent, June 7, 2017, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/adnan-khashoggi-dead-saudi-arms-dealer-playboy-pleasure-wives-billionaire-lifestyle-wealth-profit-a7778031.html.

0.    “‘Credible Evidence’ Links MBS to Khashoggi’s Murder: UN Report,” Al Jazeera, June 19, 2019, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/06/khashoggi-killing-credible-evidence-linking-mbs-murder-190619100354253.html.

0.    Jane Mayer, “Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All,” New Yorker, July 18, 2016, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all.

0.    Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwarz, The Art of the Deal (New York: Ballantine Books), 27.

0.    TASS, “Russian Ambassador to UN Says Met Trump Twice,” August 2, 2016, https://www.rbth.com/news/2016/08/02/russian-ambassador-to-un-says-met-trump-twice_617373.

0.    Aleksandr Yunashev, “Чуркин: Ни Трамп, ни Ромни—не специалисты во внешней политике” [“Neither Trump Nor Romney Are Experts on Foreign Policy”], RT, November 24, 2016, https://life.ru/t/новости/936573/churkin_ni_tramp_ni_romni_—_nie_spietsialisty_vo_vnieshniei_politikie; Elise Labott, “Russia Protests Anti-Trump Comments by Top UN Official,” CNN.com, October 11, 2016, ttps://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/11/politics/russia-donald-trump-united-nations-protest/index.html.

0.    Thomas Tracy, “NYC Medical Examiner Won’t Release Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin’s Autopsy Results,” New York Daily News, March 10, 2017, https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-officials-won-release-russian-ambassador-autopsy-results-article-1.2994404.

0.    Shannon Vavra, “Russian Diplomats Keep Dying Unexpectedly,” Axios, August 24, 2017, https://www.axios.com/russian-diplomats-keep-dying-unexpectedly-1513303951-de0183f3-7f77-400e-b9a2-45fb8ed7dfbd.html.

0.    Bryan MacDonald, “Since Trump Won US Election, Russia-Bashing Industry Has Never Had It So Good,” RT, March 13, 2017, https://www.rt.com/op-ed/380539-trump-won-us-election-russia/.

0.    Luke Harding, “The Hidden History of Trump’s First Trip to Moscow,” Politico Magazine, November 19, 2017, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842.

0.    Paula Span, “When Trump Hoped to Meet Gorbachev in Manhattan,” Washington Post, July 10, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/from-the-archives-when-trump-hoped-to-meet-gorbachev-in-manhattan/2017/07/10/3f570b42-658c-11e7-a1d7-9a32c91c6f40_story.html?utm_term=.fa7f26a368ee.

0.    Ron Rosenbaum, “Trump’s Nuclear Experience,” Slate, March 1, 2016, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_spectator/2016/03/trump_s_nuclear_experience_advice_for_reagan_in_1987.html.

0.    Ilan Ben-Meir, “That Time Trump Spent Nearly $100,000 on an Ad Criticizing U.S. Foreign Policy in 1987,” BuzzFeed News, July 10, 2015, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ilanbenmeir/that-time-trump-spent-nearly-100000-on-an-ad-criticizing-us.

0.    Ibid.

0.    Rick Jervis, “Trump Confidant Roger Stone Gets the President He’s Wanted Since 1988,” USA Today, May 21, 2017, https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2017/05/21/roger-stone-donald-trump-documentary/101909014/.

0.    “The Other Time Trump Was Huge,” Newsweek, July 30, 2015, https://www.newsweek.com/rise-trump-357533.

0.    Michael Kruse, “The True Story of Donald Trump’s First Campaign Speech—in 1987,” Politico Magazine, February 5, 2016, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/02/donald-trump-first-campaign-speech-new-hampshire-1987-213595?o=1.

0.    Claude Brodesser-Akner, “Watch: Did Trump Blame A.C. Casino Failures on Executives Killed in N.J. Copter Crash?,” NJ Advance Media, August 12, 2016, https://www.nj.com/politics/2016/08/watch_did_trump_blame_ac_casino_failures_on_dead_e.html.

0.    William D. Cohan, “Can Donald Jr. and Eric Trump Really Run the Family Business?” Vanity Fair, February 2017, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/12/can-donald-jr-and-eric-trump-run-the-family-business.

0.    Harry Hurt, Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump (Brattleboro, VT: Echo Point Books, 1993), Kindle edition.

0.    Jane Mayer, “Documenting Trump’s Abuse of Women,” New Yorker, October 17, 2016, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/24/documenting-trumps-abuse-of-women.

0.    John Santucci, “Donald Trump’s Ex-Wife Ivana Disavows Old ‘Rape’ Allegation,” ABC News, July 28, 2015, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trumps-wife-ivana-disavows-rape-allegation/story?id=32732204.

0.    Betsy Woodruff, “Cohen Is Prepared to Say Who Signed His Stormy Daniels ‘Cover-up’ Checks,” Daily Beast, February 26, 2019, https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-cohen-is-prepared-to-say-who-signed-his-stormy-daniels-cover-up-checks.

0.    Doina Chiacu and Sarah N. Lynch, “Cohen: Trump Ordered Him to Make 500 Threats over 10 Years,” Reuters, February 27, 2019, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-threats-idUSKCN1QG2MM.

0.    Mark Hertsgaard, “Donald Trump’s Favorite Drug Trafficker and Other Unsung Scandals of the Presidency From Hell,” The Nation, March 13, 2018, https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trumps-favorite-drug-trafficker-and-other-unsung-scandals-of-the-presidency-from-hell/.

0.    George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949), 222.