A closeted homosexual, he spouted homophobia that, after his death from AIDS in 1986, helped inspire playwright Tony Kushner to populate his Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, “Angels in America,” with a malevolent Roy Cohn character.
Trump and Cohn crossed paths at a time when Trump needed a lawyer to represent him and his father against federal charges of refusing to rent to blacks in Trump developments in Brooklyn and Queens.
Cohn took the assignment. Despite definitive case histories of discrimination, Cohn fought the federal government to a consent decree without admitting wrongdoing. At that, he took command as Trump’s mentor.
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A closeted homosexual, he spouted homophobia that, after his death from AIDS in 1986, helped inspire playwright Tony Kushner to populate his Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, “Angels in America,” with a malevolent Roy Cohn character.
Trump and Cohn crossed paths at a time when Trump needed a lawyer to represent him and his father against federal charges of refusing to rent to blacks in Trump developments in Brooklyn and Queens.
Cohn took the assignment. Despite definitive case histories of discrimination, Cohn fought the federal government to a consent decree without admitting wrongdoing. At that, he took command as Trump’s mentor.