After starting his career as a federal prosecutor and serving as chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn practiced law in New York, developing a reputation as the quintessential fixer. One of the people Cohn represented and mentored was a young real estate developer named Donald Trump. In The Art of the Deal, Trump wrote that while hundreds of individuals who boasted of their uncompromising integrity had “absolutely no loyalty,” Cohn was “just the opposite.” He would later state that Cohn had “been vicious to others in his protection of me.”
In 2017, at the outset of the Russian collusion investigation, after then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself, President Trump lamented, “Where is my Roy Cohn?”
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