In the FOURTH PART of the special Court of History series on Donald Trump’s malevolent mentor Roy Cohn, Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Kai Bird, author of “American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey,” on hos Roy Cohn molded Donald Trump into his creation, brought him into his mob underworld to build Trump Tower, advance him through corruption, teach his the lessons of intimidation, lying and stealing, cheated Ivana Trump in her prenup, lived a closeted gay life, turned into a pedophile, was disbarred, and died of AIDS, cut off from Trump, who sobbed at his funeral, and plaintively asks, “Where’s my Roy Cohn?”

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss Sidney’s column in The Guardian, “Trump’s midterm campaign theme is unrequited love,” the crisis of his cult of personality, his manipulative ploy to get people to show love for him by voting Republican, his exploitation of Karoline Leavitt and Darline Graham as his instruments to advance his self-love campaign, and the role of his aide Natalie harp as his perfect worship and perfect voter.

In the THIRD PART of the special Court of History series on Donald Trump’s malevolent mentor Roy Cohn, Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Kai Bird, author of “American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey,” about how the disgraced counsel to Joe McCarthy returns to New York City to become its king, the center of celebrity, tabloid journalism and the Mafia, the friend of William F. Buckley and Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, takes on Roger Stone as a protege, works for all the Five Families of the Mob, escapes the law, preys upon young men as a closeted homosexual, lies, steals and cheats his way to the top, and meets Donald Trump, who was his apprentice.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Maggie Haberman, White House correspondent for the New York Times, on her new book, “Regime Change,” how Trump plays JD Vance, Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth off against each other, why Vance might not run, Trump’s belief that he is above the law and nothing can ever touch him, inside the secret Jared Kushner-Hakim Jeffries meeting, and what Trump plans to interfere with the midterm elections.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Maggie Haberman, White House correspondent for the New York Times, on her new book, “Regime Change,” the secret role of Natlaie Harp, Pete Hegseth’s potential political ambition, Susie Wiles incapable of controlling Donald Trump, Stephen Miller’s power center, and the vast corruption permeating everything.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Representative jason Crow (D-CO), of the House Armed Services and Intelligence committees, on how Trump has trashed the US military, the plight of the USS Lincoln, Hegseth’s corrupt racket at the Pentagon, and Trump’s ploys to thwart the midterm elections.

In the SECOND part of a special four part series on Donald Trump’s malevolent mentor Roy Cohn, Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Kai Bird, author of “American Scounrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey,” reveal his early mafia links, exploitation of tabloid columnists, how he became Senator Joseph McCarthy’s special counsel, drove the Red Scare and the Lavender Scare against gays, even though he was a closeted homosexual, his fights with Robert F. Kennedy, his attempt to overthrow President Eisenhower to replace him with McCarthy, the televised Army-McCarthy hearings, where Cohn perjured himself, the censure of McCarthy, and how, according to Kai Bird, Cohn’s greed killed McCarthy.

In the first part of a special four part series on Donald Trump’s malevolent mentor Roy Cohn, Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Kai Bird, author of “American Scounrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey,” on Cohn’s early ties to the mafia and corrupt politics, and his prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and how he tampered with evidence to send Ethel to the electric chair.

Sidney Blumenthal speaks with Sean Wilentz about his article in The New Republic on the creation of the manopshere for Trump’s 2024 election, the Tate Brothers, Barron Trump as the go-between, the intersection of international crime and Trump politics, and the connection to Vladimir Putin and Russian disinformation and influence.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with former federal judge, J. Michael Luttig, on the ultimate Trump ploy to steal the midterm elections, refuse to seat newly elected Democratic members of the next 120th Congress, and end democracy.