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Trump Learned Every Lesson From the Roy Cohn Playbook, Except the Most Important One

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Former President Donald J. Trump has a long-standing, intimate relationship with the law.

Former U.S. Attorney Jim Zirin talks to author of Plaintiff in Chief: A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3,500 Lawsuits.

Zirin: Trump learned from Roy Cohn's playbook and learned to try the case in the press from Cohn .

Julian Zelizer : Trump distorts the adversarial process in the courts.

He says the court system is meant to resolve disputes in society, not to destroy the defendant or destroy the plaintiff.

Zelizer says the president is not above the law, but also he is above it in the case of immunity.

Roy Cohn was gay and closeted and had a boyfriend to whom Trump had promised to give an apartment.

The boyfriend had AIDS and Trump paid for an apartment for a while, but then he started to send bills.

Cohn said, “ Donald Trump pisses ice water.”.