If you don’t know who Roy Cohn is, you can read more about him here. As the BBC put it, “Cohn is best known now for the lessons he taught Trump, but even before that he was an outsized figure running through US politics and culture. To note his most flagrant hypocrisy, Cohn was a gay man who persecuted other gay people out of their government jobs during what became known as the Lavender Scare of the 1950s. Throughout his life, he bullied people and tried to bully facts.” He is also depicted in the play and movie Angels in America and served as the inspiration for Mr. Burns in The Simpsons.
