From Quora: jb: True or not? [Vero o ben trovato? re President Trump/Russia]
Putin obviously has tons of kompromat on Trump, starting before the Soviet Union collapsed — Trump visited the USSR in 1987 through KGB outlet “Inturist”, and on his return to NY City, he placed giant anti-NATO ads in a newspaper.
But the most damning piece of kompromat — which most people don’t talk about (you hear about the “P-tape”, Epstein files, but not about that) is potentially evidence of non-heterosexual relations in his youth. In particular, with his mentor Roy Cohn.
Cohn was in his 20s when, as an assistant prosecutor in 1951, he helped engineer the conviction and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg as Soviet spies, using back-channel conversations with the judge to ensure the death penalty. Soon after, he became the chief counsel for Senator Joseph McCarthy's committee, rooting out alleged “Communists” from the government.
Through his influence on Trump, he’s now again influencing the American politics — and the whole world — decades after his death.
Were Cohn and young Trump lovers?
Is this the secret that the image-conscious Trump (who wears makeup at the age of 79 and constantly worried about his hair) trying to suppress? Does KGB/FSB have such tapes?
Cohn’s alliance with Trump started when he was representing Trumps in early 1970s as a lawyer. Trump and his father were sued for discriminating against black renters; Cohn settled the case after suing the government back.
It was Cohn who showed young Donald how to exploit power and instill fear: “attack, counterattack and never apologize". Cohn was also a master of media manipulation.
Ivy Meeropol on Cohn’s impact: "Cohn really paved the way for Trump and set him up with… the people who helped him get to the White House."
At a most formative period of Donald Trump’s life, there was no more formative figure near him than Cohn.
The relationship admittedly was very close.
Was it only a friendship?
Was it more?
But in reality, Trump dumped Cohn when he got sick with AIDS. He moved work to other attorneys. But when Cohn died, he did come to the funeral.
Curiously, Cohn was eulogized as a victim of “the liberal establishment,” of “foes in the media,” of “political enemies” who “tried to shoot him down.” Sound familiar?
Haggard Cohn 4 months before the end.
He was 59.
Trump’s relationship with Cohn might explain his “fatal attraction” to Vladimir Putin. Trump probably misses Cohn’s energy of ultimate nastiness and coldness — and that’s what he saw in Putin in 2018. That’s why he wants to meet him again so much. That’s why he wants to be his friend. One thing that Trump doesn’t realize is that 2018 Putin doesn’t exist anymore. Putin changed.
2025 Putin is a broken man. He can no longer control his guard dogs — the FSB. Local FSB officers start brawls affecting international relations (like Azerbaijan crisis now), and Putin can’t arrest them: no one will dare to arrest the FSB, and the FSB themselves have no interest in arresting their own for something all of them do.
Putin agrees with everyone who comes to him with requests or proposals — he promises to “look into it” or tells them to proceed with their plan. That’s why there is no coherent strategy — everyone is trying their own solutions. His subordinates still try to please him — to get funding (and steal as much as they can), but reportedly, even his former close friends and lifelong allies are planning their exit strategies, because it’s obvious Putin is a toxic failure and it’s only a matter of time until something gives.
But 2025 Trump is also a different man.
He lost his grasp.
Just like his mentor Roy Cohn, he’s been getting away with things for so long, he has decided he is invincible. Life loves to play with such conceited figures — and this time one conceited man is picked to put an orange highlight on figures sharing similar principles (the lack of thereof).
Trump will regret his fascination with Putin. But it will be too late. [jb capital letters]
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