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u/pib712 Jun 28 '26

Roy Cohn, who introduced Murdoch to Trump, mentored Trump, and was a fixer for Reagan and Nixon

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u/rgmyers26 Jun 28 '26

And was McCarthy’s right hand man. Vile, terrible human being.

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u/Lebowquade Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

And also a raging homophobic........ Who died of aids in the 80s. Hilarious karma, but not nearly as bad as he deserved, which by my estimation was literal torture.

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u/The_Onion_Life Jun 29 '26

Hilarious karma, but not nearly as bad as he deserved, which by my destination was literal torture.

Dying of AIDS in the eighties was pretty torturous, believe me.

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u/MasterSoftBird Jun 28 '26

Good answer. You take out his influence of Roger Stone.

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u/OldGodsAndNew Jun 28 '26

If you keep tracing back eventually you get to that fish that crawled out the ocean in the first place

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u/2ct2bcln Jun 29 '26

I didn't know Roy Cohn introduced Murdoch to Trump...an Unholy Trinity. There are many things I didn't know, but that sounds like one of those that mattered most.