Sunday, June 19, 2016

Trump's Disgusting Attacks on Obama: His Smears Are Right out of Roy Cohn's Playbook @alternet

Trump's Disgusting Attacks on Obama: His Smears Are Right out of Roy Cohn's Playbook @alternet:

"One can certainly see the echoes of McCarthy in Trump’s comments yesterday. Suggesting that the president is colluding with terrorists (if not worse) is right out of the Roy Cohn playbook. Cohn and McCarthy weren’t the only ones however. This particular strain of right wing thought — the idea that the government had been infiltrated by America’s enemies — was held by many people during that era, famously including Robert Welch, founder of the John Birch Society"