...The Six Dark Lessons Roy Cohn Taught Trump (That He Still Uses Today)
1. Never apologize or admit wrongdoing, ever. 2. Always counter-attack, and always with greater force than you received. 3. Use the legal system as a weapon, not a recourse for justice. 4. Manipulate the media ruthlessly. 5. Use fear as both shield and sword. 6. Build a fortress of loyalty around yourself.
.. in his public declarations, but inside he would be terrified of losing it in the manner he is.
"Trump probably also saw his plummeting approval numbers. He'll do anything for self-preservation if he thought it would help him. Including doing a cocaine bump off the corpse of Stalin on live TV"
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”