Clock: What Trump fears the most – from the ink

We just spoke to Gabriel Sherman, the screenwriter behind it The apprenticesticeThe new film that Donald Trump's forming years and his relationship with the brutal, amoral lawyer and Kingmaker Roy Cohn examines, whose three rules Trump still determine today:

1. Attack. Attack. Attack.

2. Admit nothing. Deny everything.

3. Get the victory and never allow a defeat.

When Cohn died of AIDS, his protégé Donald Trump – on the rise after learning everything from Cohn's power hours – left him. Cohn told journalist Wayne Barrett that he couldn't believe that Trump had done that Donald “pisses ice water”.

And comes from one of the most malignant figures of the 20th century that says a lot about Trump – or at least the Trump that Cohn had made.

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We spoke to Sherman – an experienced reporter who has covered Trump for decades since he started The New York observer As a real estate reporter – about what the old Trump can tell us about the new one; Why fictionalization made it possible for him to access deeper truths about the man; the fragile musk relationship; And Trump's greatest fear.

If you want to understand and thwart the Donald Trump – who invented the younger man from what he learned from his tyrannical father, who divided the world into murderers and losers, and Cohn, who taught him the rules for the domination – you will not miss this conversation.

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