Roy Cohn Did It First

The day after Donald Trump won the 2016 election, the conservative political operative Roger Stone was among the lucky few to get through to him on the telephone. The president-elect reminisced about the long-dead friend who had introduced him to Stone: “Wouldn’t Roy love to see this moment? Boy, do we miss him.” “Roy” was Roy Cohn, who became notorious in the early 1950s as chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy and then built a career as a lawyer and fixer for New York City’s rich and…