most notorious because of his status as the former 8 and attorney to senator joe mccarthy in the '50s. he was known as legal executioner in new york which is what a young 27-year-old donald trump wanted in that case. during that case is one right and came with the possible exception of his father, donald trump's most indispensable mentor, most lasting influence because of the lessons he was able to impart traffic case that lasted for years dropped the mid-70s, attack, deny, most importantly delay. all of those things in the playbook, donald trump learned greedily in the '70s and some extent employing them ever since. as i point out in the piece, first he learned from roy cohn and searched for