posted October 26, 2018 04:39 PM            

“First of all, Roy was a master at understanding the news cycle, and particularly understanding the tabloids,” said Stone on “The Jamie Weinstein Show” podcast. “Roy would literally call up and dictate pieces for Page Six because [New York Post owner] Rupert [Murdoch] was a client and because Roy always had good material. So Roy understood the tabloids. Donald, I think, learned the tabloid media, and the media cycle, from Roy.”

DonWan on Cohn:

“Roy was brutal, but he was a very loyal guy,” Trump told the writer Tim O’Brien, in 2005. “He brutalized for you.”

Loyalty is a one way street for Cohn's protege however:

Trump, who, she said, abandoned his lawyer when he found out that Cohn was H.I.V.-positive. “They were so close, they talked at least several times a week,” she said. “And as soon as he found out, he took all his cases away from Roy except for one and got new lawyers. After all they’d been through together.”