Kai Bird da Susan Goldmark sun rubuta littafin da Trumpworld ba zai so ka karanta ba. An fitar da shi a ranar Talata, American Scoundrel tarihin rayuwa ne mai sauri da tashin hankali na Roy Cohn, lauyan mob na New York wanda rayuwarsa ta ban mamaki ta biyo, kamar yadda taken littafin ya ce, "Tafiya mai duhu daga Joe McCarthy zuwa Donald Trump."
"Na gaya wa mai tallatawa na ya tuntuɓi kowane daga cikin masu gabatar da shirye-shiryen Fox News da manema labarai, zuwa Joe Rogan, Steve Bannon," in ji Bird. "Ba mu ji wata kalma ba, sai dai daga Joe Rogan. Ya ce ya duba galleys, kuma ya koma ga mai tallatawa na ya ce, 'Ba ni da sha'awa.' Na yi mamaki. Wannan tarihin rayuwa ne mai muhimmanci na mai ba da shawara ga shugaban, wanda yake sha'awar a fili kuma ya ce har yanzu yana kewarsa."
Daga tsakiyar 70s zuwa tsakiyar 80s, Cohn ya jagoranci Trump ta cikin duniyar rashin tausayi ta gidaje a New York. Duk wani abu mai muni game da Trump, a kasuwanci da siyasa, mai yiwuwa ya koya daga Cohn. Yadda ake samun riba daga alaƙa da laifukan da aka tsara? Duba. Yadda ake kasancewa gaba da doka? Duba. Yadda ake yin ƙarya ba tare da nadama ba kuma ba a taɓa yarda da laifi ko shan kashi ba? Duba.
Ba mamaki cewa a 2017, a cikin wani abin kunya game da alaƙa da Rasha wanda mataimakansa ba su iya sarrafa ba, Trump ya shahara ya ce: "Ina Roy Cohn na?"
Trump ya san game da American Scoundrel, domin Bird ya kira shi sau huɗu a lambar sa ta sirri.
"Tambayoyin sun kasance minti takwas, tara, goma," in ji Bird. "Ya ba da wasu labarai. Sun kasance masu amfani a gare ni. Na tambaya, 'To, yaya ka fara saduwa da Roy Cohn?' Kuma ina tsammanin abin da ya faɗa a baya a cikin The Art of the Deal da kuma a cikin tambayoyi, amma a maimakon haka ya juya labarin gaba ɗaya. Maimakon ya je wurin babban mutum, ya gane lauyan mai iko da ke zaune a wani teburin kusa a Le Club a Manhattan [a 1973], ya ce, 'Oh, Roy Cohn ya gane ni. Ina yin suna a matsayin matashin mai haɓaka gidaje a Manhattan.'"
Wani darasi daga Cohn: faɗa labarin yadda kake so.
Da yake kwatanta kiran sa na ƙarshe da Trump, Bird ya ce: "Yana da ban mamaki. Kana kiran sa ba zato ba tsammani, kuma ya ɗauka. Wannan lokacin, maimakon ya saurari tambayoyina cikin ladabi, ya ce, 'Oh, ba zan iya yin wannan ba. Ba ni da lokaci don wannan. Bai kamata ka yi amfani da wannan lambar ba. Ni ne shugaban ƙasa. Ina da Rasha tana kira. Ina da China tana kira.' Kuma na ce, 'To, na fahimta, Mista Shugaba, amma ina da tambayoyi biyu kawai.'
"Kuma na tambaya, 'Shin ka san cewa Roy Cohn a 1976 ya zaɓi Jimmy Carter?' Kuma ya ce, 'Ah, wannan abin ban mamaki ne. Me ya sa zai yi haka?' Kuma na ce, 'To, Roy ya ɗan gaji kuma ya kasa haƙuri da tsohuwar jam'iyyar Republican wadda Gerald Ford ke wakilta, kuma ya ɗauka cewa Jimmy Carter sabon fuska ne.' Kuma Trump ya ce, 'Oh, na iya fahimtar hakan. Wannan yana da ma'ana.' Ka san takaicinsa da kafuwar jam'iyyar Republican. Don haka wannan dole ya shafe shi.
"Sa'an nan na ce, 'To, Cohn da sauri ya yanke kauna da Carter, musamman game da yarjejeniyar Panama Canal, kuma ba shakka Trump ya shiga ya ce, 'Ee, wannan yarjejeniya ce mai muni. Wace yarjejeniya ce mai muni!' Yana ƙoƙarin kashe wayar, kuma na ce, 'To, ina so ka sani cewa wannan littafin zai fito a kaka, kuma ya ce, 'Oh, mai kyau, watakila zan iya tallata shi. Duk abin da na tallata yana zuwa lamba ta ɗaya.' Sa'an nan akwai dakatawa, kuma ya ce, 'Tabbas, dole ne ya kasance mai adalci.'"
American Scoundrel tabbas mai adalci ne. Bird ya ci lambar yabo ta Pulitzer don American Prometheus, tarihin rayuwar masanin kimiyyar nukiliya J Robert Oppenheimer wanda ya rubuta tare da Martin J Sherwin kuma shine tushen fim ɗin Christopher Nolan wanda ya lashe Oscar. Batun Bird na ƙarshe shine Carter. Cohn ya ci gaba da fitowa, don haka Bird da Goldmark (matarsa, "daraktan bincike" da "muse") suka fara aiki. Sa'an nan aka sake zaɓar Trump. Cohn ya sake zama mai dacewa.
"A shekara 27, Cohn yana kan murfin mujallar Time," in ji Bird, yana nuna hawan da ya ga Cohn ya kammala daga Columbia Law School yana 20, ya gurfanar da Julius da Ethel Rosenberg, waɗanda aka kashe saboda leƙen asiri ga Rasha, sa'an nan ya zama mataimakin Sanata Joe McCarthy na Republican a lokacin Red Scare—tsanantawa mai tsanani a 1950s ga masu sassaucin ra'ayi da 'yan luwadi—shine Roy Cohn. Bird ya lura, "Joe McCarthy mutum ne mai sauƙi kuma ba shi da ƙarfi fiye da Roy Cohn. McCarthy ɗan majalisar dattawa ne na jama'a daga Wisconsin kawai yana neman yin kanun labarai, kuma ya ɗan faɗa a kan ra'ayin 'yan gurguzu a cikin gwamnati."
Cohn, a gefe guda, shine "mai akida. Shi ne Svengali, ainihin kwakwalwa, wanda ke gaya wa Joe McCarthy yadda zai yi amfani da wannan batu. Yana gudanar da sauraron karar, yana tambayar shaidu da gaske, kuma yana motsa shi da imani mai ƙarfi cewa gurguzu na ciki yana barazana ga ƙasa. A matsayinsa na Bayahude Ba'amurke—kuma wannan shine mabuɗin ga ainihin sa, ina tsammanin—yana kuma so ya tabbatar da amincin sa, ya nuna cewa ba duka Yahudawa masu hagu ba ne."
Takardun Cohn na dama sun kasance masu ƙarfi: yana kusa da Rupert Murdoch, Ronald Reagan, da sauran manyan mutanen masu ra'ayin mazan jiya.
Yayin da muguntar McCarthyism ke sake yin sauti a cikin yaƙin Trump na wuce gona da iri da "woke," haka ma kuskuren waɗancan masu binciken. Sauraron karar Army-McCarthy, wanda ya kawo ƙarshen McCarthy a 1954, ya fara ne saboda Cohn ya ƙoƙari ya hana wani matashi mai bincike, G. David Schine, yin hidima a ƙasashen waje. Sanatoci sun nuna cewa Cohn da Schine masoya ne. Cohn tabbas ɗan luwadi ne amma bai taɓa fitowa a fili ba. Bird ya ƙara da cewa, "Ya kuma kasance a fili yana sha'awar Donald Trump. Lokacin da suka sadu, Trump yana da shekara 27—dogo, mai farin gashi, shuɗiyar idanu, kuma ɗan arziki. Don haka shi ne irin wanda Roy ke so. Ba na tsammanin wani abu na jima'i ya faru tsakaninsu, amma akwai wani yanayi, da kuma tsari a cikin abokantakar Roy."
Cohn na iya zama mai karimci. Bird ya nuna Gary Belis, wanda ya yi soyayya da Cohn (mai shekaru 25 a kansa) amma bai kwana da shi ba kuma ya kasance yana son sa. Duk da haka wannan labarin ya bayyana a cikin wani babi mai suna "Predator," wanda kuma ya haɗa da mummunan labarin Richard Kerr, ɗan Arewacin Ireland da aka ci zarafinsa a wurin kulawa sannan aka yi masa fataucin mutane a duniya, ciki har da Roy Cohn.
"Yana iya zama mai ban sha'awa sosai da wani kamar Gary Belis kuma mai kyau," in ji Bird. "Ya yi masa zawarci, ya ba shi kyaututtuka kamar yadda Roy zai yi, amma ya ja da baya lokacin da Gary ya bayyana cewa ba zai iya bin wannan hanyar ba. Duk da haka, Cohn ya kasance mai shan jima'i kuma yana da waɗannan 'yar tsana'—matasa masu karuwanci da ake biya don jima'i."
Cohn ɗan adam ne na Amurka. Ya bayyana a cikin Angels in America, babban wasan kwaikwayo na Tony Kushner game da rikicin AIDS. A 2024, Jeremy Strong ya taka shi a cikin The Apprentice, fim ɗin Ali Abbasi game da Trump. Wani ɓangare na tarihin sa mallakin Michael Stipe na REM ne, wanda ya rubuta waƙar "Exhuming McCarthy."
Ya mutu a 1986 yana da shekara 59 daga AIDS. Kamar yadda ya taɓa musun jima'in sa, ya musun rashin lafiyar sa ta ƙarshe, yana da'awar ciwon hanta yayin da yake karɓar maganin AIDS na gwaji saboda alaƙar sa da Washington. Kafin mutuwarsa, an cire masa lasisin lauya saboda rashin da'a, kodayake tuhume-tuhume uku sun kasa kawo shi ƙasa. (Har yanzu yana da shaidu 36 na hali, ciki har da Trump, William F. Buckley Jr., da mai gabatar da shirye-shiryen TV Barbara Walters, wadda ta taɓa zama "gemu" na Cohn, ko kuma abin sha'awa na ƙarya.) A kwanakinsa na ƙarshe, ana yawan cewa Trump ya watsar da Cohn, wanda ya sa ya ce, "Donald yana fitsarin ruwan kankara." Bird ya ce, "Wannan ba gaskiya ba ne gaba ɗaya.
"Ina ambaton Chris Seymour, ma'aikacin wayar a ofishin lauyoyin Cohn a New York. Ya ce lokacin da Trump ya gane cewa Roy yana mutuwa daga AIDS, ya fara nisantar sa. Ya dogara da shi ƙasa da ƙasa a matsayin lauyan sa, kuma kira ya zama ƙasa. Amma wannan ba yana nufin ya yanke shi ba. Ya gayyace shi zuwa sabon gidansa a Mar-a-Lago don wani abincin dare mai ban mamaki a Maris '86, watanni biyar kafin ya mutu. Abincin dare ne na bankwana mai ban sha'awa tare da yawan toasts."
An gudanar da taron tunawa da Cohn a tsakiyar Manhattan, kuma wani shaida ya ga Trump yana kuka.
American Scoundrel yana nan yanzu.
Tambayoyin da Aka Yi Yawaita
Anan akwai jerin tambayoyin da aka yi yawaita game da sabon littafin da ke ba da haske kan tasirin Roy Cohn a kan Donald Trump wanda aka rubuta cikin yanayi na halitta da bayyananne
Bayani na Gaba ɗaya
Q Wanene Roy Cohn
A Roy Cohn lauya ne na Amurka mai rashin tausayi a tsakiyar karni na 20 Ya fara shahara a matsayin babban lauyan Sanata Joseph McCarthy a lokacin sauraron karar Red Scare na gurguzu a 1950s Daga baya ya zama mai gyara abubuwa mai ƙarfi a birnin New York wanda aka sani da amfani da dabarun shari'a masu tsauri da rashin da'a
Q Menene babban gardamar wannan sabon littafin
A Littafin yana jayayya cewa Roy Cohn ba kawai lauyan Donald Trump ba ne amma babban mai ba da shawara da uban siyasa Yana nuna cewa salon Trump na tsauri ba nadama ba koyaushe kai hari wanda daga baya ya yi amfani da shi a kasuwanci da siyasa an tsara shi kai tsaye bisa tsarin Cohn
Q Me ya sa aka ɗauki wannan littafin sabo idan an riga an san dangantakar Cohn-Trump
A Yayin da aka san dangantakar, wannan littafin ya zurfafa cikin yadda Cohn ya tsara ra'ayin Trump Yana amfani da sabbin tambayoyi, takardu na sirri, da labarai don nuna takamaiman darussan da Cohn ya koya wa Trump, yana wucewa fiye da labarin 'sun kasance abokai' na gaba ɗaya don nuna canja wurin falsafar rashin tausayi kai tsaye
Q Shin wannan littafin tarihin rayuwa ne da aka ba da izini
A A'a, ba a ba da izini daga Donald Trump ba Aiki ne na jarida mai zaman kansa, wanda ke nufin ya dogara da bayanan jama'a, kayan tarihi, da tambayoyi da mutanen da suka san duka mutanen biyu
Dangantakar Cohn-Trump
Q Yaya Roy Cohn da Donald Trump suka fara saduwa
A Sun sadu a 1970s a wani kulob na sirri a birnin New York Trump, sa'an nan matashin mai haɓaka gidaje, yana fuskantar ƙara daga Ma'aikatar Shari'a game da zargin nuna bambanci a cikin gidajensa Ya ɗauki Cohn don yaƙar ƙarar kuma Cohn ya ci nasara ta hanyar juya labarin da kuma ƙara ƙara wa gwamnati dala miliyan 100
Q Menene mafi muhimmanci darasin da Cohn ya koya wa Trump
