Timothy L. O'Brien, Columnist

Unfortunately for Trump, Michael Cohen Is No Roy Cohn

The president likes tough-guy lawyers. These days, it's not working out so well.

April 11, 2018 at 7:00 AM EDT

Timothy L. O'Brien is senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. A former editor and reporter for the New York Times, he is author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.”

Just not the same.
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When Donald Trump was a young Manhattan real-estate developer, and negotiations with competitors or partners reached an impasse, he would brandish a photograph of his pit-bull attorney, Roy Cohn. “Would you rather deal with him?” Trump would ask.

This was Roy Cohn:

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