I've just watched the film "The Apprentice," a biopic of Donald Trump's early relationship with his superstar New York attorney Roy Cohn, with a screenplay written by journalist Gabriel Sherman who claims "The funny thing is, everything in the movie that seems the most shocking is actually completely based on real events...Very little has been dramatized. It's one of these stories where the truth is stranger than fiction."
https://ew.com/the-apprentice-screenwriter-true-stories-behind-biopic-liposuction-drugs-blackmail-8726438
While the film does NOT go into any revelations about Trump's fascination with Nazi military strategies, or his deep friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, or his possible handling by Soviet agents, it DOES cover his mentorship by Roy Cohn and how Trump, maniacally, wanted to take Cohn's philosophy to extreme ends.
Most of you are probably aware of Cohn's philosophy of winning, and how it inspired Trump's book entitled "The Art of the Deal." What is probably not as well known is that Cohn was a closeted homosexual, throwing parties at Studio 54, with wild after-parties at his townhouse involving some of the most prominent people in New York society, including those with great power over New York politics and the judicial system. Cohn was known for his ability to blackmail powerful people, using recordings of phone conversations, and there is one scene in the film with Cohn showing Trump a room in his basement (he calls his "playroom") filled with tape recordings and "a patch bay running cables to any room in the house and you can listen in." Cohen subsequently uses one of his tape recorded phone calls as blackmail in order to have the City Council eliminate property taxes on Trump's first real estate deal.
Imagine Trump, later, taking this strategy to his "best friend" Jeffrey Epstein, using video and tape recordings in order to blackmail many of the mostly Republicans frequenting Epstein's sex trafficking events. Imagine Trump's more recent best friend, Vladimer Putin, getting his hands on some of this information in order to generate 'kompromat,' subverting a majority of Republican politicians to his will.
This may be what We the People are up against!
"You have to be willing to do anything to anyone to win...You have to be willing to exploit your enemies and instill fear."