Kai Bird on Roy Cohn Advising Donald Trump to Sue the Federal Government in 1973

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Author Kai Bird on Roy Cohn's assisting Donald Trump in 1973 when the Trump Organization was being sued by the federal government: "They were being sued by the federal government for discrimination in their housing developments in the Queens, and they were openly, you know, putting big C's circled for colored on the applications of renters who were Black. And the feds got wind of this and dug into the case. And it was it was the kind of case that should have just been settled. But the young Donald Trump, at the age of 27, approached Roy Cohn in October of 1973 at a fancy private dinner club called Le Club, and said he needed some advice. And Roy's advice was sue the feds, sue them for $100 million. And so the young Trump liked this advice and took up Roy as his lawyer...It did not work. The case was dismissed initially after three months, but Roy managed to sort of string it along for another 18 months. But eventually Trump had to settle for and agreed to start renting his apartments t