FROM LEFT: Donald Trump, New York Mayor Ed Koch and Roy Cohn attend the Trump Tower opening in October 1983 in New York City. (Sonia Moskowitz/Getty Images)A few minutes before the sun rose over Mar-a-Lago, President Trump was up, thumbing a series of tweets about Barack Obama and some of the darker days of 20th century American history. In a series of tweets, President Trump accused former President Barack Obama of wiretapping him in October during the late stages of the presidential election campaign, but offered no evidence to support the allegation. Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. His lifelong attorney and mentor — Roy Cohn, one of the men who helped mold Trump into Trump — was, as one author called it, Joseph McCarthy's sidekick.

Source: Washington Post March 04, 2017 18:29 UTC