Mr. Trump’s other mentor was the caustic and conniving McCarthy-era lawyer Roy Cohn, who counseled Mr. Trump never to give in or concede error. “Like Churchill,” is what Mr. Trump would tell staffers when asked what look he was going for. Mr. Trump was able to change the subject by attacking Mr. Obama and floating unsubstantiated theories. Within the White House, aides describe a nearly paralytic inability to tell Mr. Trump that he has erred or gone too far on Twitter. In a recent meeting in the Oval Office, Mr. Cohn was speaking when Mr. Trump interrupted him.

Source: New York Times March 22, 2017 00:57 UTC