If you thought that Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney singing from the same electoral choirbook last week was a political head-turner, wait to you see who The Apprentice director Ali Abbasi is linking up with. Proving that political and artistic bedfellows can be very unpredictable, Abbasi reposted some praise the film and one of its stars Jeremy Strong received today from Donald Trump acolyte and ex-Richard Nixon operative Roger Stone : The unlikely positive feedback from amateur film critic Stone comes just days before the controversial movie on the influences and forces behind the former and perhaps future president’s rise in 1970s NYC opens nationwide on October 11. Ex-Joe McCarthy chief counsel, the ruthless Cohn was very well connected in GOP circles despite numerous run-ins with the law over his life.
His “attack, attack,” “deny, deny” and always claim victory tactics clearly found a wiling and absorbing protégé in the ambitious second son of real estate mogul Fred Trump. That the former Apprentice TV show host dumped Cohn at the end of his life in the mid-1980s as the closeted gay lawyer was dying of AIDS-related ailments is terribly unsurprising. In true Cohn fashion, the Trump campaign earlier this year threatened legal action against Abbasi’s Strong and Sebastian Stan starring film after its Cannes Film Festival debut.
Specifically, the campaign objected to a scene showing Stan’s Trump sexually assaulting his then wife Ivana. The Trump campaign’s Dhi.