American Boogeyman: 4 times the complex closeted story of Roy Cohn was brought to the screen

Image Credits: ‘The Apprentice,’ Briarcliff Entertainment (left) | ‘Angels In America, HBO (top right) | ‘Fellow Travelers,’ Showtime (bottom right)

This weekend, controversial Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice opens in theaters across the country, despite legal troubles and vocal pushback from the MAGA crowd.

The film tells the story of the disgraced former president’s early days as a New York City businessman, largely under the tutelage of notorious American lawyer and prosecutor Roy Cohn.

But “The Man Who Created Trump” was just one of many chapters in the life of the infamous Cohn, a con artist who made a name for himself aiding Senator Joseph McCarthy’s harmful anti-communist fear-mongering in the ’50s, and later worked for the Reagan campaign, while also bribing and blackmailing his

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