My kingdom for a horse!

[Clamoring over the new Wolff's tell-all] temporarily elbowed Mueller’s Russia investigation out of the spotlight until Thursday evening when the New York Times delivered a report that added a layer of patina to the obstruction of justice case Mueller is thought to be building. According to the Times’ Michael Schmidt, last March Trump had his top White House lawyer lobby Attorney General Jeff Sessions to keep him from recusing himself in the growing Russia investigation.

The most striking quotation collected by Schmidt appeared before the jump. Frustrated by the fact that Session had gone wobbly on him, Trump asked, “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” Cohn, who was once described as a “legal executioner” by journalist Ken Auletta, represented Trump from the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s until the one-time Joe McCarthy henchman died of AIDS. “All I can tell you is he’s been vicious to others in his protection of me,” Trump once told Vanity Fair’s Marie Brenner about the lawyer. It’s here that Wolff’s unrestrained depiction of the incompetent Trump dovetails with the scandal that has vexed his presidency from its first days: Trump is surrounded by people who do his bidding, even as they mock him, but what he has prayed for in vain is a ruthless lawyer who would defend him from his enemies and save him from himself, just the way Cohn always did.

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If Cohn were still alive, perhaps he would extract from the Wolff book a composite of his client from which to mount a defense. [...] Cohn, who liked to punch back twice as hard—usually with a countersuit or salacious tabloid allegation—would think of something.

  Politico

The documentary "Get Me Roger Stone" has some bits in it about Cohn. The man was a soulless, morality-free monster. Even Roger Stone, who has no redeeming features, doesn't attain Cohn's depths of depravity.

Despite Wolff’s heavy reliance on anonymous sources and his reputation in some corners of fact-fudging, almost nobody who doesn’t owe their paycheck to the president has persuasively argued that the book distorts. Some of his findings might be threadbare but the consensus verdict that’s forming transcends ideology. National Review’s Jonah Goldberg writes, “The president is a man out of his depth, propped up by a staff and a party that needs to believe more than what the facts will support.” In the Atlantic, James Fallows declares that Trump’s ignorance and ineptitude have for some time been an “open secret.” You know it, Congress knows it, everybody knows it, Fallows laments.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.