I'm really interested in what makes Trump such a shrewd political opperator. I think it is down to his friendships with three people in particular: 1.) Roger Stone, 2.) Roy Cohn, and 3.) Richard Nixon. If Trump needed to learn what the swamp was and how the swamp worked so that he could beat the swamp, he could do no better than learn lessons from the successes and many failures of these three men.

I found a Vanity Fair article that described how Roy Cohn introduced Roger Stone to Donald Trump:

“I went to see him,” Stone told me, “and Trump said, ‘How do you get Reagan to 270 electoral votes?’ He was very interested in the mechanics—a political junkie. Then he said, ‘O.K., we are in. Go see my father.’ ” Out Stone went to Avenue Z, in Coney Island, and met Fred Trump in his office, which was crowded with cigar-store Indians. “True to his word, I got $200,000. The checks came in $1,000 denominations, the maximum donation you could give. All of these checks were written to ‘Reagan For President.’ It was not illegal—it was bundling. Check trading.” For Reagan’s state headquarters, the Trumps found Stone and the campaign a decrepit town house next to the ‘21’ Club. Stone was now, like Donald Trump, inside the Cohn tent.

I also found a New York Post article that described Trump's and Nixon's previously unknown relationship:

“I think that you are one of this country’s great men, and it was an honor to spend an evening with you,” Trump wrote to Nixon after the two were spotted together at the 21 Club in Midtown Manhattan.

Interestingly, both these articles mention the 21 Club. I also recently listened to a Whitney Webb and Dark Journalist interview about her new book(s) One Nation Under Blackmail Volume 1 & 2. Warning: Whitney clearly explains that Roy Cohn was involved in Blackmail opperations that involved minors. Epstein discussed at 49:00. Roy Cohn discussed at 53:00.