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Above all, Trump learned one very big thing from Cohn: that the veneer of morality in the American upper class is very thin. Cohn proved conclusively that there is no limit to its tolerance for corruption. Trump got that message—and so did Jeffrey Epstein. —Fintan O’Toole, “Devils in America,"The New York Review of Books, Oct. 8, 2026, 12.

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