Sadly and tragically, Donald Trump had close ties to Roy Cohn who, as chief legal counsel to the Senator Joe McCarthy hearings in the 1950s, was part of the "anti-communist, red scare hysteria/witchhunt" in America. This began with the House UnAmerican Activities Committee hearings in 1948 of which Richard Nixon played a part in the Alger Hiss spy "story".
These two events caused a profound paradigm shift in America from the optimism of victory over Nazi Germany with our close ally Russia to cause fear and suspicion of Russians lasting to the modern era Russophobia. Donald Trump came out of that swamp via Roy Cohn and it's why the Russiagate narrative was launched against him; to make sure he stays in that swamp.https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/huac
Sadly and tragically, Donald Trump had close ties to Roy Cohn who, as chief legal counsel to the Senator Joe McCarthy hearings in the 1950s, was part of the "anti-communist, red scare hysteria/witchhunt" in America. This began with the House UnAmerican Activities Committee hearings in 1948 of which Richard Nixon played a part in the Alger Hiss spy "story".
These two events caused a profound paradigm shift in America from the optimism of victory over Nazi Germany with our close ally Russia to cause fear and suspicion of Russians lasting to the modern era Russophobia. Donald Trump came out of that swamp via Roy Cohn and it's why the Russiagate narrative was launched against him; to make sure he stays in that swamp.https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/huac
https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/huac