The controversial attorney Roy Cohn, who served as chief counsel for Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) and the House Unamerican Activities Committee during the 1950s and went on to represent a young Donald Trump during the 1970s, died of AIDS-related complications on August 2, 1986. But 38 years later, Cohn remains a major inspiration to Trump, now 77, at a time when he is facing four criminal indictments. Author Kai Bird, who is writing a book on Cohn, discusses that inspiration in an essay/op-ed published by the New York Times on Tuesday, May 28 — the day closing arguments in Trump’s crimin…