Arts
‘The Apprentice’ is a look into the rotten underbelly of Trump’s story
By Alexander Minagar | November 5Is there anything surprising left about former President Donald Trump? Ali Abassi, a filmmaker, would say yes. In his latest film, “The Apprentice,” Abassi rakes the muck that is the rotten underbelly of Trump’s formative New York years under the guidance of Roy Cohn, a malignant tumor of a lawyer who lays out three Machiavellian rules to a young and malleable Trump: “Attack, attack, attack,” “admit nothing, deny everything” and “no matter what happens, you claim victory and never admit defeat.”
