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    Trump's attacks on Biden follow a playbook he's practiced for more than 30 years

    by Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times Oct 11, 2019 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON - As he watches President Donald Trump's relentless accusations against former Vice President Joe Biden, Hank Sheinkopf, a New York political operative who has known Trump for decades, feels he's once again viewing a play he's seen many times before.

    In the 1980s, when New York City officials opposed Trump on some major real estate developments, Trump went on the attack against then-Mayor Ed Koch, describing himself as the victim of a corrupt city administration even as the evidence suggested that Trump, in reality, was dodging a big share of his company's tax bill.

    Koch continued fuming about their feud for years, writing in one essay that became public only after his death in 2013 that it was "incomprehensible" to him that some voters regarded Trump "as a folk hero."

    Yet they did then. And many more do now.

    Trump's willingness to attack opponents, often

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