Literary tweeters have been having a field day about Trump lawyer Giuliani booking a landscaping store for a press conference about alleged voter fraud.
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Godfather Trump: “Talk with Rudy”
Trump didn’t have to explicitly use the word “bribe.” Others understood what he wanted and carried out his will. Puzo in “The Godfather” describes how this works.
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Giuliani, a Kiplingesque Fortune Hunter
Rudy Giuliani resembles the fortune hunters in Kipling’s “The Man Who Would Be King.”
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Brecht on Speaking Truth to Power
Monday A Bertolt Brecht poem came to mind when Retired Navy Admiral William H. McRaven came to the defense of former CIA Director John Brennan, stripped of his security clearance by a Donald Trump angry at his criticisms. Vox has the story of what happened: The man who led the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in […]
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Will “The Fat Man” Sell Out Jared?
Sounding like a character in “The Maltese Falcon,” Rudy Giuliani declared that Jared Kushner is “disposable.”
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