Donald Trump’s ‘perfect call’ taps Mario Puzo playbook


From the Zelensky call transcript: July 2019 telcon Donald Trump to President Zelensky of Ukraine
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“That’s my family; that’s not me.” So Michael Corleone assures his blue-blooded girlfriend, Kay, in one of his character’s persistent moments of self-denial. First expressed in Mario Puza’s pulpy popular novel, a mega best seller published in 1969, the line was famously recycled in (then) newbie director Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic movie in three installments, ...