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Who's who in the Godfather version of Trump's White House

Trump is head of family in the same way that Marlon Brando's Vito Corleone was the head of his clan

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Martin Carter | The Conversation
The never-ending scandals surrounding the Trump administration reached hysterical levels recently with the allegation that in 2016 Trump’s eldest son, Donald Jr., met with Russians allegedly linked with the Kremlin to secure damaging information against the Clinton campaign.
The media reacted by publishing a series of pieces that compared Trump’s son to another troubled scion of a great family, Fredo Corleone, brilliantly played by John Cazale in the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy.

Fredo is the runt of the Corleone litter – lacking the

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