Trump as Don Corleone: ‘Every time he does somebody a favour … he expects a quid pro quo’ (opens in new tab)

Barbara McQuade’s book is a piercing exposé of how Trump is eroding democracy by turning the US into a mafia state“I believe in America.”So says Amerigo Bonasera, a humble funeral director, in the . As Barbara McQuade recounts at the start of , Bonasera has come to the shadowy office of Vito Corleone to ask him to avenge a brutal attack on his daughter. Ultimately, Corleone agrees, whispering: “Someday, and that day may never come, I’ll call upon you to do a service for me.”