Heard In The White House On July 25, 2019 — "Hello Central, Give Me Zalensky"

In the time of the Watergate impeachment crisis, we had the "smoking gun" of audio recordings of conversations in the Oval Office and in our fevered present day, we have a "perfect" phone call from the Oval Office to the Mariyinsky Palace. It was the typical phone prank so loved by The LK (Lyin; King) who made a regular practice of calling reporters and pretending to be "John Barron" with some inside information about The LK. In the most recent phone prank associated with The LK, the fool pretended to be a mob boss making an extortionate phone call. If this is (fair & balanced) use of historical analogy, so be it.

[x The Nation]
Trump Says Ukraine Call Was "Perfectly Fine and Routine"
By Calvin Trillin (The Deadline Poet)


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Biden Cage Calvin candidate children considered course Daniels Deadline described discussed done else everything feather fine habits hushed kept machine making manage mine nest office oppressed paid perfectly Poet routine routine--and scene son stay Stormy strayed Trillin Trump Ukraine well-oiled

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Yes, of course, I discussed Biden’s son,
And, like everything else I have done
As I manage this well-oiled machine,
It was perfectly fine and routine.

Yes, of course, Stormy Daniels was paid
To stay hushed on which candidate strayed.
And that kept her from making a scene.
It was perfectly fine and routine.

Use this office to feather my nest?
Cage the children described as oppressed?
Those are some of the habits of mine
Now considered routine—and they’re fine. ###

[Calvin Trillin, the author of Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Election in Rhyme (2008), is The Nation’s “Deadline Poet.” He has been acclaimed in fields of writing that are remarkably diverse. As someone who has published solidly reported pieces in The New Yorker for 40 years, he has been called “perhaps the finest reporter in America.” His wry commentary on the national scene and his books chronicling his adventures as a “happy eater” have earned him renown as “a classic American humorist.” His About Alice (2006)—a 2007 New York Times bestseller that was hailed as “a miniature masterpiece”—followed two other best-selling memoirs, Remembering Denny (1993) and Messages from My Father (1996). Trillin received a BA (English) from Yale University (CT).]

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