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Vera Bergengruen and Brian Bennett’s Nov. 11 cover story, about President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, left reader Eugene Ely of San Jose, Calif., horrified by a dynamic in which he sees Giuliani and Trump “feeding off of each other and egging each host Stephen Colbert joked that the image of Giuliani on the cover, a photograph by Spencer Heyfron, would have made a scary Halloween mask, but others, like Leo Latonick of Severna Park, Md., thought the picture was unfairly unflattering compared with the “leader-like” photos of Democratic presidential candidates on previous 2019 covers.

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