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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump and John Gotti of the Mafia had close ties: ex-COO of a Trump casino
Link to tweet
eta: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-mob-organized-crime-213910
and then there's this:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/02/donald-trump-mafia-letterman-video
In 2013, three years before Trumps presidential victory, David Letterman asked him about it bluntly on his CBS talkshow.
Have you ever knowingly done business with organized crime? the host asked.
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You know, growing up in New York and doing business in New York, I would say there might have been one of those characters along the way, but generally speaking I like to stay away from that group.
Then he added: I have met on occasion a few of those people. They happen to be very nice people.
Have you ever knowingly done business with organized crime? the host asked.
snip
You know, growing up in New York and doing business in New York, I would say there might have been one of those characters along the way, but generally speaking I like to stay away from that group.
Then he added: I have met on occasion a few of those people. They happen to be very nice people.
Mafia = very nice people. Okkkkkk. Just like Neo-Nazis = very fine people
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Trump and John Gotti of the Mafia had close ties: ex-COO of a Trump casino (Original Post)
steve2470
Sep 2020
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czarjak
(11,195 posts)1. Fugget about it!
Thekaspervote
(32,606 posts)2. Is this the latest scandalous story to come out?? Okay by me!
dalton99a
(81,073 posts)3. Trump on The Mafia: "They happen to be very nice people"
steve2470
(37,457 posts)4. bingo! nt
chriscan64
(1,789 posts)5. "I wish them well"
"Capone should have never released his tax returns."