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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA POLITICO article to read in April 2024 if you missed it in May 2016: Just What Were Trump's Ties to the Mob?
Given the developing story around the jury pool in Donald Trump's criminal trial, now is a good time to read up on Trump's history. I suspect that only a small percentage of U.S. adults know the sordid details.
From David Cay Johnston:
[link:https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-mob-organized-crime-213910/|]
No other candidate for the White House this year has anything close to Trumps record of repeated social and business dealings with mobsters, swindlers, and other crooks. Professor Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian, said the closest historical example would be President Warren G. Harding and Teapot Dome, a bribery and bid-rigging scandal in which the interior secretary went to prison. But even that has a key difference: Hardings associates were corrupt but otherwise legitimate businessmen, not mobsters and drug dealers.
This is part of the Donald Trump story that few know. As Barrett wrote in his book, Trump didnt just do business with mobbed-up concrete companies: he also probably met personally with [Anthony] Salerno at the townhouse of notorious New York fixer Roy Cohn, in a meeting recounted by a Cohn staffer who told Barrett she was present. This came at a time when other developers in New York were pleading with the FBI to free them of mob control of the concrete business.
From the public record and published accounts like that one, its possible to assemble a clear picture of what we do know. The picture shows that Trumps career has benefited from a decades-long and largely successful effort to limit and deflect law enforcement investigations into his dealings with top mobsters, organized crime associates, labor fixers, corrupt union leaders, con artists and even a one-time drug trafficker whom Trump retained as the head of his personal helicopter service.
JT45242
(2,284 posts)Look at where hys luans came from. Who bought and sold apartments to launder money, lots of ties to Russian mob which all tie back to Putin
Wounded Bear
(58,685 posts)edhopper
(33,604 posts)Does no follow up.
mopinko
(70,178 posts)PlutosHeart
(1,283 posts)What was he building in 1975 when Hoffa went missing?
CBHagman
(16,987 posts)...as the criminal trial in Manhattan goes forward.