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How Close Was Donald Trump To The Mob?
The Federalist ^ | 07/28/2015 | David Marcus

Posted on 07/28/2015 12:10:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Donald Trump is running for president. Many believed or hoped that the Donald’s latest foray into national politics was nothing more than a public-relations move, not a serious attempt to reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

But now that Trump holds the lead in national polls, as well as polls in Iowa and New Hampshire, it’s time to take his campaign seriously. Media outlets like Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal, which are covering Trump’s run as an entertainment story, not a news story, are making a mistake. If Trump wants to be a serious candidate for president, and has the numbers to back it up, he must be vetted like a serious candidate for president. A good place to start is to take a hard look at Trump’s ties to Philadelphia and New York organized-crime families.

Donald Trump’s Connections to Organized Crime

Trump was building his eponymous empire of hotels, casinos, and high rises in the early 1980s in New York City and Atlantic City. In both places, the construction industry was firmly under the thumb of the mafia. And in both places there are literally concrete connections between La Cosa Nostra and Trump’s lavish projects. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston, who has covered Trump for decades, has written a very useful list of questions for Trump. Many focus on his ties to the mob. In addition in his 1992 book, “Trump, The Deals and the Downfall,” author Wayne Barrett lays out a slew of suspicious dealings and associations.

(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; lacosanostra; mafia; mob; trumphiresillegals
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1 posted on 07/28/2015 12:10:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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...no closer than Bill Clinton was.


2 posted on 07/28/2015 12:11:57 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter
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To: SeekAndFind

It never ends does it.


3 posted on 07/28/2015 12:12:18 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: SeekAndFind

How close is Hussein to CPUSA?


4 posted on 07/28/2015 12:12:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

He has in fact donated to the Clintons for crying out loud!


5 posted on 07/28/2015 12:13:18 PM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: SeekAndFind

I smell another law suit. At least threatened.


6 posted on 07/28/2015 12:13:25 PM PDT by McGruff (Eat a snickers...)
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To: SeekAndFind

If they want to open up this can of stink on Trump, I predict Trump will then open up the whole of the political establisment’s links with the mob. Then it will need to be “pitchfork time”!


7 posted on 07/28/2015 12:14:07 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (No white, no black,no slave or free,just washed in the red that Messiah bled!)
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To: SeekAndFind
. If Trump wants to be a serious candidate for president, and has the numbers to back it up, he must be vetted like a serious candidate for president.

You mean like Obie wan Nairobi (from the 1/2 dark side) was?

8 posted on 07/28/2015 12:14:14 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter
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To: SeekAndFind

Closer than the Kennedy family?


9 posted on 07/28/2015 12:14:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: SeekAndFind

Should be asking how close two NY governors named Cuomo are/were. Bet it’s a lot closer than Trump.


10 posted on 07/28/2015 12:15:32 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: SeekAndFind

Quick, somebody produces the “9 finga” Rhambo pic.

Is that enough vetting for Obama?


11 posted on 07/28/2015 12:16:30 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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Not close.

His sister is a Senior United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and he is a friend of Rudy Giuliani.

12 posted on 07/28/2015 12:16:37 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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Anyone that does business in New York or New Jersey has to deal with the Mafia - the bigger your business the more the mob wants to become your partner.

“Nice casino there - have many fires?”

“Certainly would be a shame to see such a nice casino have union troubles so that it never opened.”


13 posted on 07/28/2015 12:16:42 PM PDT by JackOfVA
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s turning out that the Mob is more American than the criminal ‘Rats and GOPee these dwys.


14 posted on 07/28/2015 12:16:54 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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“.....he must be vetted like a serious candidate for president.”
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When the hell was Obama vetted?


15 posted on 07/28/2015 12:16:57 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Liberals are like the Taliban and ISIS....destroying cultural icons they don't like.)
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When young Bill Clinton in 1974 made his first run for political office, a crucial $10,000 loan was arranged for him by his uncle, Raymond Clinton. Uncle Raymond has been tied by Clinton biographer Roger Morris to the Hot Springs Mafia.

But it was not until 1984, when Clinton was elected for a second term as Governor of Arkansas, that Mob money really started pouring in. “That was the election when the Mob really came into Arkansas politics, the dog-track and racetrack boys, the payoff people who saw a good thing,” a former U.S. Attorney told Roger Morris. “It wasn’t just Bill Clinton and it went beyond our old Dixie Mafia, which was penny-ante by comparison. This was eastern and and West Coast crime money that noticed the possibilities just like the legitimate corporations did.”

Among the “legitimate corporations” that noticed the possibilities with the rapidly ascending governor thirsting for power and money were front corporations for the intelligence services of the People’s Republic of China. The Lippo empire came to Arkansas that year.

By then, Bill Clinton’s ties to organized crime had become well- known. His half-brother Roger Clinton was convicted of cocaine distribution in association with Mob figure and Clinton money man Dan Lasater.

In the years that followed, Arkansas became a major cocaine trans-shipment point for the Mafia, crossing paths with the famous CIA Contra resupply operation at Mena.

Bill Clinton had found a most successful formula in U.S. politics: financial backing from a coalition of organized crime and hostile foreign governments.

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/mena.htm


16 posted on 07/28/2015 12:17:01 PM PDT by McGruff (Eat a snickers...)
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You want close? John Kennedy needed the union vote to get elected. The unions were controlled by the mob. Still are. The mob rallied the unions to vote for JFK. Then when JFK got elected he appointed Bobby as Attorney General and Bobby went after the mob.

The gangsters didn't appreciate it since they felt the Kennedy's owed them. When JFK got whacked some felt that is was by the mob for this very reason.

17 posted on 07/28/2015 12:17:27 PM PDT by LouAvul (There is no more GOP. There is RAT, and RAT-lite.)
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18 posted on 07/28/2015 12:17:34 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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Here's a tweet that the author of this hit piece sent out, yesterday....

David Marcus ‏@BlueBoxDave 18h18 hours ago
Tomorrow I settle the family business. #TrumpIsGoingDown
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Really classy guy you've dug up, there. He seems to have a hatred for all things Trump. Wonder if he knows George Will.

19 posted on 07/28/2015 12:17:38 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer - Sun Tzu - Art of War


20 posted on 07/28/2015 12:17:51 PM PDT by DannyTN
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