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.
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Hey, here's a business idea.
If you are wearing the leather of poodle puppies, why not sell their innards to Planned Parenthood.
I hear they're buying for resale.
Gotta source on that or are you just blowing smoke out your well used fanny?
Down here in the South, we call it the fanny.
Never offends anyone.
But I'll bet you're offended.
Being so heavily trafficked, fanny-wise, of course.
I’m reading and laughing.
You guys are the best.
Nite, nite.
or Dingy Harry
Oops. Should never have taken that picture
Retire? Just getting started
Where was this concern from the MSM with Clinton, Obama, Kennedy.?
But I wonder why the hell aren't I healthy, wealthy, and wise?
I'll sleep well knowing you are carrying the torch!
bump
In many cases, the mob provides things that people want - after hour drinking, untaxed cigarettes, sports betting, etc. This part of the mob business you can take or leave depending on your desire for those products.
Government provides little that people actually want, but rather that which government itself determines people want, and provides it in the most inefficient and wasteful way possible and often prevents private competition for those services (for example, private trash collection where city-run services are a monopoly.) For the most part, therefore, the mob and government are not much different, except government has a better name.
Up at dawn. Afternoon nap and up till midnight
I read and watch movies on Roku until bedtime.
I stay away from FR at nite so I don't make ban-worthy comments when I am tired.
You’ve just revealed you know nothing about my ‘steller’ support for Cruz long before he announced, since, and will till the end....several who do know me would be wuick to say as much.......Like so many you jump to conclusions manufactured in your own mind as soon as anyone might not agree with you or even support what another candidate might or not say.......Tells me your looking for a fight not discussion so we’re done here. Kaput!
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