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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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To: sf4dubya

I think we know who the Bushbot trolls are, around here. Project much?


81 posted on 07/28/2015 12:56:37 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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To: Jane Long

Good sleuthing, JL...good sleuthing.


82 posted on 07/28/2015 12:56:39 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: gov_bean_ counter

or Pelosi...


83 posted on 07/28/2015 12:57:03 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: SeekAndFind

No closer than the polidiots in DC are to the DC mob.


85 posted on 07/28/2015 12:58:40 PM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: Jane Long

Alan Marks, eBay Inc’s senior vice president for communications, strenuosly denied Marcus was fired.

“The story is flat out wrong,” Marks said.

When Marcus, a motivated and highly intelligent coder by trade, announced he was leaving the CEO job for a VP position at Facebook, there were more than a few raised eyebrows because the change was perceived not as a big move up but a slight move down.

In his roughly three years as PayPal’s president, Marcus ruffled more than a few feathers when he sent a heated and caustic email to all of PayPal’s 14,000 employees.

In that email, Marcus slammed employees for not using PayPal’s mobile app he helped introduce and said that if workers weren’t passionate about the company’s mission they should find another job. Silicon Valley had a field day when the email was revealed.

The email, in part, read:

It’s been brought to my attention that when testing paying with mobile at Cafe 17 last week, some of you refused to install the PayPal app (!!?!?!!), and others didn’t even remember their PayPal password. That’s unacceptable to me, and the rest of my team, everyone at PayPal should use our products where available. That’s the only way we can make them better, and better.

Reactions in the Valley to the email ranged from supportive to outright dismissive.


86 posted on 07/28/2015 1:01:54 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 (Send 'slob boy of the oval office' back to Kenya ASAP, and save America...)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

...or Harry Reid.


87 posted on 07/28/2015 1:04:40 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (Aim small, Miss small.)
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To: hoosiermama

Let’s see, he’s a clown, rapist and now close to the mob. Got it!!! Donald sure is a busy fellow.


89 posted on 07/28/2015 1:05:28 PM PDT by Catsrus (WWWW)
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To: SeekAndFind

Am I supposed to be impressed by this? Outraged maybe? If so you and panty waist who wrote this screed are in for a big disappointment. I’d rather vote for Tony Soprano than Jeb Bush.


90 posted on 07/28/2015 1:06:27 PM PDT by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Din Maker
Having close ties to The Mob didn’t hurt JFK.

well at least not until he made that trip to Dallas...

92 posted on 07/28/2015 1:07:50 PM PDT by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: RoosterRedux
Bill responded, "Funny you should ask...I saw my first flying saucer right after I married Hillary."

Hillary has improved somewhat in the ash tray hurling....hypersonics now:


93 posted on 07/28/2015 1:09:44 PM PDT by spokeshave (If an illegal alien is undocumented immigrant a drug dealer is an unlicensed pharmacist)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

next week child molestation......


94 posted on 07/28/2015 1:12:29 PM PDT by GotMojo
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To: pgkdan

Having close ties to The Mob didn’t hurt JFK.

well at least not until he made that trip to Dallas...
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You might have a point there. My wife is in total agreement with you. I’m thinking, however, that the CIA had something to do with his assassination. Whoever did it, where are they now when we REALLY need them?


95 posted on 07/28/2015 1:13:07 PM PDT by Din Maker (GOP Gov. Susana Martinez of New Mexico for VP)
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To: Din Maker

FR needs a like button...


96 posted on 07/28/2015 1:14:51 PM PDT by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Jane Long

Just another Cat Nip thread. :)


97 posted on 07/28/2015 1:16:18 PM PDT by Clyde5445
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To: pgkdan

LOL....


98 posted on 07/28/2015 1:16:42 PM PDT by Din Maker (GOP Gov. Susana Martinez of New Mexico for VP)
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To: Paladin2

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

Sadly you are right.

I’d go back to the Mob any day over our current Islamic Fundamentalist administration


99 posted on 07/28/2015 1:16:43 PM PDT by varyouga
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To: SeekAndFind

It appears that Trump does his best to stay above reproach. Of course, his enemies, both GOPe and Democrats, will accuse him of anything and everything in an attempt to besmirch him. I’ll bet his junk-yard-dog lawyers are standing by just waiting to pounce on every attack. It’s gonna be interesting.

(Personally I’d prefer an honorable mobster than the quislings we have in office now.)


100 posted on 07/28/2015 1:16:45 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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