Posted on 08/11/2015 8:19:33 PM PDT by topher
(CNN)Donald Trump's glittering empire of New York skyscrapers and Atlantic City casinos have long had a darker side, allegations that the mob helped build them.
Trump's alleged ties to New York and Philadelphia crime families go back decades and have been recounted in a book, newspapers and government records.
"The mob connections of Donald are extraordinarily extensive," New York investigative journalist Wayne Barrett told CNN in an interview.
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I think that’s kinda what I said to you.
I never said Trump was owned by anyone. Don’t be so defensive I was actually standing up for Trump on this one.
I had a cousin who was undertaker for the MOB in Albany.
When I was 8 years old, I met a retired MOB boss in 1940`s-
I guess I can`t run for president.
So how does that make him an insurance policy for Jeb, or an asset to Hillary?
The Clintons and Bushes are one in the same.
Bush had his turn, then Clinton had his turn, then W had his. Now it’s Hillary’s turn, but if for some reason she can’t win, then Jeb will be there to carry on.
So how does Trump help that scenario? He's killing Bush.
Are you saying the media doesn’t make sense?
How dare you!
You forgot “Chamber of Commerce” and GOP too.
Nah, I'm saying all the Conservatives that say Trump is a stalking horse don't make sense. They're supposed to think in bigger chunks than a soundbite.
if you do business in New York, is there a way to do it without coming into contact with the mob
60 years ago I used to wade in the same pool my older siblings swam in. I was in water that came up to my knees. I still managed to get into trouble.
That’s how I see some FReepers today.
Every chance they get, they toss something on the forum with gasps of disbelief. “Have you folks heard ABOUT THIS?”
Lets see a show of hands that think a person running a $9 billion dollar enterprise out of New York could possibly conduct his business without coming in contact with the Mob?
What we have in the White Mosque right now makes the Mafia look like Angels.
How do you know they’re ‘conservatives’?
Guess from this ol picture Mr T isn’t the only one to have a relationship with the Clinton’s.
Bush and Clinton
Sitting at a tea
......ING
First come 41
42 -43
No more of either one for me!
Wow...
Think about that. What was Clinton doing running in those circles in 1983?
Here’s some yokel whose mom was a nurse anesthesiologist, and Bill was trotting around the nation like a young jet setting Donald Trump.
How?
Who was bank-rolling this little prick?
“This shows you how deep the relationship between the Clintons and Bushes are. I was duped by W. Once.”
Yes indeed. That was way before Mena Airport.
Yawn. Wonder what next to trot out to discredit Trump. Actually good to get all of this out now so it all runs its course before he directly faces the Democrats.
[[. . .a president with Mafia connections?
Isn’t that what we have now?]]
No. Now we have a president with Muslim connections.
Not the issue.
I just want to know how it's supposed to work so I can understand why anyone who says that is afraid of him, and what's more, says I should be afraid of him.
I hope it’s not true, but all I can think is that Trump must be scaring someone a lot because look at how hard the powers that be are trying to bury him.
I have to laugh at the hypocracy of the media to go after Trump about the Mob. Lord Above, the Democrat party, Unions, Cook County, - the Dems are the Mob.
Donald Trump once had a Dukes of Hazzard model car with a confederate flag on the roof.
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