Posted on 03/07/2016 12:24:26 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump had a long relationship with a reputed New Jersey mobster, who gambled at the real estate billionaire's Atlantic City casino, flew on Trump's helicopter, and partied on his yacht, the gangster's daughter reportedly claims.
Trump has denied having a personal relationship with Robert LiButti, who was banned in 1991 from New Jersey casinos for his ties to the late Mafia boss John Gotti, Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent at Yahoo News reports.
That same year, Trump's hotel casino in Atlantic City, the Trump Plaza, was fined $200,000 by New Jersey regulators for violating anti-discrimination laws involving complaints linked to LiButti's racist behavior inside the casino. Trump wasn't held personally liable for the discrimination violations, and there's no indication he was ever questioned in the 1991 investigation, Isikoff notes.
"I have heard he is a high roller, but if he was standing here in front of me, I wouldn't know what he looked like," Trump told the Philadelphia Inquirer in February 1991.
But Edith Creamer, the daughter of the late LiButti, who died in 2014, refutes that.
"He's a liar," she told Yahoo News in the course of two telephone interviews.
"Of course he knew him. I flew in the [Trump] helicopter with [Trump's then wife] Ivana and the kids. My dad flew it up and down [to Atlantic City]. My 35th birthday party was at the Plaza and Donald was there. After the party, we went on his boat, his big yacht. I like Trump, but it pisses me off that he denies knowing my father. That hurts me."
Yet she said she's still a Trump supporter in his White House bid.
"I'm voting for Trump," she tells Yahoo News. "He'll change the world — I think we need that."
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Will Ted Cruz apologize to Trump?
If the money is right a big spender in an open establishment requested it, so he got use of it. Perks.
Hey, I saw Robert LiButti in a local Safeway grocery store so obviously he has a personal relationship with the owner. /s
You get that kind of treatment when they know you’re going to lose a lot of money. Go to Vegas and drop a few hundred grand a few trips and they’ll send a private jet for your third trip.
Cruz has gone to the Dark Side Lets talk about his Billionaire Donor , Mercer?
I’d rather have Trump go to a party with this guy than have someone who is getting all their campaign money from Goldman Sach’s golden sacks.
March 6, 1991 (extracts). This speech has often been cited as the US administration’s principal policy statement on the new order in the Middle East following the expulsion of Iraqi forces from Kuwait.
Now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order. In the words of Winston Churchill, a "world order" in which "the principles of justice and fair play ... protect the weak against the strong ..." A world where the United Nations, freed from cold war stalemate, is poised to fulfil the historic vision of its founders. A world in which freedom and respect for human rights find a home among all nations.
Oh my goodness. A mobster gambled at one of Trump’s NJ casinos. Heavens to Betsy. Now I MUST change my vote. Such horrors I have never heard before.
Yes, but when did he stop beating his wife?
Remember, whatever the FBI, IRS and other government agencies have on Trump will be leaked by the Obama administration sometime around October. Let’s hope it isn’t too damaging.
If so there should be pictures of the mob guy posing with Trump.
Go Trump Go!-)
You’re kidding right. When you’re a big gambler the casinos will fly you anywhere.
If anything, it gives him an understanding into Putin’s thinking.
On the owner’s private helicopter, or one owned by the casino? Is Trump also shuttling high rollers with his personal 757, or a corporate jet?
I have no idea whether this story is true or not.
Here is the problem, if Trump wins the nomination there will be these nightly for the entire campaign. This is the downside of not being a politician, you don’t worry with you you hang out with. That is why many think Trump will be easy to defeat.
A mob guy is a huge step up from the slimy weasel lawyer filthbag traitors in deecee.
Trump gives plenty of people rides in his helicopter. In Iowa he gave all kinds of kids rides.
Let’s all get our pearls and CLUTCH them tightly!
Isakoff is a lfet wing piece of crap who authored a number of article highly critical of American forces in Iraq. Like “torture” in Abu Ghrab prison, tearing up Korans and flushing them down the toilette. Isakoff and his credibility and objectives need to be flushed down the toilette.
Big Casinos will own a fleet of aircraft all kinds. They will fly big-time gamblers home to change clothes everybody knows that. Except you evidently.
Trump secretly married to Obama.
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