2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhy Aren't Trump's Mob Ties A Bigger Story? It seems bigger than Clinton's emails.
Trumps career has benefited from a decades-long and largely successful effort to limit and deflect law enforcement investigations into his dealings with top mobsters, organized crime associates, labor fixers, corrupt union leaders, con artists and even a one-time drug trafficker whom Trump retained as the head of his personal helicopter service.
Johnston gives us stories like this:
In Atlantic City, Trump built on property where mobsters controlled parts of the adjoining land needed for parking. He paid $1.1 million for about a 5,000-square-foot lot that had been bought five years earlier for just $195,000. The sellers were Salvy Testa and Frank Narducci Jr., a pair of hitmen for Atlantic City mob boss Nicky Scarfo who were known as the Young Executioners.
There's a lot more where that came from, including a summary of the many shady aspects of Trump Tower's construction (concrete purchased from mob bosses, mobsters helping to conceal Trump's use of undocumented immigrant demolition workers, etc., etc.).
But stories about Trump and the mob never go viral. Major media organizations don't pick up on them. Michael Isikoff wrote a story about Trump and the mob back in March and that didn't break through, either.
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/05/why-arent-trumps-mob-ties-bigger-story
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)The sooner California is over the better.
frylock
(34,825 posts)then I suppose you have a point.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)busted! Oh wait.
onecaliberal
(32,950 posts)scscholar
(2,902 posts)is a serious problem? He was literally working with the mob.
onecaliberal
(32,950 posts)read your email when you're secretary of state.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)and Sanders' supporters.
Besides, do you really think that the potential of having a President with known criminal associations is worse than what might have happened, if ...?
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,718 posts)Nice to know
gordianot
(15,249 posts)Hillary's supporters are probably right this is a useless exercise if you expect indictment. I would like to see it follow to a conclusion much like the Primary and convention and yes I know how math works. Some of the emails I have read are clear fodder for Republican exploitation without any indictments.
I might add here I was completely wrong as to how the Government eventually handled the Bundy occupation. As to Trump having mob ties in the contrarian universe from which he sprang forth that is an asset.
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)only the Corleone family could honestly love.
gordianot
(15,249 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)It seems kinda overrated.
RandySF
(59,533 posts)StarTrombone
(188 posts)Especially in construction and real estate, in a large Democratic Party run urban area without dealing with mob-controlled unions
You can thank Hollyweird and TV for that BS
I mean the myth that Jimmy Hoffa is buried in concrete at some construction site doesn't help either
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Mob connections are a GE issue.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)4tth estate, about 1996 or so, maybe 1998. There is no money in that, But my friends in the CBC have.
Oh and by the way, they matter, to the same level, but for different reasons. National security is not chopped liver. But if you want a funny story, the mob helped the US win WW II... so that might be part of it too.
Dem2
(8,168 posts)let's get him locked in before we destroy him.
amborin
(16,631 posts)Autumn
(45,120 posts)How do people not see that's what the media does? It amazes me when people expect the media to actually inform anyone about any issue. it's a game they play and people fall for it. It's like telling a baby I got your nose.