Now, this is probably an oppo dump. (Remember, Michael Isikoff was the conduit for many Clinton stories that were later debunked.) But I’m not surprised that Donald Trump would be associated with mob types:
In a bombshell new report, Yahoo reporter Michael Isikoff, who was a key figure in exposing the Monica Lewinsky-Bill Clinton scandal, writes that the daughter of a reputed New Jersey mobster says her dad had a long, cozy relationship with Trump. She told Isikoff her father, Robert LiButti, gambled heavily in Trump’s casino, rode on his helicopter and hung out on his yacht.
Trump has denied in the past and now again that he had any personal relationship, or even recognized the name, with LiButti, who was banned from Atlantic City casinos over his ties to New York mob boss John Gotti.
But LiButti was a well known figure to gaming investigators, who in 1991 investigated and then fined Trump Plaza $200,000 for accommodating LiButti’s desire not to have African Americans or women at his gambling tables.
Nine employees alleged that the casino “repeatedly removed African-Americans and women from craps tables after LiButti, one of the highest-rolling gamblers in the city’s history, loudly complained about their presence when he was playing,” Isikoff wrote in the report.
LiButti was found to have used racist and vulgar language at the craps table, and investigators concluded that Trump Plaza accommodated the high roller by removing blacks and women from his tables.
Nobody who plays on this level is immune from mob influence.
Joe Kennedy was a bootlegger with ties to the Chicago mob which helped JFK win the presidency. (Dead people usually don’t vote.)
Bill Clinton had strong ties to the Dixie Mafia who funded his first run for office. He paid them back with appointments to his administration. Bill also did work for the
Bush Family Mafia by facilitating the CIA drug operation during the Iran-Contra scheme.
Anybody who thinks that people in high places with plenty of money in their pocket isn’t connected to the mob is kidding themselves.
Politics in America has been corrupt from the very first day of the republic.