This is exactly what the mob was doing with the unions and all sorts of businesses back in the day. Trump knew a lot of those guys through Roy Cohn. The mob never really went under, just the stupid ones like Gotti that did their business in the open. The smart ones met guys like Cohn who could wash their money and put it to work to legitimize them. They formed a little chrysalis, an organized crime/politics incubation chamber, and what emerged was Donald Trump.
I think it’s mainly about one thing: the US president is using his power to manipulate the stock market to enrich himself and his partners.
How did I come to this conclusion? Because he has done this repeatedly over the past six months.
This is organized crime, not politics.
He also bragged about them doing it on camera. So there is that.
This is exactly what the mob was doing with the unions and all sorts of businesses back in the day. Trump knew a lot of those guys through Roy Cohn. The mob never really went under, just the stupid ones like Gotti that did their business in the open. The smart ones met guys like Cohn who could wash their money and put it to work to legitimize them. They formed a little chrysalis, an organized crime/politics incubation chamber, and what emerged was Donald Trump.