The Donald Trump Story You're Not Hearing: He has done business with major organized-crime figures

[CousinIT]

While there are some financial subjects on which the media has dared to grill the billionaire — ABC’s George Stephanopoulos last month got Trump to deliver a blunt “no” when he asked about the Republican nominee-apparent’s repeated refusal to release his recent tax returns, something every other recent presidential candidate has done — there has been remarkably little interest shown in some of Trump’s less-than-savory connections.

One of the exceptions is Johnston, who, over the course of 27 years, has had ample occasion to pay attention to Trump’s finances and mob ties. He was not the first investigative reporter to do so. In 1992, Johnston favorably reviewed the longtime Village Voice reporter Wayne Barrett’s highly unauthorized biography, Trump: The Deals and the Downfall, which, in Johnston’s words, “asserts that throughout his adult life, Donald Trump has done business with major organized-crime figures and performed favors for their associates.” As Barrett said not long after Trump declared for the presidency last year, Trump’s life “intertwines with the underworld.” Barrett updates his treatment of Trump in a new digital edition called Trump, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Deals, the Downfall, the Reinvention.

Barrett’s quote appeared in a July 31, 2015, CNN online piece by investigative reporter Chris Frates, who added:

The allegations are getting new scrutiny as Trump runs for president, largely on his record as a successful and extraordinarily wealthy businessman. As Trump cements his leads atop the polls, questions about how he made his billions, and who helped him make them, are starting to take center stage.

While the story ran on CNN’s website, it never got any air time on the cable network. I tried to ask Frates why his investigation didn’t get onto TV, but didn’t hear back from him. In any event, nearly 11 months later, those questions about Trump’s financial life have still not reached that elusive center stage. The question is why.

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Roy Cohn introduced Trump to some of his other clients.

[global1]

2. Has Organized Crime Taken Over Our Government?.....

Has the mob gone legit and gone into politics? Has the mob slowly infiltrated the Repug Party? Is the Repug Party just a new name for the mob and organized crime?

What a better way to control things and look like everything is above board.

Could it be that Trump is the new 'godfather'?

[femmocrat]

3. I remember reading about his mob ties in Atlantic City some time ago.

Here is just one of many articles: http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-dealt-with-a-series-of-people-who-had-mob-ties-1472736922

If people only rely on TV news, they would never learn anything.

[CousinIT]

8. I'm sharing that. At this point it's clear the media is CHOOSING

to totally ignore this.

[RobinA]

9. I Figured Everybody

took it for granted he had unsavory business ties and just didn't care. The guy does real estate in NYC, north Jersey and Atlantic City for f*** sake, there's no way he HASN'T done business with crime.

[Mc Mike]

4. I'm reading David Cay Johnston's The Making of Trump now.

A ton of good info on mob ties in it.

[Orsino]

5. When you're a business fuck-up, you can't be too picky about partners. n/t

[heaven05]

6. if ameriKKKan media

had cared about these truths instead of profits and giving millions of dollars of free air time to this clown soon to be Racist-in Chief, he wouldn't be in the wings with steve bannon et al. ready to turn our pockets inside out. NO ONE is brave enough to stand up to the new fuhrer....seen during the campaign and since his nomination and victory....

[gratuitous]

7. Apparently Donnie Littlefingers doesn't want to talk about Joey No Socks

So that will be the end of it. After all, somebody in the media asked the Trump team about a mobster's close ties to Trump, but the team didn't get back to the media, so that will be the end of it. Something else will pop up on the horizon, and all this palaver about Trump and the mob will simply dry up and blow away. Nothing to see here. Asked and answered. Nobody cares about it. What can the popular media possibly do?