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'Very nice people', Trump said of the mafia. 'Just don't owe them money'
Source: The Guardian
‘Very nice people’, Trump said of the mafia. ‘Just don’t owe them money’
Trump, who praised the mob in 2013 on David Letterman, has a habit of seeing the good in those deemed beyond the pale
Ed Pilkington in New York
@edpilkington
Wed 2 Oct 2019 06.00 BST
Is Donald Trump behaving like a mafia boss? Adam Schiff, the Democratic chair of the House intelligence committee, thinks so.
Schiff said the way Trump leaned on Ukraine, seeking dirt on political rival Joe Biden was a “classic, mafia-like shakedown”. Many others have made the same comparison.
But it doesn’t take Congress or the Twittersphere to establish Trump’s affinity for the mob. The real estate developer and former reality star has talked about it himself – on late-night TV.
In 2013, three years before Trump’s presidential victory, David Letterman asked him about it bluntly on his CBS talkshow.
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Trump, who praised the mob in 2013 on David Letterman, has a habit of seeing the good in those deemed beyond the pale
Ed Pilkington in New York
@edpilkington
Wed 2 Oct 2019 06.00 BST
Is Donald Trump behaving like a mafia boss? Adam Schiff, the Democratic chair of the House intelligence committee, thinks so.
Schiff said the way Trump leaned on Ukraine, seeking dirt on political rival Joe Biden was a “classic, mafia-like shakedown”. Many others have made the same comparison.
But it doesn’t take Congress or the Twittersphere to establish Trump’s affinity for the mob. The real estate developer and former reality star has talked about it himself – on late-night TV.
In 2013, three years before Trump’s presidential victory, David Letterman asked him about it bluntly on his CBS talkshow.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/02/donald-trump-mafia-letterman-video
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