The United States of America vs Donald J Trump is is no more political than The United States vs John Gotti. The Republican Party put politics into it.

 The hand wringing political machinations over convicting lifetime criminal Donald J. Trump’s one man crime spree is infuriating. 

Trump is a common criminal who happened to chose the Republican Party in his quest to be the biggest criminal of all time. He chose the Republican Party as his criminal yacht because the Democratic Party would not accept him. 

“As Fear City points out, doing business in broad swaths of New York's economy when Trump was a young man meant doing business with the mob. But Trump's main industries—development, casinos, and luxury real estate—were particularly infested with organized crime. And what makes him notable is that he sometimes appeared to do more business with the mafia than was strictly necessary. According to biographer Wayne Barrett, "he went out of his way not to avoid" contacts with the mafia, "but to increase them.”

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“Criminology on Trump delivers a razor-sharp criminological analysis of the dark and illegal activities that Donald Trump pursued to obtain social and political power in the United States.”

Lucky for Donald, he had already accumulated many millions of dollars of inheritance before he started his own business ventures — many of which would go bankrupt. To be exact, Donald Trump has had over 20 businesses go bankrupt, and Trump golf courses have lost more than $315 million over the last two decades.

To illuminate Trump’s failure to create structurally sound and profitable businesses, Barak says that even before Trump’s father died, ‘conventional banking or lending institutions had stopped doing business with Donald, and that Trump had become dependent on the underground economy, money laundering, and syndicated criminals for raising venture capital.’

Mob boss

Donald Trump’s relationship with crime is increasingly obvious when a closer look is taken at the financial performance of his businesses. Barak says that an analysis of his financial records reveals that he used his intelligence and deceit to operate a criminal enterprise.

The parallels between Donald Trump and famous mobsters like Bugsy Siegel and John ‘Teflon Don’ Gotti are not a coincidence, according to Barak’s analysis. Instead, they exhibit the ability for a powerful, albeit maniacal, businessman to exert influence over other people’s behaviour. Symbolically feared for his ruthlessness as a businessman, Trump not only embodies characteristics of famous American mob bosses — authority, charisma, corruption, intelligence, and persuasion — but he has done business with numerous organised-crime figures."

FROM:

Barak, G, (2022) Criminology on Trump. Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)