If John Gotti had a TV series called, The Made Man, Could he have been president? John Gotti, not Trump saying “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody" and not "lose any voters." Is that U.S. democracy in 2023?

Trump who is himself a racist antisemite but also a conman who recognizes other conmen attached himself to the mega church conmen of the fiercely right wing anti semite racist anti-democracy White evangelicals. 

And those racist antisemite Republicans sucked up by Trump are most of the Republican Party base & most of the MAGA red hat Republicans now in control of the Republican Party. 

There’s something about not particularly religious Americans who like Trump that may have been overbooked. The American fascination with criminals who fight the rule of law. 

Trump is an accused criminal. 

You’d think that would disqualify him but this is American democracy. Americans like criminals who fight against authority:

In the 1930s the battle of machine gun toting bank robbers like Bonnie & Clyde & John Dillinger vs the FBI had admirers on both sides.

 

Dillinger courted publicity. The media printed exaggerated accounts of his bravado and colorful personality, and described him as a Robin Hood.[1][2][3] In response, J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), used Dillinger as a rationale to evolve the BOI into the Federal Bureau of Investigation, developing more sophisticated investigative techniques as weapons against organized crime.[1]

After evading police in four states for almost a year, Dillinger was wounded and went to his father's home to recover. He returned to Chicago in July 1934 and sought refuge in a brothel owned by Ana Cumpănaș, who later informed authorities of his whereabouts. On July 22, 1934, local and federal law-enforcement officers closed in on the Biograph Theater.[4] When BOI agents moved to arrest Dillinger as he exited the theater, he tried to flee, but was shot; the deadly shot was ruled justifiable homicide.[5][6]"

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John Dillinger

The founding fathers didn’t imagine international organized crime. Organized crime that in some countries rivals government rule by law or a country like Russia where organized crime is government. 

The Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act RICO is what we have to fight organized crime. 

The entire Republican Party appears to be a Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization ruled by Crime Boss Trump. Something not imagined by our founding fathers.

The public face created by Donald Trump is a strongman mobster face. But one thing that mobsters like John Gotti did was bringing tons of cash into their criminal enterprises.

New York Attorney General Letitia James has proved in court that unlike the Gotti Organization the Trump Organization has continuously lost money. 

New York Attorney General Letitia James & the State of New York put an arrow into the heart of Trump’s public face. His business is perpetual fraud. He lost the 1/2 $ billion his mobbed up dad gave him. Trump’s lifetime is losing. 

The New York Times

Trump Assails Judge and Concedes a Role in Valuing His Empire’s Property

The former president, who also railed against New York’s attorney general in front of a packed courtroom, denied he committed fraud and called the trial “very unfair.”

Nov. 6, 2023

Kate Christobek, Maggie Haberman, Nate Schweber, Liset Cruz, Claire Fahy and Susanne Craig contributed reporting.

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“John Gotti and his big mouth and his use of the media turned a secret society into a national spectacle. So, I think that If anybody is responsible for the downfall of the mob, it’s not me, it’s not the FBI, it’s not the other prosecutors, it’s John Gotti.’ Laura A. Ward Federal Prosecutor.”

"The trial was a travesty -- they could have convicted the Pope," Michael Strippoli, a 49-year-old retired jewelry salesman from Queens, said angrily outside Federal District Court in Brooklyn, where John Gotti had just been sentenced to spend the rest of life in jail.

"There is something dangerous going on in America," he said. "Look at what they got away with in the Rodney King thing. We Italians are a minority too, and we have to stand up and say this is wrong."

That anger erupted yesterday outside the courthouse in downtown Brooklyn as a chanting crowd of supporters of Mr. Gotti -- the police estimated the group at 800 to 1,000 -- rushed barricades and scuffled with the police. A handful of demonstrators, who arrived in 12 chartered buses, smashed car windows and flipped a gray Pontiac onto its hood on the sidewalk of Cadman Plaza East. 

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New York Times

For Gotti's Supporters, Disbelief and Anger

June 24, 1992

When John Gotti went down the entire Italian Mafia in the United States eventually went down. 

Trump’s big mouth will take him down. And When Trump goes down the entire Republican Party will go down. 

Trump is a perpetual loser. Not a mobster, a fake mobster. 

“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."

Trump had a personal connection to some of the city's most powerful mobsters through his friend, mentor, and lawyer Roy Cohn. Cohn, who's these days remembered as one of the most malignant figures in 20th century America, was an attorney for mafia leaders including "Fat Tony" Salerno, Carmine Galante, and Paul Castellano, bosses in the Genovese, Bonanno, and Gambino crime families, respectively.

When the future president's now-famous 5th Avenue Trump Tower was being built in the late '70s and early '80s, most high rises were constructed out of steel. But Trump opted to build with ready-mix concrete, at a time when Salerno and Castellano controlled the concrete industry and its associated labor union.

Ready-mix concrete dries quickly, which can leave developers vulnerable to expensive worker slowdowns, a common tactic from mob-controlled construction sites. While other developers were urging the FBI to take down the mafia, Trump bought its concrete at artificially high prices. According to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston, who's known and covered Trump for 30 years, Trump received in exchange a smoothly-operating worksite from the construction union.

According to a former Cohn employee, Trump and Salerno met face-to-face at Cohn's townhouse. Trump has denied the meeting ever occurred, but Salerno was later indicted on racketeering charges for an $8 million concrete deal made for a Trump development.

And the construction of Trump Tower is far from the only endeavor in which Trump has been accused of striking deals with organized crime. He reportedly bought the land on which he built his Atlantic City casino for twice the amount the lot was worth from a Philadelphia mafioso who was the son of Philip "Chicken Man" Testa, who's known to music fans from the lyrics to Bruce Springsteen's "Atlantic City." When Trump attempted to build a casino in Australia, that nation's authorities blocked his efforts on the grounds of his "mafia connections."

Trump hasn't denied knowing organized crime figures. During a 2013 appearance on David Letterman's late night show, he admitted to having met mobsters "on occasion."

"They happen to be very nice people," he said. "You just don't want to owe them money.”

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Esquire 

True Story of Donald Trump's Mob Ties in Fear City: New York vs. the Mafia

For years, the president did business in industries with strong mafia ties.

By Gabrielle Bruney.   PUBLISHED: JUL 22, 2020