"King has been investigated for possible connections with organized crime. During a 1992 Senate investigation, King invoked the Fifth Amendment when questioned about his connection to mobster John Gotti.[18] In public, however, King has strongly denied any connections to organized crime and has responded to mob allegations by calling them "racist".[citation needed]
Donald Trump and the MobHis real-estate developments in Atlantic City and New York brought the GOP nominee into regular contact with people who had ties to organized crime; he says he's 'the cleanest guy there is' Referring to a concrete contracting firm that law enforcement said was affiliated with one of New York's Mafia families, Mr. Trump said: "That was a major contractor. You hear stories that they may have been [mob-controlled]. " WSJ
His audacious personality and opulent properties brought attention -- and countless players -- to Atlantic City as it sought to overtake Las Vegas as the country's gambling capital. But a close examination of regulatory reviews, court records and security filings by The New York Times leaves little doubt that Mr. Trump's casino business was a protracted failure. Though he now says his casinos were overtaken by the same tidal wave that eventually slammed this seaside city's gambling industry, in reality he was failing in Atlantic City long before Atlantic City itself was failing.
But even as his companies did poorly, Mr. Trump did well. He put up little of his own money, shifted personal debts to the casinos and collected millions of dollars in salary, bonuses and other payments. The burden of his failures fell on investors and others who had bet on his business acumen." NYTimesMike Tyson, the former undisputed World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, says of his former manager, "(King is) a wretched, slimy, reptilian motherf*cker. This is supposed to be my 'black brother', right? He's just a bad man, a real bad man. He would kill his own mother for a dollar. He's ruthless, he's deplorable, he's greedy ... and he doesn't know how to love anybody."[19]
I think the same could be said of Trump by those who have been ripped off by him, by the slave labor he uses to build his 6 billion golf/villa in Dubai (and whose passports have been seized so they cannot return home until they pay off their travel expenses from Pakistan, which they cannot because they are paid only half of what promised and just barely survive...see Vice Documentary), and by many of the 60% of Americans who disapprove of him.
Birds of a feather flock together. Trump sees in King not only a black brother who will show that "The blacks love me," but a kindred criminal, able through his ruthlessness and wealth, to buy off those he defrauds, able to live above the law while committing crime after crime,.
We are so used to this that even when Trump appears with a convicted murderer, with a history of organized crime and fraud, there is no mention of the obscenity of such a photo op, where both men defended Israel and blasted critics, only more publlicity by a master of propaganda.
Where is the liberal media? Where is the religious right? Where are the good people of America outraged at this embrace by a convicted murderer? I understand why the blind sheep Trump bragged about take this with a grain of salt, but what about the 60% who disapprove? When welcoming the support of murders has been normalized, how far are we from accepting mass murder as normal?
To America, I say: Have you no shame? When we do not challenge lies and outrages, we are complicit. That big sign that King wore around his neck at the photo-op should have had instead of the bloated face of Trump the letter M for murderer.
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(Article changed on December 30, 2016 at 18:20)
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