Will Bunch: John Gotti would have OK'd the Trump-Vance mob hit on Zelensky [View all]
“Trump comes from a New York where the mafia, business, and politics were intertwined,” Ganz wrote in an essay last year. “The political bosses — Donald Manes and Meade Esposito — the Trump family relied upon to clear construction projects were fully tied into the mob. And if Trump has a political theory at all, it’s one developed in this formative period of his life: the system is just an interlocking series of rackets and ‘this is just the way the world works.’”
It took the twists and turns of three long decades, but Trump is now the boss, and he seeks to rule America not like the 44 presidents who came before him, but like the mobster who once competed with him for the Post’s daily front page. You see it in his Teflon Donald ability to duck prison, his skimming of tributes for his “legitimate businesses,” but mainly in his all-encompassing need to display domination. John Gotti taught Trump to whack your opponents in front of the whole world, whether that’s during rush hour in midtown Manhattan or live on CNN, and to dare his rivals to come for the king.
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