TyroneSlothrop
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Just what were Donald Trump's ties to the mob?
The Trump Taj Mahal casino resort is seen in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on May 8, 2016. The Trump Taj Mahal casino resort in Atlantic City | Jewel Samad/AFP via Getty Images
No other candidate for the White House this year has anything close to Trump’s record of repeated social and business dealings with mobsters, swindlers, and other crooks. Professor Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian, said the closest historical example would be President Warren G. Harding and Teapot Dome, a bribery and bid-rigging scandal in which the interior secretary went to prison. But even that has a key difference: Harding’s associates were corrupt but otherwise legitimate businessmen, not mobsters and drug dealers.
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The Trump Taj Mahal casino resort is seen in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on May 8, 2016. The Trump Taj Mahal casino resort in Atlantic City | Jewel Samad/AFP via Getty Images
No other candidate for the White House this year has anything close to Trump’s record of repeated social and business dealings with mobsters, swindlers, and other crooks. Professor Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian, said the closest historical example would be President Warren G. Harding and Teapot Dome, a bribery and bid-rigging scandal in which the interior secretary went to prison. But even that has a key difference: Harding’s associates were corrupt but otherwise legitimate businessmen, not mobsters and drug dealers.
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