>

Tongue chewing mook. As connected as he bosts. He knew full well.
That's gotta be bad for his reputation, hasn't it? What self-respecting organized crime lord would want to be seen with Trump? >

It’s the only place Don can get a loan. >

From Deutsche bank to Douche bank >

Yea but Hunter was reading emails on a tarmack somewhere during an oil coke orgy with Chinese-Ukrainian hookers so can we Benghazi back to what is important here? >

And 45 stored hundreds of classified documents even top secret ones in his basement where all the Russian, Chinese, Israeli spies could just walk in to and out and read them through. So stop with this hunter shit while the guy you are defending has had more dead people on his sleeve than Americans dieing in WW2. >

i believe they were being sarcastic but still hard to tell because there are peps that think this way >

I was and yes, it is. 
Worst timeline, gl! >

Hot, hot hot hot >

Didn't Sater also carve up someone's face with...I want to say a margarita glass? >

Trump is now trying to Make Russia Great Again >

Trump's aura of lies and incompetence make anywhere he is measurably worse. He could make America slightly greater again by simply leaving, right? >

No it doesn't. Trump spent his entire career tooling around with fellow slimeballs, this is well known. 
Almost anyone closely associated with Trump has shady foreign business deals and/or criminal convictions >

Right? Every headline makes it sound like a surprise when this clown is doing something predictably awful, or associating with the exact kind of people we expect him to associate with. None of it is shocking, none of it is a surprise, there is no rock bottom for this man, just an endless, infinite well of sludge. Why is anyone pretending to be surprised? When this man is still roaming free several years after trying to stage a violent coup to overthrow democracy and insert himself as some kind of sad emperor. Why is he still free? After multiple, in-depth investigations, full of more smoking guns and forensic evidence, witnesses, and guilty co-conspirators than you could fill a stadium with. In what world does any of this make sense?!? >

"I can't see this picture very well. What is it?" -- Garland >


Merlino and Trump, the Inquirer said, “share an affinity for golf and an aversion to cooperating witnesses who ‘flip’ to help federal investigators”.

lol >

The crazy part is they have quotes from the both of them to support this claim. It’s so outlandish that it almost can’t be real. >

Appeals to his base. They love mobsters and fantasize being them. >

im dony sobrano
woke up in mornning got meself a gun >

Booka chookala >

gabgool >

Hamberders >

It raises answers >

how does anything this man ever does still raise questions? >

I have no questions. Trump was a property developer in New York and New Jersey. He not only knew actual mobsters but he paid them off. He had to or the concrete doesn't show up or maybe your job site has a little fire... The man owned casinos in Atlantic City. Fahgettaboudit. >


The man owned casinos in Atlantic City

Correction, he bankrupted all those casinos, which is a staggering achievement for a casino owner. 100% Taj mahal was used for money laundering.(great podcast series covering all his numerous crimes and stupid businesses)
It's hard to say when he wasn't involved with mobsters

But Trump was not clean as a whistle. Beginning three years earlier, he’d hired mobbed-up firms to erect Trump Tower and his Trump Plaza apartment building in Manhattan, including buying ostensibly overpriced concrete from a company controlled by mafia chieftains Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno and Paul Castellano. That story eventually came out in a federal investigation, which also concluded that in a construction industry saturated with mob influence, the Trump Plaza apartment building most likely benefited from connections to racketeering. Trump also failed to disclose that he was under investigation by a grand jury directed by the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, who wanted to learn how Trump obtained an option to buy the Penn Central railroad yards on the West Side of Manhattan.

Long article detailing numerous mob dealings. >

It’s my pet peeve that people say “trump bankrupted a casino” as a sign of his business incompetence.  And I don’t mean that to defend him/ the truth is even worse in my opinion- but it’s simply false.
What really happened is that he made the casino issue loans to his other businesses to such an extent that the casino (casinoS plural- as he did this three times at least) could no longer afford its own obligations and had serious cash flow issues causing them to be insolvent. 
Once the casinos went under, his other businesses didn’t have to pay back the loans. 
But all that initial money didn’t come from him in the first place- it was all from outside investors in the casinos and banks loans to the casinos so he literally just essentially stole all the money from one company (the casino- and by extension investors and banks) and put it into his other companies.  That’s sinister, not incompetence (which again, I think is even worse). >


That’s sinister, not incompetence (which again, I think is even worse).

I'd argue incompetence. A casino is a proven massive cash cow, but if you kill the cow, no more cash, which is what he did.
He could have continued to launder money and collect a handsome fee on top of the casino profits and been Steve Wynn instead of Steve Wynn.
Alas, now he has his name on one hotel in Vegas, in a shitty location, that can't obtain a gaming license to build a casino because of Trumps mob ties and his past in Atlantic city. >

I can’t believe I haven’t heard this point before. I think I agree with it and have never thought of it that way, which forces me to reevaluate this pet peeve of mine.
It’s still false that to say his casinos failed from pure mismanagement, but I’m now open to seeing how what happened is indeed incompetence.  He’d STILL be printing money from them, as you point out, if they still existed. >

Ah, the eternal question over how to best define Trump: criminal or idiot? Philosophers will debate the issue for decades to come. 
My answer to this is usually: it doesn't matter. At sufficiently high levels of either stupidity or corruption, the two become indistinguishable from each other, at least in terms of observable impact. Trump has definitely crossed that threshold. Either characteristic should be disqualifying for him ever regaining any amount of authority over others. >

Headline: Mob boss has picture taken with wanna be mob boss (twice impeached) >

Were they fellow travelers on a cart? >

Does it really though? >

Doesn't raise questions with the people who SHOULD be questioning their loyalty to an inveterate con man
He can literally tell his base and Republicans in office "I'm a liar and I hate you" and he'll still have the loyalty of 70% of them.
If Trump was discovered in a locked room, holding a smoking gun, covered in blood, and standing over the fresh corpse of a paraplegic who could not have possibly been any threat to Trump, then his voters would blame the dead person for forcing Trump to shoot them.
Then when Trump said he didn't do it they would prolly blame Hillary >

Per standard Operating Procedure. Start with Fake News. As questions are asked and further evidence is revealed, transit through several intermediate retrenchments. End with So Take Me To Court. >

Christ on a crutch... I though that had to be a fake quote.
That dude honestly doesn't even have a bar anymore. >

Normally, he wins his championships by:
"“Trump’s going around telling people he has won 20 [club championships],” Reilly said elsewhere in the interview. “But that’s 100 percent a lie. I actually played with him once, and he told me how he does it: Whenever he opens a new golf course, because he owns 14 and operates another five, he plays the first club champion by himself and declares that the club championship and puts his name on the wall.”" >

Not a surprise. 
Trumps pal Roy Cohn was a mob lawyer. 
Kellyanne Conway's grandfather was linked to the mob. 
Don McGahn's uncle Patrick McGahn had mob ties. >

Oh yeah, Roy Cohn who Trump was buds with until Cohn got AIDS and Trump abandoned him. >

Roy Cohn, who trained Trump in how to act like a mob boss to avoid consequences. >

No it really doesn’t “raise questions” about this man anymore. The only “question” is why is he not indicted and still allowed to terrorize this country with his lies. >

Oh, come on.  Anyone who half paid attention to the society pages in the 90s knew Trump diddled little girls at his famous sex and drug parties, laundered money for the Russians and hobnobbed with the Mafia.  Remember the photo of Trump and Joey "No Socks" Cinque together on stage at Trump's Mar-a-Lago New Years Eve bash in 2017?  Trump is a criminal.  Has been for decades.  Treat him like one. >

Has our wonderful mainstream media ever dug into the identities of these people who were apparently always hanging out at Mar-a-Lago before, during and after Trump was president? >

We already know the answers to those questions. He's a criminal fuck supported by gullible simpletons >

Oh my God, gullible simpletons is the perfect description >

"Trump’s golf course photo with Philadelphia mob boss raises questions" The only question it raised is which of them cheated more on the course. >

I just know that Trump refers to him as "Joe Mafia" because he either can't remember or can't pronounce his name. >


Trump’s golf course photo with Philadelphia mob boss raises questions

The problem is none of those questions are new. >

The real problem is his Republican peers have displayed on at least 2 occasions that they can stick their fingers in their ears and ignore questions/evidence/convention to kiss the orange ring >


to kiss the orange ~~ring~~ ass

But yeah agree. >

...Trump’s golf course photo with Philadelphia mob boss raises questions...
No.... It provides answers. >

A guy who made his fortune in construction in NY and NJ is tight with mobsters and may even owe them some “favors”??  Who’da thunk it? >

Fuck you. His criminality is omnipresent. Any questions raised are answered with Occam’s razor.   YES. He’s a criminal. Where are you Merrick Garland?! >

Looks like he might be in the market for flipper fixers. >

It certainly should >

I wonder what Trump’s mob nickname is. John Gotti was the Dapper Don so I respectfully submit as my suggestion “the Diaper Don”.
No disrespect. >

Does it raise questions?  Seems like par for the course to me.  Pun intended ;) >

Yes questions, when is this fucker finally getting indicted? >

Questions like: are they finally gonna charge him with something? Will his rich and powerful ass ever see the inside of a jail cell? Will the Democrats actually get him this time? The answer to all of them is no, because the oligarchs protect their own. >

No it doesn't. >

They can stick their stupid  thumbs right up their corrupt asses. >

Skinny Joey and Fat Donnie: The Laurel and Hardy of organized crime. >

Idk why this is a surprise to people. Trump is a real estate mogul and the Mob has its hands in multiple revenue streams, including development >

Raises? You mean answers. >

Does it raise questions? What question?
Is anyone questioning if he associates with criminals? Does anyone question is he conspires to commit crimes? Does anyone question if Trump is a criminal?
If you’re still questioning those things at this point you’ve been living under a rock. >

Um, he had to know who he was, maybe not because they have a history, but at minimum the secret service would not let a total stranger near him.  They know who he was.   Give me a break. >

It doesn't, though. He's been involved with the mob since the 80's. What the fuck do you think his casinos were for? He was a money launderer for the mob. >

Isn't this a good picture/situation to use to remind people that Trump had (progeny still has) classified documents all over his garbage country club? Who knows what other shady characters have been around Mar A Lago? >

Wait,I know this song: "I have no idea who that is. I take pictures with a lot of people. I never met him" >

My favorite part of the article:

Merlino and Trump, the Inquirer said, “share an affinity for golf and an aversion to cooperating witnesses who ‘flip’ to help federal investigators”. >

Does it matter if it raises questions? Nothing will ever happen to this man. >

The only question it raises is why do people still support this fucking criminal? >

RAISES QUESTIONS!?
Those of us with at least ONE brain cell between our ears have had this question, AND SO MANY MORE since 2016. Now here we are, SEVEN years later, and we're getting headlines such as, "raises questions."
Classic. >

I think we all know douchewad thinks he's Tony Soprano >

Famous shady NY real estate developer with known Russian contacts and a history of casino business in Atlantic City takes photo with philadelphia mob boss and the question is if he knows him? Lol… >

I swear every time I see a MAGA hat the lettering is getting bigger >

The guy walks around his Palm Beach club like Mickey Mouse taking photographs with guests. I doubt he had any idea who the guy was when he took the photograph. Having dinner with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes is a different story though. >

Memory problems? >

We already have the answers to these questions. >

Holy shit, a rare pic of him without his self-applied makeup! >

How does your country’s government and law enforcement know he’s a “mob boss” yet he’s out playing golf as a free man? >

Well that's a change...usually he's seen with Russian mafia. >

Wouldn't it be funny if the mob took Trump down before the DOJ?
The irony of the ages. >

Does it raise more questions than it answers? >

That is weird.  He’s always been with the Bonannos I thought. >

That's a pretty embarrassing photo, not so much because of who the other people are, but rather because Trump looks frail & disoriented...it's totally plausible that he had no idea who those other people even were: Just two guys, paying a visit to an elderly relative in the nursing home...perfectly normal, happens every day...
How was Trump supposed to know they were criminals...just because they're Italian? >

“They happen to be very nice people” Trump referring to mobsters. (Sounds familiar)
“You just don’t want to owe them any money. Don’t owe them any money” 
Things that make you go hmmmm..... >

Googled:   Joey Merlino     
Holy shit he even looks like a Hollywood mob boss.  Perfect casting right there. >

Damn, trump looks like old dog shit. I'd be surprised if he's still on "this side of the lawn" in 2024. >

But...but....he only hangs with the best folks! >

A mob boss and a wannabe mob boss. >

Oh. More questions… I see. Seems like whitey “richy” Criminal is a good career path given legal repercussions over long haul. /s (?) >

Yeah, that mob boss could be in trouble. Consorting with known crimnals. >

He probably owes them money!🤣 >

Raises questions? Wtf. He's a criminal so it fits >

Trump's not the news here. But why is there a known Mob Boss loose in society and not apprehended and charged? I don't get this. Well I do, but I don't. >

FBI still trying to find out who put a noose in a NASCAR garage.  Still looking for the Epstein clients list.  Still trying to find out who leaked Supreme Court opinions. >

The search continues, you forgot bigfoot and lochness. >

Game recognizes game. >

But the contents of Hinter Bidens laptop doesn't. Message received. >

I cant wait to hear how his base will try to flip this into something positive. Funny >

No questions… Just answers really! >

I guess this is news, since mob bosses usually fight each other for territory. >

Must be looking for a future pardon. >

They aren't new questions, but they are questions. >

Perhaps Trump is just looking for new career opportunities.. >

Questions?  Like why isn't the orange mobster behind bars. That's one valid question. When will Republicans admit that they are in love with a criminal?  There's another one. >

In my deepest fantasies, Trump was meeting with Skinny Joey to get tips on serving a prison sentence. Hey, a girl can dream... >

Not questions, they’re confirmations. >

Wasn’t he always associated with mafia bosses in New York, the Republican Party will become like Putin’s mobster state sponsored administration like it was denying the election loss of 2020, not getting his taxes released, mafia bosses get special favours while corrupting all of government like he did, a return of a presidential candidate with mafia connections will be interesting the second time around as he places people’s heads on the chopping block. I will bet he won’t be charged also because it will not connect to him, as they fall from windows and commit suicide. Something to look to forward to. >

The twice impeached, disgraced, former President has ties to the mob. More news at 8. >

Don’t start with these “raises questions” headlines again. We’re past this. >

Who else hangs out with dirtbags then claims he doesn’t know them? >

Birds of a feather.....??? Did they exchange recipes? >

Hey, anyone ever think that as vindictive as Donny is that how hard would it be for someone to drop some live rounds in Alec Baldwins rust set  He used to make fun of Donny all the time he ran for president because what Obama said about him and you gonna tell me he gets caught with classified documents, and all of a sudden Biden gets caught with them, and in places where people can plant them And not trying to put some conspiracy theories out there but I don’t believe in coincidence either >

What Questions??? 
Most of us know who he is !!!! >

How does anyone still have questions about this man and who he might be seen with? >

Does it? For who? >

Do better, Joey >

I 100% believe he took this photo having no clue it was Joey Merlino, Joey's face is like "I can't believe this idiot doesn't know who I am" and the other toolbag is a complete toolbag I mean look at him.
This photo is the perfect illustration of how incompetent this clown is. >

You'd think this would raise a red flag among his rabid supporters, but nope, it's just media hammering on their god. >

He’s got pictures with his kids and Epstein I’m pretty sure mob boss is pretty low on the list of questionable acquaintances. >

Well it’s not surprising, he himself is a greasy, flaking mobster. >

Hope he ends up not paying back his loan sharks. >

Who still questions this shit? He's been doing it since before I was born. >

What a fucking stain. >

This raises zero questions. Move along… >

Lol I don't think I have any questions 🤣 >

What questions? Looks about right to me. >

Donald Trump been a confirmed criminal for quite literally half a century now, at this point he could announce that he himself is the Philadelphia mob boss and our government would continue to let him ride off into the sunset without issue >

That’s all it ever does. >

Does it, though? I’d argue it provides more answers than questions. >

No it doesn’t >

Why would this of all things raise questions? >

No it doesn't.
It provides answers. >

The question I have is simple;

Why isn't this traitor at least under some form of house arrest? >

He’s also in love with several murderous dictators— is this supposed to be shocking? >

Oh please…. He could be seen with Satan himself, and no one would blink an eye. 
We expect no less from him. >

To whom? Because those of us who think he should be in jail are waiting. And his MAGA faithful still believe he can do no wrong. A mob boss is gonna mob boss. Questions? Let’s get to the answers already. >

WE KNOW HE'S A MOBSTER.
JFC. This willful ignorance by the media is just destroying America. >

Trump is Russian mob plain and simple. >

Add him to this amazing list of world leaders like Bolsanero, Edrogan, and the Saudis who’ve all dropped by POST presidency. 
A former mob boss is a pretty tame coincidence at this point. >

Raises questions my ass. At this point Trump could be seen with Satan himself eating babies on the 9th hole and Republicans wouldn’t bat an eye. >

It doesn’t raise questions, we all know what he is. >

How does this raise questions? It’s pretty much expected from him at this point. >

You know what would be pretty funny?  If he was there because he "won" the meet and greet via Trump's NFTs, which would all but confirm it was a money laundering scheme to put mob money into Trump's campaign funds. >

So this is what’s raising questions? >

What is the question? That he is a criminal who consorts with criminals. Not an astounding find. RICO Giuliani for sure provided the ties to these goons. >

Once again the former ass allows these type of people in his presence. >

At least Merlino knows how to make money on gambling in A.C. >

What questions?  Nothing we didn't already know. >

Not so much as it answers. >

It raises zero questions. We know what this is about; money and power.