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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Fri Jun 15, 2018, 03:34 PM Jun 2018

Just saw the movie Gotti. There are two scenes that remind me of you know who

There's a scene where John Gotti is in prison, having just been sentenced to five consecutive life terms, and is being visited by his wife and she confronts him with the fact their son John Gotti, Jr.who is now the acting boss is being targeted by the Feds. She asks him why he brought him into this business. He says it's all lies. His wife says it's on the front page of all the newspapers. Gotti says it's all lies or as POTUS calls it fake news. As an aside I don't believe for a minute his wife didn't know her son was in the family business.

In another scene Gotti and one of his underlings are discussing the hit on Paul Castellano that Gotti engineered. Gotti blamed it on the police

In another milieu Trump would have been a mobster, albeit a feckless one. Ditto for his pal, Giuliani. In another milieu Giuliani would have been a mobster but more likely a consiglieri.

Critics don't seem to like it. Maybe because they see it as a hagiography of Gotti. Hey, we have a mobster in the White House.

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Just saw the movie Gotti. There are two scenes that remind me of you know who (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2018 OP
You don't do business in NYC the way Trump did without ties to the mob htuttle Jun 2018 #1
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htuttle

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1. You don't do business in NYC the way Trump did without ties to the mob
Fri Jun 15, 2018, 03:40 PM
Jun 2018

I would contend that he wouldn't 'have been' a mobster in another milieu -- Trump is a mobster in this milieu. He just runs real estate and money laundering scams instead of numbers rackets.

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