Why Trump can't give up being a Mobster

[Quixote1818]

Interesting listening to this guy. He says being a mob boss was better then being a movie star because of the power. He also still brags about being good at being a crook which reminds me of Trump narcissism.

[Yavin4]

1. That mobster, Anthony Casso, died of covid this week while in jail

Anthony Casso:

Death came to Luchese family underboss Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso exactly where the feds wanted — in their custody, far from the end of his 455-year prison term.

Casso died Tuesday at age 78, the government said. Casso’s death, caused by complications relating to the coronavirus, came two weeks after the Daily News reported that he caught COVID-19.

He caught the virus at his Arizona federal prison in November and his lawyers desperately filed a motion for compassionate release as he lay in a Tucson hospital on a ventilator. Casso and two other men have died of COVID-19 at the prison in the last four days.

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-mobster-anthony-gaspipe-casso-death-20201216-35ykrc6d6jdqnj4ttmebmwjmde-story.html

[matt819]

2. This mobster died on Tuesday.

I'm reading A Brotherhood Betrayed, about Murder, Inc., in NYC in the 1930s.

Truly nasty, vile people. But interesting reading.

[Blue Owl]

3. tRump is the most blobby mobster

[ChicagoRonin]

4. Once and always

I think a lot of people would like to believe that mobsters are like Michael Corleone; that maybe they just got caught up in the life and deep down have some sense of morals or personal regret. But, I don't think that's the truth most of the time.

"Goodfellas" comes to mind. To me one of the most telling things in the closing lines of that movie is that the main character (based on a real-life mobster) only regrets no longer enjoying the benefits of his criminal life, not the crime itself.

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[empedocles]

5. Brings to mind 'Sammy the Bull' Gravano'', who was freed from prison for flipping on

Boss Gotti. Free, and with paid for witness protective service - couldn't help but go back to his 'former life . . . and prison cell.'

[UTUSN]

6. Yip, we've been pegging DRUMPF as a Mobster/Cartel with links out there for years, and

somehow, despite how much of just his personal crap has gotten play, all the Mob documentation has not gotten play.

This particular murderous creep kept saying he didn't feel anything for the victims and their families, but when he got around to talking about his own daughter he blubbered. Ed asked my question, after masterfully letting him go full blubber, what about the victims' families. And the Mobster went back to I-didn't-know-them-don't-care.

There's a whole trove about DRUMPF having been part of the deal when the Russian Mafia bought into the American Mob, "part of the deal" meaning included/bought in the package, not meaning that he "made" the deal in which case it would have fallen through, haha.