Former President Donald Trump posed for picture with former Philly mob boss Joey Merlino

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Were they comparing notes?


They share an affinity for golf and an aversion to cooperating witnesses who “flip” to help federal investigators.

But former president Donald Trump and former Philly mob boss Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino don’t have much to say about how they wound up in a photo together at a South Florida golf course.

Trump posed for the photo with Merlino earlier this month at Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach. The two, along with an unidentified third man, flash Trump’s customary “thumbs-up” hand signs and smiles while wearing golfing attire.

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/donald-trump-joey-merlino-philadelphia-mob-photo-golf-club-20230123.html

[cilla4progress]

1. Truly the world is being run by a multinational

crime ring with no loyalty to any country but to each other.

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. They think they are their own country.

Loyalty only goes one way in organized crime.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

3. Because, of course...

“Tiny Hands” Trump, they call him.

[PCIntern]

4. I'm from Philly and have known/treated some of this crew.

No comment.

[cilla4progress]

6. No comment?

[PCIntern]

7. Nope

[cilla4progress]

8. Why bother

posting anything in reply, then? All it does is create intrigue.

Sorry...flummoxed...don't mean to offend.

[PCIntern]

9. Well...

First of all, sometimes what is left unsaid speaks volumes. And that is the point of my post – that there really is not much else to say that is terrible and everybody gets a picture or should. This so-called former president is meeting with disgraced fifth level Philly mobsters who were stupid enough to threaten an FBI agent’s family. It’s about as low as it gets and the old mob here would just be revolted by these idiots’ behaviors, if these guys hadn’t murdered them all first.

[cilla4progress]

11. Ok, thanks.

Sorry to be annoying.

Appreciate it.

[Johnny2X2X]

5. Mob movies

Mob movies, starting with the Godfather, I believe have caused great harm to society by romanticizing mobsters. There is nothing noble about organized crime. The individuals engaged in it are lazy cowards who exist in their communities as parasites who take from hard working people. There's nothing noble about shaking people down for money, there's nothing noble about loan sharking or sex trafficking. The mob doesn't leave behind anything for regular people, they take everything for themselves. It's a bunch of sick lowlifes, Don Corleone was a totally made up portrayal.

A former president pictured a mobster who is a mass murderer, who sold cocaine, who was involved in schemes to steal money from health insurers in Florida. Etc etc. He's pure scum. Getting pictured with him should be looked down on the same as getting pictured with a famous pedophile is. Just disgusting people.

[BlueTsunami2018]

10. In fairness, I doubt Тяцмр even knows who Merlino is.

He poses with anyone as long as they don’t touch him. It’s not a good look but I don’t think it’s a big deal.