He allegedly made The Don a suggestion he refused.
Infamous former mob hitman and turncoat Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano lauded former President Donald Trump as a “gangster” this week — and claimed he repeatedly tried and did not grease his palm many years in the past.
“You’ll be able to’t bribe him. I do know that as a child rising up. I used to be within the mob, I attempted to bribe him, by no means labored. By no means, by no means labored. And it was helpful to him, he simply wouldn’t do it,” Gravano informed his greater than 600,000 YouTube subscribers.
The well-known mobster stated private monetary acquire is “the furthest factor from [Trump’s] thoughts.
“What’s on his thoughts is to straighten the nation out. And I don’t care if it’s a person or a girl, whether or not they’re handsome, ugly, skinny, fats, I don’t care about none of that — what coloration they’re. I care about their insurance policies. Trump is a businessman, his insurance policies are nice, he’s a troublesome man,” Gravano stated.
“I’m gonna name him a gangster. We want a gangster,” he stated of Trump, whose former spouse Ivanka known as him “The Don.”
It wasn’t the primary time Gravano praised Trump’s refusal to be purchased.
Earlier this yr in an interview, the ex-president shared a clip of the previous mob underboss claiming, “I attempted to get him, he simply wouldn’t chunk” on Instagram and thanked Gravano for his help.
Gravano rose by way of the ranks to turn into underboss of the Gambino crime household earlier than placing a deal by which he testified as a authorities witness towards dozens of fellow mobsters together with Gambino boss John Gotti — a okay a the “Dapper Don” and “Teflon Don” — and consigliere Frank LoCascio, who in 1992 have been each despatched to jail for all times with out parole on the energy of his testimony.
The Bull himself was given a five-year jail time period — regardless of confessing to involvement in 19 murders — earlier than briefly coming into the federal Witness Safety Program.
In 2002, after being indicted on federal drug costs together with his son, Gerard, Gravano was sentenced to twenty years in jail in New York and 19 years in Arizona, to be served concurrently. He was launched in 2017.
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